a Department of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde, 107 Rottenrow, John Anderson Building, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
b Department of Civil Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Abstract:
This paper presents an approach to the integration of site-related activities into the planning and scheduling of the entire construction project. The paper starts by briefly reviewing some common methods used by construction firms in the planning and scheduling of site activities. Next follows a discussion of current research efforts concerned with the modelling of site-related procedures. Then a virtual-reality-based model is proposed, which uses both knowledge-based simulation of the work progress and visualisation capabilities, to achieve the desired integration. Finally the prototype system is described and its potential is demonstrated through several examples.