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A Framework for Design of Panelized Wood Framing Prefabrication Utilizing Multi-panels and Crew Balancing
DownloadSpring 2014
The construction industry is highly competitive and continually striving towards improving its performance in terms of time, cost, quality, and safety. Improved performance is essential to survival in today’s construction market. In this regard, measuring productivity can facilitate improved...
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A Hybrid Fuzzy Discrete Event Simulation Framework for Analysis of Stochastic and Subjective Uncertainties in Construction Projects
DownloadSpring 2015
Discrete event simulation (DES) has proven to be an indispensable tool for planning and analyzing construction projects. Appropriate consideration of uncertainties of the inputs of DES results in more realistic outputs. Uncertainty in general can be categorized as stochastic and subjective....
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A simulation-based decision-support system for reducing duration, cost, and environmental impacts of earthmoving operations
Download2020-01-01
Pourrahimian, Elyar, Al Hattab, Malak, Ead, Rana, Labban, Ramzi Roy, AbouRizk, Simaan
Earthmoving operations are equipment-intensive processes that rely heavily on the proper selection of the equipment fleet and proper scheduling of associated tasks. Early equipment planning decisions have direct implications on schedules, costs, and more importantly, the environmental performance...
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Deep Learning-based Framework of Summarizing Construction Videos for Vision-based Monitoring of Construction Sites
DownloadFall 2021
In recent years, video monitoring of construction sites has become increasing popular worldwide, with the video footage captured containing important visual information concerning the progress of the given project. Video monitoring also improves the security at construction sites, serving as a...
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Fall 2012
Project risks and uncertainties cause unpredictable project performance. This research intended to demonstrate that project control can be improved with the proceeding of a project, by exploiting new, available project information, and reducing uncertainties. The purpose of this study was to...
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Last Planner System and the Role of Social Interaction: A Social Network Analysis Perspective
DownloadSpring 2023
Lean construction is a new project management method that focuses on increasing quality and value and, by contrast, decreasing any type of waste. Lean management consists of some principles and concepts that have to be noticed to implement effective Lean management and take advantage of it. Based...
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Time-Cost Trade-off (TCT) Analysis based Application Framework for Safety Centric Construction Acceleration Planning
DownloadFall 2021
The purpose of using a Time-Cost Trade-off (TCT) analysis is to account for foreseeable project safety concerns and hazards, speed up activity times, and reduce the overall duration of the project while keeping project cost within a certain budget limit. This type of acceleration planning is...