Desai Jigar Bimal

CM4050

Construction sites are prone to several safety hazards; various measures are tried, tested and taken by numerous organizations to ensure safety, although hazards continue to prevail and induce injuries and deaths of construction workers. The development of construction site layouts and safety plans is an important part of an integrated process, but it is usually done by manual observation, which is error-prone and ineffective, and building designers and safety coordinators still lack a collaborative working style. Because there are insufficient structures and facilities for controlling safety. The aim of this project is to develop a virtual reality training tool to enhance safety on construction sites with respect to error prone site layout planning, also, it aims to develop a tool that can train workers of the construction site to be able to identify potential hazards as a part of induction training. Through development of immersive smartphone virtual reality application supported on android platforms, the project was validated through content validation process and assessment of three most important characteristics of virtual reality. Analysis of feedback of experts on the experience of virtual reality application states a result indicating development of the application with high level of immersion and user interaction, and leaves scope of improvement in development of real-time 3D environment.