The safety impetus for the adoption of reality capture for remote virtual site inspections
Year: 2023
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: In Australia, building surveyors and inspectors perform statutory duties of mandatory inspections. Some of these duties involve making firm decisions with serious implications. In recent years, there have been at least two attempted murder cases against government officials carrying out their duties: a building inspector and an environmental officer. The increasing complexity in which building surveyors/inspectors operate in hostile environments requires a radical rethink of in-person inspections. The state of Victoria is at the cusp of making major changes that could relocate the majority of building inspection work currently undertaken by private building surveyors and inspectors, to be within the council in the next one to two years. This makes it all the more pertinent that there be delineation between the role of the person on site and the person having a statutory decision-making function away from risk. Reality capture technology has not been customised for building inspection use, where it is vital to capture the construction process at multiple timed intervals. This chapter challenges the present requirements for in-person mandatory inspection against the possibility of undertaking the ubiquitous capture and inspection of the built environment.
Source: Routledge eBooks
Language: English
Subfield: Geology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4366455723