Research Statement: Planning and operation in today's infrastructure, building, construction, and other domains lack automated communication and distribution of
key essential information among project stakeholders. Tracking the location and status of site resources in real-time, understanding the spatial environment, and monitoring,
analyzing, and recording site activities and conditions are a few of the facts that become increasingly important to base decision making on solid information content.
Dr. Jochen Teizer is the director of the Real-time Automated Project Information and Decision Systems (RAPIDS) laboratory which is located in the
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. The RAPIDS laboratory is supported by various public
and private funding sources and specializes on construction safety and technology research and education in the construction, mining, transportation, and
infrastructure sectors. RAPIDS also designs new-prototype and validates commercially-existing data sensing and processing technologies to improve the performance
of these industries.
Presently, the research group concentrates on real-time pro-active safety warning and alert technologies,
equipment blind spot measurement, operator visibility tracking, wireless 3D real-time resource location tracking, 4D (building) information modeling and processing, site layout management,
and an inference management framework with major focus on real-time pro-active safety, health, and work activity monitoring and sampling.
