Although personnel entering a construction site are mandated to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), hardly ever is PPE checked for accurateness, completeness, or whether its shelf-life has ...expired. Various commercially-existing automated identification (ID) and information technologies (IT) were used to design a mobile Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) portal for checking the PPE compliance of personnel. When such gates are positioned at the entrance or within construction sites and once low-cost passive RFID tags are embedded or attached to PPE, automatic site access, time recording, and completeness control can be performed. These improve the logistics of the existing compliance checking process and provide users with timely feedback. Results to “personnel entering a construction site” demonstrate how the safety process, especially the awareness among personnel wearing PPE, can be pro-actively managed and controlled. Data further suggests the limitations of the developed approach and its potential for gathering leading safety indicator data.
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•Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is hardly ever checked at job site entrances.•A mobile passive RFID portal that checks PPE compliance is introduced and explained.•It improves PPE control and management and provides rapid feedback to personnel.•A user interface enables pro-active safety education and learning for the workforce.•Field applicability and use in other areas (security/search & rescue) are explained.
Today, modern technologies and methods of the improvement of the digitization in Germany – e.g., the application of the Radio Frequency identification (RFID) technology also in connection with the ...method of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) – find increased implementation in construction economy and real estate economy in Germany. For many years, the research team of the Chair of Construction Management & Economics of the Bergische University of Wuppertal has dealt with the development of those modern technologies and methods. Now these subjects are transferred into new education and training programs. These programs are based and further developed on the present knowledge. For the education of students in Germany, different study drafts will be developed in cooperation with the Jade University of Oldenburg. Construction engineers and architects will be taught a process-oriented method with the use of BIM, integrating the application of modern technologies comprehensively along the life cycle of buildings. Furthermore, within the research project “BIM-based construction with RFID technology”, there was developed an integrated teaching demonstration module which shows the data exchange and data consistency in the life cycle of buildings very clearly. For a period of 2 years, this specific demonstration module will be presented to the public and different institutions, like educational centers, universities, building contractors and developer of the industry. An international comparison of these attempts offers interesting aspects concerning any transference potential. The conference contribution will contain the first results of new drafts for integration of modern technologies and methods in the education and training for the construction and real estate economy in Germany.
