A simulation-based method for effective workface planning of industrial construction projects

Di Hu, Yasser Mohamed, Hosein Taghaddos and Ulrich (Rick) Hermann

Construction Management and Economics, 2018, vol. 36, issue 6, 328-347

Abstract: The generation of well-defined and moderately sized field installation work packages for the construction workforce, referred to as workface planning, has been recently employed to plan large-scale industrial construction projects under tight schedules. However, traditional CPM-based scheduling of several thousand work packages (e.g. 5000 activities multiply by 10 work packages per activity on average) is a tedious, error prone process. Defining proper logics and controlling congestion among work packages crossing several work areas, and also effective resource allocation over time are other major challenges in workface planning. This paper presents a novel simulation-based framework to implement workface planning for large-scale industrial construction projects. This framework proposes a time-stepped discrete event simulation-based modelling for dynamic resource allocation based on congestion and other constraints on the job site. The proposed method is demonstrated and tested against traditional CPM-based solutions based on an actual case study.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2017.1390241

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