Abstract
Construction scheduling, in practice, commonly relies on the usage of commercial project management tools (PMT) without specific optimization features. To obtain optimal schedules, planners often need to develop separate optimization models with special tools, which, however, demand further processing and editing of optimization results by PMT into forms expected for project management. In this regard, separation of optimization and PMT also requires considerable additional work for complete and harmonized updating of schedules during construction execution. Mentioned drawbacks and lack of available time may take to deficient construction scheduling during the implementation phase resulting in poor or even insufficient realization of project goals. Therefore, this paper presents an achievements survey on the integration of optimization and PMT that allow sustainable construction scheduling, particularly in terms of continuous optimal time and resource allocation throughout the project life cycle. Such work has not yet been comprehensively done up to now and the present contribution intends to fill a literature gap in the aforesaid area. Following a brief introduction, the optimization platform for construction scheduling is given in the article. Focusing on construction scheduling, an in-depth achievements survey on the integration of heuristics methods, mathematical programming and special solving methods with conventional PMT as well as optimization-based building information modeling (BIM) tools is then performed and findings are reported. The paper ends with conclusions and recommendations for further research.
Highlights
Sustainable construction can be recognized as the practice of creating facilities and applying procedures that are environmentally sound and resource-efficient throughout the life cycle of a building from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction [1]
Liu et al [57] established an automated system to solve RCPSPs that consists of three main components, i.e., (i) input module in MS Access with resource information and work breakdown structure (WBS); (ii) building 3D design created in Autodesk Revit; and (iii) schedule generated in MS Project
This paper presented the achievements survey on the integration of optimization and project management tools (PMT) that allow sustainable construction scheduling, in terms of continuous optimal time and resource allocation throughout the project life cycle
Summary
Sustainable construction can be recognized as the practice of creating facilities and applying procedures that are environmentally sound and resource-efficient throughout the life cycle of a building from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction [1]. A method to transfer data from the data source to the problem’s mathematical model is necessary, as pointed by the authors [12] Another shortcoming of the aforementioned models is that the optimization results demand further processing and editing by PMT, providing forms and formats anticipated in the project management. In this regard, separation of optimization and PMT requires considerable additional work for complete and harmonized updating of schedules during construction execution.
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