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Scheduling the Work of Multiple Construction Crews Working Concurrently in Repetitive Construction Projects

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Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

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Civil and Architecture Engineering

Abstract

In repetitive construction projects such as roads, pipelines and multi-story buildings, schedulers might need to utilize multiple crews to simultaneously construct sub-activities of a particular activity to shorten their duration. Synchronizing the work of these crews while complying to their work continuity constraint is a challenging task due to the variation of activities quantities of work in each unit and the productivity rates of available crew formations for each activity. This paper presents a novel scheduling approach for repetitive construction projects that enables the concurrent utilization of multiple crews while complying with: (1) crew availability; (2) precedence relationships; and (3) crew work continuity constraints. An application example from the literature is analyzed to validate the current approach, demonstrate its use and illustrate its novel capabilities. Results of this analysis showed that the current methodology successfully saved 8% in project duration in comparison to the least project duration achieved in the literature.

DOI

10.21608/ejmtc.2023.194776.1248

Keywords

Repetitive Construction Projects, Resources Utilization, Scheduling

Authors

First Name

Emad

Last Name

Abdelpasset

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Affiliation

Dept. of Civil Engineering, Military Technical College, Cairo 11865, Egypt.

Email

emad.abdelpasset@gmail.com

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First Name

Yasser

Last Name

khalifa

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Military Technical College, Cairo 11865, Egypt.

Email

khalifa_yasser@mtc.edu.eg

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First Name

Nabil

Last Name

Amer

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Affiliation

Professor, Dept. of Building and Construction, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and marine transport; Cairo, Egypt.

Email

nabil_amer63@yahoo.com

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First Name

Abbas

Last Name

Hassan

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Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Dept. of production management and quality, Military Technical College, Cairo 11865, Egypt.

Email

abbas.hassan@mtc.edu.eg

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Volume

7

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1

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42647

Issue Date

2023-07-01

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2023-02-19

Publish Date

2023-07-01

Page Start

54

Page End

60

Print ISSN

2357-0954

Online ISSN

2357-0946

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https://ejmtc.journals.ekb.eg/article_299882.html

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299,882

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307

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Publication Title

Journal of Engineering Science and Military Technologies

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https://ejmtc.journals.ekb.eg/

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Scheduling the Work of Multiple Construction Crews Working Concurrently in Repetitive Construction Projects

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23 Dec 2024