Gray, C (1986) Intelligent' construction time and cost analysis. Construction Management and Economics, 4(2), pp. 135-150. ISSN 01446193
Abstract
The subject of’buildability' has got to the point where it is known that it is advisable to involve the contractor in the early stages of the design process. However, this is very difficult to achieve unless a contract is formed between the parties, which may not be desirable in that it limits competition. The research described in this paper attempts to resolve this problem by taking the knowledge used by the contractor and making it available to the design team through an Intelligent Knowledge Based System (IKBS). In essence it has meant that a deeper understanding of the methods used by contractors to analyse the problems and risks inherent in a design has to be achieved. The work has generated the first step in this understanding by developing the rules of activity identification, thus enabling models of the construction process to be created for subsequent evaluation.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | buildability; estimating preliminaries; expert systems; planning; time prediction |
| Index terms: | construction time, buildability, knowledge-based system, expert system, time prediction, competition, design team, construction process, estimating, preliminaries, cost analysis, design process |
| Subjects: | building construction, professional practice, market analysis, design methods, design efficiency, project controls, operations research, data management, artificial intelligence, financial and cost management |
| Topics: | Research Practice, Digital Applications, Design Practice, Cost Management, Site Management, Time Control |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
N.B. Descriptive scope is a count of how many of the five facets of empirical research are indicated by the words used in title, abstract and keywords. It is not intended as a judgement on the research; merely a count of the kind of word we would expect to indicate Phenomenon, Concepts, Theoretical framing, Empirical techniques, Analytical techniques. If all five are present, then a code of “5 PCTEA” will indicate this. If you feel the coding for this record is questionable, we welcome discussion around the terms we matched or the way we categorized them. The facet you would expect may not be coded, or a facet may be coded inappropriately. This can also bear on a larger question, of which facets should be treated as defining in construction management research. Please get in touch, and we will look at it. More details here