Multi-skilling as a possibility of compensating the unrhythmic working load

This paper describes a simulation system for evaluating different management strategies inside construction firms. Within this context, the paper addresses the problems of identifying the most efficient forms of labour specialisation and work organisation, including reasonable forms of payment to workers in order to adopt their skill bases. The organisational and technological conditions of the constructing process are taken into account in form of network models. The main problem is providing the flexibility of the model towards the workers' professional structure in the firm. By changing the parameters in the models of the buildings and the models of the resources of a constructing firm, the different building situations are created. The economical evaluation of executed experiments are represented in the goal function of the building enterprise activities in the Model of economic assessments of calendar plan. The result of research shows the dependence of cost price on the number of combined trades. The paper concludes by assessing the economic benefits of using multi-skilled workers.