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The development of innovative digital design and fabrication tools for materialprocessing and manufacturing of complex and non-standard forms, apart fromtheir advantages, have brought a number of challenges. These might be related tothe effectiveness and sustainable potential of implementation associated withenvironmental, cost and time-related parameters, particularly in cases of largenumber of elements construction and complex assembly. Augmented Reality (AR)is an emerging technology with great potential for implementation in theconstruction industry, since it can enhance the real world with additional digitalinformation, and thus, can assist towards manufacture and assemble of theseparticular systems. This study presents an AR methodology for assembling amodular shading device and discusses the advantages and disadvantages that thisapplication can bring to the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC)industry by taking into account precision and construction time issues based onthe handling of the process by skilled and unskilled users/workers. Our aim is toinvestigate the potential implementation of AR in the assembly, and consequently,in the construction process as a whole. Also, this study aims at exploring existingconstraints of the technology and suggests ways of improvement.