{"62954":{"#nid":"62954","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building Construction Students Place in ASC Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBuilding Construction undergraduate students Brianna Holcomb and Roya Agharahimi were part of the winning team in the 2010 Associate General Contractor\u2019s shadow student competition and received the award for best presentation in October. The competition, held in Birmingham, Alabama, allowed students to collaborate with peers from\u0026nbsp; Auburn University and the University of Florida\u0027s Building Construction Programs heavy civil engineering project. Ms. Holcomb and Ms. Agharahimi are sophomores in the School of Building Construction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERegion 2 of ASC includes 17 universities in the Southeastern United States. 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The three-year project titled \u201cReciprocal Reconstruction and Recognition for Modeling of Constructed Facilities\u201d (NSF Grant #1031329) is an interdisciplinary project done in collaboration with Professor Patricio Vela from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe motivation behind this research project stems from the need for viable methods to map and label existing infrastructure. The National Academy of Engineering recently listed Restoring and Improving Urban Infrastructure as one of the Grand Challenges of Engineering in the 21st century. Two of the greatest issues that cause this grand challenge are the need for more automation in construction, through advances in computer science and robotics, and the lack of viable methods to map and label existing infrastructure. Over two thirds of the effort needed to model even simple infrastructure is spent on manually converting surface data to a 3D model. The result is that as-built models are not produced for the vast majority of new construction and retrofit projects, which leads to rework and design changes that cost up to 10 percent of the installed costs. Any efforts towards automating the modeling process will increase the percentage of infrastructure projects being modeled and, considering that construction is a $900 billion industry, each 1 percent of increase can lead up to $900 million in savings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ctable border=\u00220\u0022 cellspacing=\u00220\u0022 cellpadding=\u00220\u0022\u003E\u003Ctbody\u003E\u003Ctr\u003E\u003Ctd valign=\u0022top\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/td\u003E\u003C\/tr\u003E\u003C\/tbody\u003E\u003C\/table\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Brilakis joined the School of Building Construction in Spring 2009 and holds a joint appointment with the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering; he is the Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.citl.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EConstruction Information Technology Laboratory \u003C\/a\u003E(CITL) at Georgia Tech. In 2010, he received the prestigious NSF CAREER \u0026nbsp;Award for his project \u201cCAREER: Visual Pattern Recognition Models for Remote Sensing of Civil Infrastructure,\u201d a five-year project to enable automated, model based recognition of construction objects. 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The event will be held from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on Georgia Tech\u2019s campus in the Student Center Ballroom, located on the 3\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E floor.\u0026nbsp; All\u0026nbsp;College of Architecture students interested in full-time positions, internships and co-ops are invited to attend.\u0026nbsp;Representatives from local and national companies will be on site.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAttending companies are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBarton Malow\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHardin Construction\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHITT Contracting\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHolder Construction\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETurner Construction\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWinter Construction\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EForrester Construction\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECablik Enterprises\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EManganaro Midatlantic\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESkanska\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAMEC\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENew South Construction\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFTI Consulting\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBrasfield \u0026amp; 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