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EPSRC Reference: GR/N00876/02
Title: THE VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTION SITE: A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTION PLANNING
Principal Investigator: Winch, Professor GM
Other Investigators:
Penn, Professor A Edkins, Professor AJD
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:
Bond Bryan Partnership Kvaerner Technology Services Design Associates
Stent Foundations Ltd Tarmac Turner and Townsend
WS Atkins
Department: Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Eng
Organisation: University of Manchester, The
Scheme: LINK
Starts: 01 September 2001 Ends: 28 February 2003 Value (£): 80,485
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Construction Ops & Management
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Construction
Related Grants:
GR/N00906/01 GR/N00890/01
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Summary on Grant Application Form
The building bolck of construction planning methodology is the task. The array of tasks provides the work breakdown structure; the temporal sequencing of tasks is the core of critical path analysis; and the resourcing of tasks provides the input costs of the works. However, what is usually ignored in current methodologies is that fact that task execution occupies space on site, and spaces occupied by one task are not available either for the execution of other tasks, or the movement of resources between different task execution spaces. VR techniques offer considerable potential for visualising and analysing the spatial and temporal distribution of tasks to inform the decision process.The proposed research will build upon work by the collaborators and elsewhere which has advanced the visualisation of task sequences beyond the Gannt chart, while adding a new dimension to construction planning - that of critical space analysis. The aim will to be provide a desktop strategic decision support tool which will allow planners to trade off the temporal sequencing of tasks with their spatial distribution. The result would be a more robust and rehearsed project schedule.
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