The application of simulation modelling in making operational decisions in construction

Abstract

The emergence of new organizational methods such as controlling, including strategic and operational-production, is a response of investment and construction activities to new challenges generated by the development of science and technology, as well as socio-economic conditions. The need of society, as a kind of aggregated customer of capital construction projects, is to reduce the cost, duration of their construction, improve the quality of buildings and structures. Achieving such results is possible through the use of new materials, equipment, technologies. However, the conditions for the construction of a specific facility, the current operational situation are conditioned by the presence of disturbing influences of both technical and managerial nature, and which must be stopped in time and, if possible, prevented. Thus, a toolkit is needed that involves the implementation of the functions of analysis, monitoring, but also the development and even adoption of operational technical and managerial decisions. It is on these principles that operational and production controlling is based. The adoption of appropriate tactical decisions is the central point in the organization of operational and production controlling in construction production, and also the fact that the real tasks of organizing construction are not always fully solved analytically. One of the promising ways can be the use of optimization methods in combination with simulation models and the provisions of the theory of experiment planning. The article proposes to consider the use of simulation modeling when optimizing the calendar schedule for the implementation of a complex of construction and installation works, carried out in the process of operational and production controlling.