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Recently Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been widely used to manage building information throughout the project life-cycle more effectively and efficiently. Particularly in quantity take-off and estimation, BIM-based process is getting more and more attention, and even BIM-based quantity take-off at the most detailed level has been performed in several building projects in South Korea. The practitioners involved in those projects have pointed out that modeling rough and finish interior of a building occupies a big portion of time in the whole modeling process and the manual modeling for interior is error-prone, which could cause serious result, such as wrong cost estimation and disputes. To resolve the problem, this research proposes an automated modeling method that model a building interior automatically after selecting an interior method by a room or space basis. This research develops a interior modeling method and a system that can model various rough and finish interior components automatically at once after a user select the type of interior for a given space or room. To do so, this research identifies typical interior types of buildings and a house built in South Korea, and develops a mechanism that can support modeling both typical and non-typical types of interior by allowing the flexibility in selecting interior material and components and the order of construction process for the selected items. The automated modeling system for building interior has been preliminarily tested at a typical condominium building project and found that the system could improve dramatically the productivity of BIM-based quantity take-off and estimation process.

This research presents the integration of 4D CAD with RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology to improve the progress management process. The objective of this research was to build an effective and efficient project progress management framework by integrating 4D CAD with RFID technology under a collaborative environment throughout the supply chain of a construction project. This research proposes a system, named 4D+RFID, that presents building elements in 3D CAD models according to as-built progress, where the as-built information is collected in real-time by sensing the progress throughout the supply chain using RFID. 4D+RFID developed in this research aims at supporting processes with a focus on structural and curtain wall elements, such as steel columns and beams, concrete slabs, and curtain walls, which are typically on the critical path of project schedules in high-rise building construction projects. The process is that RFID is applied to sense the progress status of ordering, delivery, receiving, and erection of building elements, and then the as-built progress information is presented in 3D CAD models. 4D+RFID is under development for use in a high-rise office building construction project in downtown Seoul, Korea.