A Review on Methods for Generating As-built Building Information Models

The use of as-built Building Information Models (AB-BIM) has dramatically increased over the past decade. Their use spans from visualisation to feasibility studies and from environmental analysis to refurbishment and maintenance. Currently, an AB-BIM is created by laser scanning a facility and manually modelling the acquired point cloud. The modelling process, however, is tedious and time consuming and necessitates experienced personnel. This paper presents an extensive literature synthesis on generating As-built BIMs. The literature survey showed that modelling can be automated through two distinctive steps: (a) object detection and (b) modelling, where each step is performed using different methods. This paper examines each step separately and divides it into subcategories based on the methods used. The review concludes that even though state-of-the-art methods have promising performance, they are focused mostly on restricted and simple scenarios, such as rectangular rooms. Therefore, limited progress has been achieved for more complicated facilities, where there is a high number of objects and occlusion. For those, no formal and/or universal approach exists.

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