ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an investigating on how a visualised Virtual Reality (VR) model is experienced and assessed by the workforce at a building site. It provides insight of the basic information flow requirements. The use of VR offers one possible solution. However, there has been little empirical investigation of VR technologies by companies in the construction sector. The most common way of distributing technical information at a building site is by means of 2D computer aided design drawings. M. Roupe et al. examined how users experienced a detailed VR model of an office building. The VR model used was a prototype of “Centralhuset”—a hotel and office block completed in Gothenburg, Sweden, in November 2003. The main goal of the study was to establish whether a VR model could be a practical and reliable information tool at the building site. The VR model focused primarily on the supporting structure, the foundations and the prefabricated floor components of the building.
