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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Construction Planning"”.
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Optimizing the construction planning of highway work zones
… multi-objective models for optimizing the planning of highway work zones that are capable of striking an optimal balance among the critical and often conflicting objectives of maximizing work zone safety, maximizing traffic mobility, and minimizing construction cost. To accomplish this …
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Optimizing the construction planning of airport expansion projects
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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A contextual AR model based system on-site construction planning
The creation of an effective construction schedule is fundamental to the successful completion of a construction project. Effectively communicating the temporal and spatial details of this schedule are vital, however current planning approaches often lead to multiple or misinterpretations of the …
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A Work Package-Based Process Model for Petrochemical Construction Planning
This study examines the planning and control of petrochemical plant construction projects and the impact of work packaging on planning. This study was accomplished primarily through interviews with various levels of people in the business of building petrochemical plants. This study indicated that …
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Improving construction planning practice in Saudi Arabia by means of lean construction principles and techniques
… project management that could lead to delay in construction projects and seeks to provide practical solutions. Its main aim is to improve construction planning practice by implementing practical solutions to eliminate or reduce the impacts of causes of delay in Saudi Arabia. It begins by …
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An Investigation into a Distributed Virtual Reality Environment for Real-Time Collaborative 4D Construction Planning and Simulation
… Aided Design (4D CAD) is growing within the construction industry. 4D approaches have been the focus of many research efforts within the last decade and several commercial tools now exist for the creation of construction simulations using 4D approaches. However, there are several key …
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Factors for generating initial construction schedules
Schedule generation is a vital construction planning tool which is founded on experiential knowledge and on engineering and management procedures. In this dissertation a Knowledge-based Systems (KBS) approach is followed for acquiring, formalizing and representing construction scheduling knowledge.
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How differences in heavy civil project set-up practices impact performance
The life cycle of a construction project traditionally involves five phases: procurement, pre-construction planning, execution, closeout, and maintenance. The second phase, pre-construction planning is broad in nature yet vital to achieving a successful project. This study is unique in its focus on …
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Multi-Objective Optimization for Large-Scale Highway Construction Projects
… the advancement of current practice in highway construction planning and can lead to: (1) an increase in the efficiency of resource utilization in highway construction projects which can ultimately produce significant savings in public expenditures; (2) a reduction in the duration of highway …
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Environmental considerations of pipeline installation methods through watercourses
… disturbance is created during pipeline construction. This thesis aims to understand the decision-making tools utilized during pipeline construction projects in the oil and gas industry where new pipeline construction is traversing watercourses along a pipeline route. Case studies were …
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Dynamic Planning and control Methodology : understanding and managing iterative error and change cycles in large-scale concurrent design and construction projects
Construction projects are uncertain and complex in nature. One of the major driving forces that may account for these characteristics is iterative cycles caused by errors and changes. Errors and changes worsen project performance and consequently, cause schedule and cost overruns to be prevalent. …
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Descriptive analysis of construction scheduling data towards automation of 4D building information modeling
The integration of construction planning and scheduling into Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows is still evolving. The common workflow to integrate the fourth dimensional (4D) of BIM still relies on the ability of manually linking construction activity tasks with 3D BIM-based objects. …
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Case study for identification and evaluation of construction innovations: the Hotel Georgia project
Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) projects are becoming more complex in terms of client requirements, stakeholder issues, physical, budget and time constraints, and safety and environmental concerns. These constraints have spawned ad-hoc innovations in some AEC projects, without …
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Guiding diffusion generative models with applications to inverse problems
… a novel application of conditional generation in construction planning services, in collaboration with our industry partner, nPlan. Using DDMs, we leverage text data from construction project schedules to estimate activity durations within a schedule generation pipeline. Additionally, we quantify …
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Exploring construction process simulation as part of the digital twin concept in real-world contexts
The construction industry faces problems like low productivity, poor resource efficiency, and cost overruns. Several factors cause these problems. Each building is a unique product, constructed by changing teams on temporary sites under constantly changing conditions. Although operating sequences …
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An automated dynamic site layout planning system : a case study of Egypt
One of the serious tasks in the construction planning was the site layout planning as it had a considerable effect on construction sites. However, in practice site layout planning was often ignored or overlooked due to its complexity. Project Managers often performed a site layout planning based on …
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Decision support model for the combined transportation and utility construction strategy
… The adjustment of utilities prior to highway construction is a particularly complex and challenging operation. Because of its complexity, managing utility adjustment is fraught with risk and uncertainty. One major strategic approach that has emerged over the past 15 years is to combine utility …
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Optimizing highway reconstruction and rehabilitation projects
… networks. Significant financial and construction resources are needed to complete the highway reconstruction and rehabilitation projects required to repair these aging and damaged transportation networks and bringing them to acceptable levels. The lack of sufficient resources to …
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Natural language processing and learning-based methods for enhancing automation, alignment, and interpretability in model-driven planning, monitoring, and control of construction projects
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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