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 ...

A construction site represents a conflux of concerns, constantly calling for a broad and multi-criteria approach to solving problems related to site planning and design. As an important part of site planning and design, the objective of site-level facility layout is to allocate appropriate locations and areas for accommodating temporary site-level facilities such as warehouses, job offices, wor...

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 ...

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...

This study sought to develop a typology model of temporary facility constraints that can be used practically in construction site layout planning (CSLP) automation models. A triangulated methodology (literature review, in-depth interviews, and actual case studies) was identify 11 facilities are considered mainly CSLP classify them into six constraint types (i.e., dimensional, regional, relocati...