Integrating BIM and agent-based modelling for construction operational optimization - a LBS approach

The need to manage complexity, and the current necessity of interventions on existing buildings to provide project and construction methodologies and tools capable to support them in a proficient way. With the scope to define in advance the places occupied by workers to accomplish a task, is defined a methodology and a related tool to integrate Building Information Modeling (BIM) with an Agent-Based simulation of workers. The goal is to know as early as possible: where it is possible to work in a productive and safe way; how it is possible to be more efficient placing in the same working space different working phases; when is possible to allow the continuity of building operations.