Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

GR/N00876/02

Title:

THE VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTION SITE: A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTION PLANNING

Principal Investigator:

Winch, Professor GM

Other Investigators:

Edkins, Professor AJD

Penn, Professor A

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

Panel History:

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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