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GAINING END USER INVOLVEMENT THROUGH VIRTUAL REALITY MOCK-UPS: A MEDICAL FACILITY CASE STUDY

The use of construction mock-ups have become common practice to validate design and work through constructability challenges. The use of physical mock-ups offer significant benefits as a communication tool amongst the project team but must be balanced with a potentially large costs to construct. With the advent of many new virtual prototyping technologies, project teams now have the potential to perform mock-ups in virtual environments. This paper will present a case study of a 14,000 m 2 (150,000 ft 2 ) medical office construction project which used both physical and virtual mock-ups to allow the facility to meet end-user needs with minimal re-work during the on-site construction. The virtual mock-up was carried out using the Immersive Construction Lab at Penn State to review a rendered model of single occurrence space in the facility. The paper will demonstrate the end-user and construction team feedback about the virtual mock-up processes and the benefits and challenges it presents.