GIS Based Projects Information System for Construction Management

This paper explores the potential of geographic information system environment indeveloping a construction project information system for rate analysis, safety and qualitycontrol recommendations for different activities. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is arelatively new branch of information technology for managing the spatial and non-spatialdata and can effectively be used to develop a database related to construction resource and safety and quality control recommendations for possible construction activities. ArcView 3.2, which stores all data sets in tabular format, is used in present study. Resource data for materials, labours, equipments, recommendations for safety and quality control are stored in the different tables and separate tables are used for each construction project for rate analysis. Scripts using avenue language are added to the GIS software enabling the planner to access and manipulate the available database, which finally helps in speeding up the decision making process. This paper suggests that the proposed GIS based methodology may replace the manual methods to extract the information from the available database and can easily be updated as most of the information is in digital format.