Standards Development

Scope

This standard defines the identification, data, information services, application guidance aspects, and applicable requirements of AIDC technology for different items and their hierarchy in Industrial Construction during their whole life-cycle.

Standardization in the field of industrial construction excluded:

— Technical product documentation (TPD) (covered by ISO/TC 10);

— Buildings and civil engineering works (covered by ISO/TC59);

— Doors and windows (covered by ISO/TC162)

— Steel and aluminium structures (covered by ISO/TC167) 

Purpose

Traditional construction has lagged behind other sectors due mainly to the interrelated issues of the rising costs, lengthy duration, massive pollution, and the shortage of skilled construction labour. Industrial construction (or modular construction), the rapidly growing sector of construction, could be an effective solution for addressing these issues. Industrial construction is shifting the construction business to the off-site manufacturing-style industry like the automobile. It covers all aspects of making a building which includes the process of making construction items such as components, parts, roofs, windows or connectors from raw materials in plants, transportation, storage, shipping to the final place of construction, assembly in the proper order and position, maintenance and, potentially, demolition and material recovery. According to McKinsey report, the market value of industrial construction could reach $130 billion in Europe and the United States by 2030. However, the current digitalization level of industrial construction is low, and the standards mainly focus on the building information modelling rather than physical item management, and the unsolved problems are:

1) Manually data capture. The physical components and items in construction are mainly managed manually and recorded by paper and pen. The digitalization of the industrial construction is hindered by the inefficient, non-real-time, delayed, and inaccurate item-related data capture and collection.

2) Identification unification. The participants of construction projects started to identify the items with a private or self-defined identification system. Digital identities for the same physical entity or item are represented redundantly across multiple systems, creating redundant “personas” that are systemspecific, incomplete, and non-reusable.

3) Data record and sharing. The item-related data and status of components are mainly defined, recorded, and managed by separate systems, and are not accessible to business partners. The new meta data schema should be created to standardize the information records of the real physical items as a complementary to BIM standards. The API and intraoperative method should also be defined to link the separate systems with AIDC technology.

AIDC technology is the main technology for item and asset automatic identification and data capture since 1970s. AIDC and its globally standardization are the cornerstones of the digital economy and society. This project would draft the international standards for AIDC application in Industry construction, and it would stimulate the consciousness of digital transformation of construction and infrastructure globally.

AIDC could essentially improves the productivity and accuracy of engineers and workers during all construction processes such as production, transportation, storing, assembling, maintenance and recycling. It could also reduce material waste, creates safer working conditions, and reduces operational energy for participants of construction and society. It would diminish counterfeiting and bring tangible benefits to the end-users just like it did in the past 50 years in the retail, healthcare, and logistic industries. 

Traditional construction has lagged behind other sectors due mainly to the interrelated issues of the rising costs, lengthy duration, massive pollution, and the shortage of skilled construction labour. Industrial construction (or modular construction), the rapidly growing sector of construction, could be an effective solution for addressing these issues. Industrial construction is shifting the construction business to the off-site manufacturing-style industry like the automobile. It covers all aspects of making a building which includes the process of making construction items such as components, parts, roofs, windows or connectors from raw materials in plants, transportation, storage, shipping to the final place of construction, assembly in the proper order and position, maintenance and, potentially, demolition and material recovery. According to McKinsey report, the market value of industrial construction could reach $130 billion in Europe and the United States by 2030.

However, the current digitalization level of industrial construction is low, and the standards mainly focus on the building information modelling rather than physical item management, and the unsolved problems are:

1) Manually data capture. The physical components and items in construction are mainly managed manually and recorded by paper and pen. The digitalization of the industrial construction is hindered by the inefficient, non-real-time, delayed, and inaccurate item-related data capture and collection.

2) Identification unification. The participants of construction projects started to identify the items with a private or self-defined identification system. Digital identities for the same physical entity or item are represented redundantly across multiple systems, creating redundant “personas” that are systemspecific, incomplete, and non-reusable.

3) Data record and sharing. The item-related data and status of components are mainly defined, recorded, and managed by separate systems, and are not accessible to business partners. The new meta data schema should be created to standardize the information records of the real physical items as a complementary to BIM standards. The API and intraoperative method should also be defined to link the separate systems with AIDC technology.

AIDC technology is the main technology for item and asset automatic identification and data capture since 1970s. AIDC and its globally standardization are the cornerstones of the digital economy and society. This project would draft the international standards for AIDC application in Industry construction, and it would stimulate the consciousness of digital transformation of construction and infrastructure globally.

AIDC could essentially improves the productivity and accuracy of engineers and workers during all construction processes such as production, transportation, storing, assembling, maintenance and recycling. It could also reduce material waste, creates safer working conditions, and reduces operational energy for participants of construction and society. It would diminish counterfeiting and bring tangible benefits to the end-users just like it did in the past 50 years in the retail, healthcare, and logistic industries.