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Integrating BIM and Optimization Techniques for Enhanced Tower Crane Planning
Tower crane planning in pre-construction phase has long-lasting impacts on project cost and schedule. Current approaches and tools being used by industry to facilitate tower crane planning can be time-consuming, difficult to disclose all constraints, and challenging in visualizing and comprehending alternatives. Hence, tower crane planning experiential knowledge needs to be formalized to develop an efficient approach and effective tools to support tower crane planning. This research aims at formalizing criteria for tower crane planning by examining standards published by regulatory institutes and synthesizing knowledge of professional experts. Learning from the criteria and the knowledge inherent in current procedures, we devised an enhanced planning approach leveraging building information modeling (BIM) and optimization models. Finally, this paper demonstrates the utility of the formalized criteria and the proposed approach by applying them to a case study on a building construction project. Using a combination of parametric modelling, BIM, and optimization techniques, tower crane planning can be less time consuming and more accurate. Visualization capabilities and improved information quality in the planning process are also beneficial. For future work, the proposed approach for tower crane planning can be further analyzed to develop benchmarking metrics that can be applied, in general, to any building project, despite project unique characteristics.
Integrating BIM and Optimization Techniques for Enhanced Tower Crane Planning
Tower crane planning in pre-construction phase has long-lasting impacts on project cost and schedule. Current approaches and tools being used by industry to facilitate tower crane planning can be time-consuming, difficult to disclose all constraints, and challenging in visualizing and comprehending alternatives. Hence, tower crane planning experiential knowledge needs to be formalized to develop an efficient approach and effective tools to support tower crane planning. This research aims at formalizing criteria for tower crane planning by examining standards published by regulatory institutes and synthesizing knowledge of professional experts. Learning from the criteria and the knowledge inherent in current procedures, we devised an enhanced planning approach leveraging building information modeling (BIM) and optimization models. Finally, this paper demonstrates the utility of the formalized criteria and the proposed approach by applying them to a case study on a building construction project. Using a combination of parametric modelling, BIM, and optimization techniques, tower crane planning can be less time consuming and more accurate. Visualization capabilities and improved information quality in the planning process are also beneficial. For future work, the proposed approach for tower crane planning can be further analyzed to develop benchmarking metrics that can be applied, in general, to any building project, despite project unique characteristics.
Integrating BIM and Optimization Techniques for Enhanced Tower Crane Planning
Ji, Yuanshen (author) / Sankaran, Bharathwaj (author) / Choi, Jiyong (author) / Leite, Fernanda (author)
ASCE International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering 2017 ; 2017 ; Seattle, Washington
2017-06-22
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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