Implementing A Simultaneous Construction Model To Educate Undergraduates In Collaboration

One of the goals in Construction Management is to educate students to become successful construction managers who need both technical knowledge and management skills. But most of Construction Management programs teach students techniques or management separately, and then students can not understand abstract construction management skills easily without practices. A Simultaneous Construction Model based on online collaboration and 3D visualization is presented in this paper, and on this model students work together effectively from design phase through construction phase in several cases. From this model, students learn how to collaborate in construction engineering.