Heron Tower, London – the strategy for construction

Richards, Mark; Gillespie, Nick

doi:10.1680/cien.2010.163.6.48

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A Framework for Construction Strategy Formulation and Visualization

Tran

Russell

Staub‐French

2012

Construction Research Congress 2012

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Informed decisions on the efficacy of project and construction strategies to meet client objectives and satisfy project delivery constraints involve the three tasks of formulation, representation and assessment of alternative strategies. This need is present in not only the initial planning phase of a project, but during the execution phase as necessitated by changed objectives and conditions. Explored in this paper is a way of thinking about the concept of construction strategy and its interrelated parts (tactical variables and plan) in aid of the foregoing tasks, with particular emphasis on large scale vertical and horizontal building and civil infrastructure projects. This way of thinking has been pursued as a complement to other work directed at the visual representation and assessment of construction strategy alternatives in the form of 4D images, construction schedules, and related images, such as the distribution of resources in terms of time, space and physical system. Motivating this work is the pressing need to reduce impediments associated with exploring alternative strategies in a timely and insightful manner using existing scheduling and 4D modeling tools. Our strategy framework takes into account the dynamic factors of a project and consequences for strategy formulation and adaptation as positioned in the domains of time, space/system and project participant, and as driven by project directives. INTRODUCTIONThe successful planning and execution of the construction phase of a project can be measured in terms of fulfilling client objectives while coping with the complexity of the constraint set that accompanies today's projects. Developing and maintaining an effective project plan and schedule involves the consideration of a number of alternative strategies and their associated properties in terms of choice of tactical variables and related values, and corresponding plans at different levels of project definition, both during initial project formulation and then later as the project progresses, most likely with conditions different than those initially anticipated. Project strategy in a holistic sense involves a collection of strategies, some of which touch upon all aspects of a project (e.g. choice of procurement mode by the client) all the way through to the selection by individual trades of how best to proceed at the individual component level. The totality of the strategy used in pursuit of a project evolves during different project phases (planning, design, construction, etc.) and at different points of time in each phase. Our focus herein is on the construction phase

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