Abstract
Urban-line infrastructure projects encounter the installation of new pipe networks for water, sewage, gas, heating and their resulting maintenance operations. Often such kind of projects are characterized by inaccurate information of the layed pipes in terms of their location, geometry and type. In the literature, only a few Augmented Reality practical applications in construction have been identified. This confirms the fact that guidelines, best cases and standardized implementation models are still missing for a successful roll-out of this technology in construction. In this article, we propose a feasibility study of Augmented Reality to support
the maintenance of a heat-district installation project as case study. By using a S.W.O.T. analysis, the strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats of Augmented Reality in these contexts were investigated. Future research activities will focus to support the creation of digital models as well as to have a bi-directional information flow between AR and real construction sites.