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BIM-enabled Health & Safety analysis of Cross Laminated Timber onsite assembly process

  • a Tsvetomila Duncheva , 
  • b Samer BuHamdan ,
  • c Robert Hairstans ,
  • d Mohamed Al-Hussein  
  • a,c Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • b,d University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Cite as
Duncheva T., BuHamdan S., Hairstans R., Al-Hussein M. (2018). BIM-enabled Health & Safety analysis of Cross Laminated Timber onsite assembly process. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Modeling & Applied Simulation (MAS 2018), pp. 136-145. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2018.mas.021

Abstract

There is a global need for sustainable urban housing and offsite timber systems such as Cross Laminated Timber construction can be part of the solution to this need. However, the health and safety (H&S) impacts of CLT installation technologies have not yet been investigated utilising BIM enabled. This research project used a case study method to analyse the constructability of CLT panels installation and a System Dynamics (SD) simulation model was construed to analyse workers’ time spent using hand tools for prolonged time, with potential health impacts. The results demonstrated that CLT installation H&S impacts could be correlated to CLT connections specification. These findings shine new light on Design for Safety (DfS) considerations for CLT medium rise construction with regards to social sustainability, in the context of urban residential buildings.

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