African Design Magazine ADM #39 April 2018 | Page 26

TECHNOLOGY
4D
APPLICATIONS
OF GIS
IN CONSTRUCTION
MANAGEMENT
A. Chaitanya Kumar (KL University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, Andhra
Pradesh, India) and T. Reshma (Department of Civil Engineering, KL
University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India)
C
onstruction industries
broadly involve different set
of construction activities
which are to be executed as per
schedule and the major software
used for scheduling is PRIMAVERA
and Microsoft Project (MSP). But
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the software still lacks a feature
of providing spatial aspects of
information in construction
schedule.
Recently, advanced technology like
4D GIS have played a major role