A BIM-based approach for automated tower crane layout planning |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Australasia Joint Research Centre for Building Information Modelling, Curtin University, Australia;2. School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, China;3. Department of Housing and Interior Design, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea;4. School of Construction Management and Real Estate, Chongqing University, China;5. School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Australia;1. College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Chaoyang, Beijing 100124, China;2. Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region;1. Fujian University of Technology, College of Civil Engineering, Fujian 350108, China;2. National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Department of Construction Engineering, Taipei 106, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | Tower crane layout design and planning within construction site is a common construction technical issue, and is regarded as a complex combinatorial problem. Previous research focused on utilising either mathematical methods or visualisation tools to find an optimal tower crane layout plan. Both these two approaches require large amounts of manual data input by the layout planners, which is time-consuming and not very practical in industry. The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated approach which combines Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Firefly Algorithm (FA) to automatically generate an optimal tower crane layout plan. Firstly, BIM is utilised to provide inputs for the mathematical model. Then the FA is used to determine the optimal locations of tower cranes and supply points. Finally, the optimal tower crane layout scheme will be visualised and evaluated through BIM-based simulation. A practical case is selected to demonstrate the proposed approach. The final result is promising and demonstrates the practical value of this approach. |
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