Interactive And Immersive Training In A Virtual Environment For Construction Students

Construction projects involve a wide range of operations and activities, most of which can lead to accidents if proper care is not taken. The most serious construction accidents involve construction equipment operation, trench and embankment failure, falls from elevated positions, collapse of temporary structures and forms, and the failure of structures under construction. 1 Tragic construction accidents have had catastrophic consequences. The collapse of the Quebec Bridge during construction in 1907, in which 74 men were killed, is considered one of the worst tragedies of the century. In recent years, 51 people were killed during the construction of a cooling tower in West Virginia, and another 113 died when walkway bridges collapsed in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency Hotel.