Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Optimization of Multi-Skilled Labor to Minimize Lost Man-Hours in Construction Projects
The current practice of single-skilled labor allocation in construction schedules poses some inefficiencies. In such practice, at any instance in the project lifecycle, some of the workforce become idle waiting for other labor types to finish work. Companies may allocate idle workers to other projects and return them back to their original project when needed again. This complicates the resource management process and causes a lot of confusion and is not often performed successfully. Project managers, many times, may also keep the idle workforce at their projects because they will be needed in a later stage and pay them in their idle days; which adds unnecessary cost. Another solution would be doing continuous hiring and laying off; which has severe negative impacts on projects and firms. On the other hand, some research discussed the idea of “multi-skilled” labor, where a number of workers on site may have enough experience to carry out different types of tasks. Multi-skilling decreases inefficiencies and ensures a smooth and continuous progress of projects whilst maintaining the workforce and keeping their idle time to a minimum. Multi-skilling could be also used to speed up progress in construction schedules. The objective of this research is to develop a framework for optimizing training and allocating multi-skilled labor in construction projects. In doing so it is expected to minimize idle times of labor by allocating them to ongoing activities.
Optimization of Multi-Skilled Labor to Minimize Lost Man-Hours in Construction Projects
The current practice of single-skilled labor allocation in construction schedules poses some inefficiencies. In such practice, at any instance in the project lifecycle, some of the workforce become idle waiting for other labor types to finish work. Companies may allocate idle workers to other projects and return them back to their original project when needed again. This complicates the resource management process and causes a lot of confusion and is not often performed successfully. Project managers, many times, may also keep the idle workforce at their projects because they will be needed in a later stage and pay them in their idle days; which adds unnecessary cost. Another solution would be doing continuous hiring and laying off; which has severe negative impacts on projects and firms. On the other hand, some research discussed the idea of “multi-skilled” labor, where a number of workers on site may have enough experience to carry out different types of tasks. Multi-skilling decreases inefficiencies and ensures a smooth and continuous progress of projects whilst maintaining the workforce and keeping their idle time to a minimum. Multi-skilling could be also used to speed up progress in construction schedules. The objective of this research is to develop a framework for optimizing training and allocating multi-skilled labor in construction projects. In doing so it is expected to minimize idle times of labor by allocating them to ongoing activities.
Optimization of Multi-Skilled Labor to Minimize Lost Man-Hours in Construction Projects
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Walbridge, Scott (Herausgeber:in) / Nik-Bakht, Mazdak (Herausgeber:in) / Ng, Kelvin Tsun Wai (Herausgeber:in) / Shome, Manas (Herausgeber:in) / Alam, M. Shahria (Herausgeber:in) / el Damatty, Ashraf (Herausgeber:in) / Lovegrove, Gordon (Herausgeber:in) / Saleh, A. (Autor:in) / Abotaleb, I. (Autor:in) / Hosny, O. (Autor:in)
Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference ; 2021
Proceedings of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2021 ; Kapitel: 9 ; 97-106
01.06.2022
10 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Skilled-labor shortage concerns contractors
British Library Online Contents | 1997
Skilled-labor shortage concerns contractors
Online Contents | 1997