GIS in Construction Management

The information required for construction quantities surveying is not only generated by various participants in different construction phases but also stored in different forms including graphics, text, tables, or various combinations of the three. To report a bill of quantities BOQ and other documents, project manager has to continuously excerpt information from various resources and record it on papers. Without adequate staff and time, this repetitive and tedious process is difficult for the project manager to handle properly and thus reduces the effectiveness and the accuracy of the quantities surveying process which creates problems during the design, tender, and construction supervision of construction projects. Hence, automation quantity surveying system has been developed by using GIS to extract the data required for the quantity of different components of any construction project from AutoCAD drawings, to report a BOQ. This book present the main applications of GIS in construction projects for project managers, contractors, whom participate in construction projects, and who may be considering in integrating GIS and construction management .