Modular composite building in urgent emergency engineering projects: A case study of accelerated design and construction of Wuhan Thunder God Mountain/Leishenshan hospital to COVID-19 pandemic

Ling-Kun Chen; Rui-Peng Yuan; Xing-Jun Ji; Xing-Yu Lu; Jiang Xiao; Jun-Bo Tao; Xin Kang; Xin Li; Zhen-Hua He; Shu Quan; Li-Zhong Jiang

doi:10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103555

Modular composite building in urgent emergency engineering projects: A case study of accelerated design and construction of Wuhan Thunder God Mountain/Leishenshan hospital to COVID-19 pandemic

Autom Constr. 2021 Apr:124:103555. doi: 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103555. Epub 2021 Jan 22.

Authors

Ling-Kun Chen^{1

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3}, Rui-Peng Yuan¹, Xing-Jun Ji⁴, Xing-Yu Lu¹, Jiang Xiao¹, Jun-Bo Tao⁵, Xin Kang¹, Xin Li⁶, Zhen-Hua He⁷, Shu Quan⁸, Li-Zhong Jiang⁹

Affiliations

¹ College of Civil Science and Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225127, China.
² School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610031, China.
³ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593, USA.
⁴ Jiangsu Zipi Engineering Technology Co. LTD., Jiangsu Donghai 222322, China.
⁵ School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China.
⁶ China Construction Fifth Engineering Bureau Group Co., LTD., Anhui branch, Hefei, Anhui 230001, China.
⁷ Central and Southern China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Company Ltd, Hubei, Wuhan 430010, China.
⁸ China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Group Co., LTD., Wuhan, Hubei 430064, China.
⁹ School of civil engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410075, Hunan, China.

Abstract

Wuhan Leishenshan/Leishenshan ("Leishenshan" for short) hospital is a makeshift emergency hospital for treating patients diagnosed with the novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia (NCIP). Engineering construction uses modular composite building finished products to the greatest extent, which reduces the workload of field operations and saves a lot of time. The building information model (BIM) technology assists in design and construction work to meet rapid construction requirements. Besides, based on the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) data analysis and application platform, digitization and intelligence in engineering construction are improved. Simultaneously, on-site construction and overall hoisting were carried out to achieve maximum efficiency. This article aims to take the construction of Leishenshan Hospital as an example to illustrate how to adopt BIM technology and other high-tech technology such as big data, artificial intelligence, drones, and 5G for the fast construction of the fabricated steel structure systems in emergency engineering projects.

Keywords: Accelerated design and construction; Building information model (BIM) technology; Light steel structure; Modular composite building; Off-site building modular units; Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); Wuhan Leishenshan hospital.