TY - GEN

T1 - Digitalization in the Construction Industry: The Case of Documentation and Invoicing in Tunneling

AU - Melnyk, Oleksandr

AU - Huymajer, Marco

AU - Huemer, Christian

AU - Galler, Robert

PY - 2023/7/25

Y1 - 2023/7/25

N2 - The digitalization of Architecture, Engineering, & Construction (AEC), specifically the tunneling sector, often lags behind other sectors. Today's invoicing process of tunneling projects frequently involves many manual and paper-based tasks, which are error-prone and time-consuming. Accordingly, replacing this with a fully digital process, from the tunnel face to the project owner, bears high economic potential. This article proposes an integrated digital documentation system for tunnel construction management and invoicing. A month-long case study with data from a real-life construction site is conducted to test the system's suitability. The managed data are exported to commonly used enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for invoicing and compared to actual invoicing data. The case study has shown that the proposed approach is practical and helped streamline and improve the construction documentation processes in conventional tunnel construction. The proposed solution represents an incremental contribution to the digital transformation of the AEC sector.

AB - The digitalization of Architecture, Engineering, & Construction (AEC), specifically the tunneling sector, often lags behind other sectors. Today's invoicing process of tunneling projects frequently involves many manual and paper-based tasks, which are error-prone and time-consuming. Accordingly, replacing this with a fully digital process, from the tunnel face to the project owner, bears high economic potential. This article proposes an integrated digital documentation system for tunnel construction management and invoicing. A month-long case study with data from a real-life construction site is conducted to test the system's suitability. The managed data are exported to commonly used enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for invoicing and compared to actual invoicing data. The case study has shown that the proposed approach is practical and helped streamline and improve the construction documentation processes in conventional tunnel construction. The proposed solution represents an incremental contribution to the digital transformation of the AEC sector.

KW - Digitale Transformation

KW - Dokumentation

KW - Produktion

KW - Tunnelbau

KW - Software

KW - Zeitmessung

KW - Aufzeichnung

U2 - 10.1109/CBI58679.2023.10187588

DO - 10.1109/CBI58679.2023.10187588

M3 - Conference contribution

SP - 1

EP - 10

BT - 2023 IEEE 25th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), Prague, Czech Republic, 2023

ER -