Today's work

1. Finish the executive summary of the PhD Proposal

2. Search papers related to my research and read the paper from Carl Haas and a paper from Burcu (About the impact of new data collection technology on data collection and transfer process for timely construction management, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management)

3. Find a paper from Martin Fisher: Formalizing Product Model Transformations (This paper might be important for me to understand how to extend IFC bridge information model to support inspection goal decomposition since it transforms design centered model into a construction activity centered model through three mechanisms introduced by the authors, I can transform the IFC bridge model to a surveying activity centered model so that bridge inspection goal will be transformed into a series of measurement activities to generate inspection goal value: such as the value of the under clearance of a bridge, we can decompose it into measurement of the bottom surface of the super structure and the measurement of the top surface of the road underneath the bridge).

Idea:

From the bridge function(cross river or valley or another highway, we can navigate to the road underneath the bridge, and then from the attribute of the bridge such as how big vehicles are allowed to run on it we can simulate the process that the biggest allowed truck passing under the bridge and to see whether the bridge's under clearance is satisfactory). This reasoning process is transparent, because it is not just specify a limit value for the under clearance, it shows the design intent behind the under clearance limitation values.