Assessing Understanding of Planning and Scheduling Theory and Practice on Construction Projects

AlNasseri, Hammad Abdullah; Aulin, Radhlinah

doi:10.1080/10429247.2015.1035963

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“…Many residential construction projects in Iran have not been successful due to the poor aforementioned factors [92,94]. Financial benefits generally play the most significant role in a project's initiation in Iran's construction industry, which is common among all project's stakeholders [95,96]. This issue leads to acceleration in project initiation without adequate and precise design, estimation, and planning.…”

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The impact of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Phases on Project Performance: A Case of Large-scale Residential Construction Project

Kabirifar

Mojtahedi

2019

Buildings

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The Construction Industry is a complex and fragmented industry worldwide with regards to its supply chain, products, and processes, and is faced with a similar dilemma as faced by manufacturers during its time in past decades. Scope, time, and cost are the triple constraints of project management and leading factors in defining the project performance. Productivity and efficiency of each construction project is measured through its triple constraints, therefore the factors that affect project success are significantly important. Despite the importance of understanding project performance indicators, few empirical studies have been conducted over the last decade in terms of analyzing the factors that determine the performance of high-rise buildings in Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) projects. Hence, the aim of this paper is to analyze and rank EPC critical activities across large-scale residential construction projects in Iran, by using the TOPSIS method as a multi-attribute group decision-making technique. Results indicate that engineering design, project planning and controls are significant factors contributing to the project performance. In addition, engineering has a pivotal role in project performance and this significance is followed by the construction phase. On the contrary, all believe procurement is more important than Construction phase.

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The impact of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Phases on Project Performance: A Case of Large-scale Residential Construction Project

Kabirifar

Mojtahedi

2019

Buildings

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“…For instance, Lines et al (2015) has examined that project duration could be shorten by 54% and minimized cost by 70% if pre-contract planning is incorporated. However, front end planning effort is given less attention during the initial project schedule (AlNasseri & Aulin, 2015;Zwikael, 2009). The study carried by AlNasseri and Aulin (2015) indicated that recognition and adoption of front end planning in construction projects is limited and not sufficiently implemented.…”

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Scientometric Review of Construction Project Schedule Studies: Trends, Gaps and Potential Research Areas

Derbe

et al. 2020

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Scheduling plays a fundamental role in construction projects’ success and thus has drawn attention from both academic researchers and industry practitioners. A large number of research articles tend to solve emerging challenges in construction project schedule (CPS). Therefore, there is a strong need of systematic review on existing studies. In this study, a total of 332 articles were retrieved from Scopus database using title, abstract and keywords with respect to CPS and filtered by document type, language type and abstract content. In particular, science mapping approach was adopted to analyse selected journal articles. These articles were examined using three sequential processes, including bibliometric search, scientometric analysis, and in-depth qualitative discussion. It could demonstrate the most influential journals, researchers, published articles, and active countries/regions in this area. In addition, major CPS knowledge areas were identified and summarized as CPS constructability, applications of variety of CPS methods, CPS optimization models and algorithms, identification and quantification of schedule risks and uncertainties, CPS performance management, and adopting new emerging CPS technologies and methods. Furthermore, knowledge gaps and future potential research directions were also discussed in detail. Finally, a comprehensive CPS framework was proposed as a sound reference in future research.

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“…Not only the visualisation techniques but also the planning techniques have developed from the prevailing CPM to others like critical-space-analysis (CSA), critical-chain-method (CCM) and the Last Planner system of production control (LPS) which consist of a fixed set of predefined processes for the production process (Faniran et al, 1999;Sriprasert and Dawood, 2003;Kenley and Seppänen, 2006;Baldwin and Bordoli, 2014;AlNasseri and Aulin, 2015;Bølviken et al, 2015). Along with these planning techniques, the focus shifted from activity-based scheduling towards scheduling which is more based on the location of the activities being scheduled, rather than the type of work they represent.…”

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“…To some extent, the lack of adoption of these IT-tools and methods is not due to disbelief in the tools, but rather that the tools imply a different way of working. The pressure of everyday work leads the users often reverting to familiar and tested tools and processes instead of adopting new approaches (Christiansen, 2012;AlNasseri and Aulin, 2015).…”

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BIM tool development enhancing collaborative scheduling for pre-construction

Tallgren¹,

Roupé²,

Johansson³

et al. 2020

ITcon

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Construction projects often suffer from backlashes in relation to poor plans and schedules. Especially pre-construction planning has been challenging due to a high complexity, an extensive amount of information, and a lack of site managers time to make the schedule. To solve these issues for pre-construction planning; new planning processes, methods and tools have been developed over the last decade. However, due to a disregard of the current planning processes these tools have been difficult to adopt in practice. In addition, these developed tools and methods are seldom developed from the user’s point of view. A promising development is the introduction of integrated planning as a concept in construction companies. It involves the use of BIM models in concert with a planning approach where the subcontractors engage in the planning. However, currently available tools are more geared towards experienced users such as expert planners and does not allow for a fully collaborative and integrated planning approach. While many current tools would tick many of the requirements identified, they still fail to address the base requirements from the collaborative work environment literature. This paper contributes with a user-centric design and development of a collaborative planning application showing the integration of the existing collaborative planning process. By adopting a socio-technical approach, the paper focuses on combining technology and processes supporting the users and their way of working in order to enable adoption of the solution. A design science research approach has been used to gather requirements and develop and evaluate the Visual Project Planner (VPP) application. The VPP application applies a collaborative, visual approach supporting interdisciplinary knowledge sharing between all parties involved where the subcontractors actively can contribute to schedule. The VPP application has potential to reduce time for pre-construction planning regardless of the planning approach used.

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Assessing Understanding of Planning and Scheduling Theory and Practice on Construction Projects

Cited by 27 publications

References 64 publications

The impact of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Phases on Project Performance: A Case of Large-scale Residential Construction Project

The impact of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Phases on Project Performance: A Case of Large-scale Residential Construction Project

Scientometric Review of Construction Project Schedule Studies: Trends, Gaps and Potential Research Areas

BIM tool development enhancing collaborative scheduling for pre-construction

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