Mendes, J R; Fernando, L; Heineck, M and Vaca, O L (1998) New applications of line of balance on scheduling of multi-storey buildings. In: Hughes, W (ed.) Proceedings of 14th Annual ARCOM Conference, 9-11 September 1998, Reading, UK.
Abstract
New practical applications of the Line of Balance technique are presented, introducing simple and transparent tools for initial planning, short term scheduling and production control on multi-storey building construction sites. These developments were being conducted along an investigation on some construction sites on Brazil. The planning methodology is discussed including preplanning details and the control. Two new computational models are briefly presented, the first one a knowledge-based system used for initial planning and the other one a spreadsheet model used for on site short term scheduling and control. This research aimed to develop simple scheduling and control techniques as well the use of simple computational tools. The practical applications carried out on building sites demonstrates that this goal is being achieved. The use of this methodology also permits the learning process of a construction company to grown quite fast due to the use of information from previous projects and a detailed formal preplanning.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | buildings; expert systems; line of balance; scheduling; software |
| Index terms: | Brazil, production control, construction site, building site, knowledge-based system, building construction, construction company, line of balance, spreadsheet, computational model, scheduling, methodology, investigation, expert system |
| Subjects: | building construction, data management, research methods, site and location studies, Geography, work location, modelling and simulation, operations research, project delivery, artificial intelligence, data science, organization, data collection methods |
| Topics: | Construction Technology, Business Strategy, Research Practice, Project Management, Geographical Context, Time Control, Site Management, Digital Applications |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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