Site layout planning can affect productivity and is crucial to project success. However, as construction is heterogeneous in the nature of its organizations, project designs, time constraints, environmental effects, etc., site layout planning for each project becomes unique. Affected by many uncertainties ~variables! and variations, site layout planning is a typical multiobjective problem. To f...

Purpose In recent years construction projects have become more complex and time-driven, especially with the rapid rise in the number of active partners involved in each project. Space is regarded as a limited resource on construction sites. Proper planning for site layouts ensuring construction activities can be executed safely and efficiently is until now a time-consuming manual process. Site ...

Current approaches in planning building site equipment evaluate static periods, e.g. construction phases. As a consequence these states provide a rudimentary optimized layout plan, however without considering the material flow and corresponding interactions in a precise form. Due to dynamic processes, which could obstruct the material flow, an adaption of the equipment layout during individual ...

This paper presents a new construction simulation approach using CellDEVS techniques, which allows considering site spatial constraints and the sensitivity analysis of different site layout patterns. The proposed approach includes three phases: pre-processing to configure the simulation, main-processing where the simulation is executed, and post-processing, which incorporates animation and sens...

Background: A site layout plan is one of the important decisions to be made in planning phase each construction project as it can significantly impact on-site transportation, logistics, and safety. This decision could complicated owing uncertainties inherent projects complex relationships between influencing factors variables. Methods: To improve planning, this study aims develop a simulation-b...