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Constructability Concepts, Significance, and Implementation
Improving the productivity and quality of construction projects along with the minimization of cost and time are significant concerns in construction engineering and management. These concerns have stimulated specialists to gather the best practices and generate new techniques leading to more productive projects. Constructability review is one of the established methods for integrating design and construction phases, taking construction knowledge and experience into consideration in the early stages of a project. Performing an appropriate constructability review is one of the best practical solutions for projects that may potentially end up with high costs, schedules overruns, and complicated designs. In this process, by continuous involvement of experts in all phases of projects, their knowledge and experience will be reflected in the project considerations, leading to a feasible design and construction. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive list of constructability concepts and their significance by reviewing the literature and complement it with a survey from industrial experts. The list of compiled constructability concepts is divided into conceptual phase, design and procurement, and field operation phases. The significance of constructability concepts, regarding each stage of a project, was identified through a survey. Finally, constructability implementation in a steel fabrication company using defined constructability concepts was studied, and recommendations for improving their practice by applying this research’s output are provided.
Constructability Concepts, Significance, and Implementation
Improving the productivity and quality of construction projects along with the minimization of cost and time are significant concerns in construction engineering and management. These concerns have stimulated specialists to gather the best practices and generate new techniques leading to more productive projects. Constructability review is one of the established methods for integrating design and construction phases, taking construction knowledge and experience into consideration in the early stages of a project. Performing an appropriate constructability review is one of the best practical solutions for projects that may potentially end up with high costs, schedules overruns, and complicated designs. In this process, by continuous involvement of experts in all phases of projects, their knowledge and experience will be reflected in the project considerations, leading to a feasible design and construction. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive list of constructability concepts and their significance by reviewing the literature and complement it with a survey from industrial experts. The list of compiled constructability concepts is divided into conceptual phase, design and procurement, and field operation phases. The significance of constructability concepts, regarding each stage of a project, was identified through a survey. Finally, constructability implementation in a steel fabrication company using defined constructability concepts was studied, and recommendations for improving their practice by applying this research’s output are provided.
Constructability Concepts, Significance, and Implementation
Mohsenijam, Arash (author) / Mahdavian, Amirsaman (author) / Shojaei, Alireza (author)
Construction Research Congress 2020 ; 2020 ; Tempe, Arizona
Construction Research Congress 2020 ; 475-484
2020-11-09
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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