Utilizing virtual environments in construction projects
Lauri Savioja, Markku Mantere, Iikka Olli, Seppo Äyräväinen, Matti Gröhn, Jyrki Iso-Aho · 2003
Construction projects can gain major benefits from application of virtual environments. The virtual reality techniques help designers to communicate with each other, as well as with the decision makers and with the end-users. In the future, the whole product model of a new building should form one virtual building, which can be efficiently investigated utilizing virtual environments. In this article we present some basics of virtual reality technology, and the required software and hardware components from the viewpoint of a construction project. The main emphasis of the article is in the description of the construction project of a new lecture hall at the Helsinki University of Technology, and how a virtual environment was utilized in that project.