Constructability: Outline of Past, Present, and Future Research

Blockchain in construction logistics: state-of-art, constructability, and the advent of a new digital business model in Sweden

“…• Assist in the optimization of a project's constructability, namely "the optimum use of construction knowledge and experience in planning, design, procurement, and field operations to achieve overall project objectives" (Construction Industry Institute, 1986). Important constructability aspects are a holistic view on logistics, supply chain integration, and close stakeholder cooperation through trusted transactions (Kifokeris & Xenidis, 2017), which pose direct interfaces with blockchain implementation.…”

“…• Emphasis on construction-specific frameworks of production and management interconnected with supply chains. Most prominent among such frameworks is constructability, which can both impact and be impacted positively by an effective supply chain with integrated flows, procedural transparency, and simultaneous early contractor involvement in the construction project lifecycle (Love et al, 1999;O'Brien, 1999;Khalfan et al, 2001;Love et al, 2004;Karim et al, 2006;Khalfan et al, 2010;Chen, 2012;Saunders et al, 2015;Kifokeris & Xenidis, 2017). Other construction-specific aspects to be emphasized can include the implementation of lean construction principles (Koçtaş & Tek, 2013;Santorella, 2017), component prioritization (Jiang, 2016) for economic flow optimization, and the effect of the chosen contractual strategy (e.g.…”

Integrating Ca4prs V.3 Road Widening Schedule Module Into Us Highway Early Constructability Process: California Sr-91 Corridor Improvement Program Case Study

“…CRP have been found to increase procurement efficacy, design, construction methods, construction and maintenance staffing efficiency, team integration, and project performance and reduce change orders (Gambatese et al 2007) with a resultant benefit to cost ratio of at least 2:1 (Dunston et al 2001). However, CRP literature and technological integration in the transportation sector has stagnated, with few publications or advances seen within the last ten years (Kifokeris, Xenidis 2017). There exist opportunities to improve the CRP process by integrating software, which reduces agency resource burdens (Dunston et al 2005), incorporates considerations of life-cycle maintenance and scheduling impacts (Anderson, Fisher 1997;Saghatforoush et al 2011), and provides a visualization of the results (Kifokeris, Xenidis 2017).…”

“…However, CRP literature and technological integration in the transportation sector has stagnated, with few publications or advances seen within the last ten years (Kifokeris, Xenidis 2017). There exist opportunities to improve the CRP process by integrating software, which reduces agency resource burdens (Dunston et al 2005), incorporates considerations of life-cycle maintenance and scheduling impacts (Anderson, Fisher 1997;Saghatforoush et al 2011), and provides a visualization of the results (Kifokeris, Xenidis 2017). Thus, this paper proposes the incorporation of the CA4PRS v.3 software into existing CRP practices, which fulfils all of these agency needs (Lee et al 2000).…”

Uncertainty Processing and Risk Monitoring in Construction Projects Using Hierarchical Probabilistic Relational Models

“…Different recent approaches and tools have been proposed to model and simulate construction project or/and project risk as Risk Breakdown Structure (Mehdizadeh, ), Bayesian networks (BNs) (Jensen et al, ; Sousa and Einstein, ; Spac̃ková and Straub, ; Wu et al., ), agent‐based model (Taillandier et al., ), Network Theory (Fang et al., ), Monte Carlo simulation (Bhargava et al., ; Patterson and Neailey, ; Sadeghi et al., ), and Analytical Network Process (Boateng et al., )—see a detailed literature review in Kifokeris and Xenidis () and Taroun (). It appears that models mainly focus on cost and duration deviations but recent aspects as end‐user, customer satisfaction, communication, resources quality, and so forth have to be taken into account in risk management.…”