Construction Project Management - Science topic

I think it would be useful to provide the BIM-based technologies for contractors and supply planning which can be obtained by using the automated technology of construction and reconstruction management AT "Building Manager".

AT "Building Manager" is not one software product, but a system of interconnected software products of different developers, designed to achieve a main goal:

The creation of this automated technology required considerable efforts from developers of all software complexes included in AT, from the development and coordination of information exchange protocols to the development of special software.

Joint operation of software complexes of different purposes within the framework of a single system not only systematised all information flows against the background of significant reduction of labour intensity of separate processes (for example: calculation of estimates or formation of network organisational and technological model of construction for calculations of calendar plans) with the significant increase of information reliability level, but also has opened such opportunities, which were unavailable when using these software complexes separately.

Such capabilities include 4D-visualisation of the construction process (three-dimensional display of the construction object on any day of the calendar plan with or without the fact of work execution).

Inclusion or not of different software complexes in AT "Building Manager" is not regulated by any contract between developers, but is determined by functional capabilities of software products to provide import and export of information with the use of information exchange protocols accepted in AT "Building Manager".

Dear Purushotham

Each of us has the own story about life experience and why we become students .

I spend 17 years in this Construction field, and you all be surprised by the way I become student at my age 51 years old in 2024.

I can see many of you very well educated and smart appearence that link through the academic skills over the years we spend ,we know we start from scratch, making mistakes or errors help us first to introduce ourselves, who are you ? What is your aiming with GBS along for the next 4 years .

How that experience along with GBS I will use for good purposes ?

I was working especially in Construction field that involve residential projects ,and I become student because I lost the job,now the reason to message you Purushotham but also for all readers why we need to understand the Scientific Management to developing perfect skills and F.W.Taylor (1856-1915) focus on maximum prosperity that Management and workers work together towards this common aim was self evident but there were conflicts ,strikes and strikes, why ?

Taylor felt to share three main reasons that the workers feared that more output meant fewer jobs, poor quality tawdry Management resulted in workers going slow to protect themselves and worst of all ,inefficient ways of performing their allocated tasks.

My main reason before our communication is to identify us as a trust person with new skills to understand each of us .

The Project Manager I was working till this January 2024 told me to go home when I said my father dies as well and my mum suffer from osteoporosis and heart illness, was asking me to go home when I said that.

Why Management leaders cannot perform the best quality of leadership since they should guide us ? Workers like you all were casual and lackadaisical in meeting their work commitment.

I believe from all my heart through my own experience Management leaders had not studied workers methods of working to find better ways of doing jobs but had left the workers to do their jobs as best they could-with disastrous results .

That remind me clearly about Taylor when he said if there is conflicts condemned them and said that the only reason they occurred was because of unscientific Management and give us several example where he believe those fail related to .

I said to myself what type of person I can be after 4 years graduation with GBS? What type of vision and academic skills I will use on integrity basis to be proud in relation with others ? I will be better person as a best support for others to provide adequately trained to immigrants, poor people in order that in the future to do their job properly?

Can I take advantage as a Project Manager to abuse others ? Can I provide different positive outcomes to others I work that not to do against others what others did to me in the past ?

How relevant is to prove our relationship as a human kind before I answer you all,students and people paths definitely will change people concept and life education, share and talk,be kind and answer to others in the way those exchanged life experiences would help us by become better people.

My mum Maria 72 years old told me about this unique opportunity with GBS to apply when I was lost the Job in Swindon .

My promise is to be the best and learn from you all,advice each other in the context to be better people in relation with all others .

Herzberg theory noted that are demotivators as well as motivators.

Regular performances reviews bonuses and fringe benefits along with team work ,encourage involvement in all types of advice we are looking for ,help you to believe over time what type of person we are.

I mean shortly I describe myself,as a new student I am keen to learn and explore our idea in the context to become better Managers ,educated first to understand and support others from our time and life experience .

I have 2 emails that we can communicate and they're :

G165193@globalbanking.ac.uk

Liviu-Constantin.Zdroana23@bathspa.ac.uk

I would like to share and ask questions relevant for you all ,may I ask you something Purushotham, can I ?

It is straightforward, so GBS work with students from private financial support and government student finance ,1 different categories ,if you are the GBS leader are you going to treat all the students with the same responsibilities dignity and privacy for the next 4 years ?

Are you going to answer them and support all students unconditionally to their relevant subject related to trust ,equality rights ,information’s sometimes could arrive to GBS that could be falsificated by third parties that could harm the students reputations ,if for example you are GBS leader what could be your message for all students ? What is the first commitment in our relationship to be considered ?

Regards Liviu Constantin Zdroana

thanks

Our faculty provide a Ph.D. degree about the project management. Top 100 ranking via QS world ranking lists and lower living cost and tuition fees. Excellent candidates can apply for Research Assistantships or scholarships. Welcome to apply University of Malaya.

I think the following paper will help you out in this regard:

Types and functions of special purpose vehicles in infrastructure megaprojects

T Sainati, G Locatelli, N Smith, N Brookes… - … Journal of Project …, 2020 - Elsevier

you can do this MSc title research

'' Risk management of UK construction Projects during crises''

Bontle Chabaesele The construction industry contributes nearly 1 billion tonnes of waste every year and also contributes to about 37% of CO2 emissions. Sustainability, Green construction, Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and minimizing the impact are the norms of the day and these cannot be called needed knowledge areas anymore. Now these need to be the core requirements for construction professionals

Hi

you can investigate the sustainable management suitability for construction project management. minassed@yahoo.co.uk

Ok Sheila, now I complete the survey and share it with my colleagues. Good luck, best regards.

Ok Sheila, I will share the form with architect friends who work in construction. Kind regards.

Sure

Hello. the projects that have been achieved high quality (Building rating systems Certification) are suitable for you.

Is the paper in the project management field accepted?

Thank you Loh Yong Seng

Let me look at the survey and give you feedback.

One key to productive public engagement is the need to inform the public about the hidden dynamics of infrastructure. In the early 1900s, there was a London neighborhood where workers had to pay a toll to cross a bridge to get to their jobs. The public, when informed of this, thought it was terrible to charge working class people a toll to get tot their jobs. In response, the government eliminated the toll. Within a short time, rents in this neighborhood increased by the amount of the toll. Workers who used the bridge were no better off than before. Some, who didn't use the bridge, were worse off because their rents went up and they received no benefit.

If infrastructure projects are well-designed and well-executed, the price of well-served land goes up, creating windfall profits for a few who are lucky-enough to own well-served land. The ability of private landowners to appropriate publicly-created land value is the fuel for land speculation -- a parasitic activity that creates nothing of value, but which inflates land prices to the detriment of residents and businesses alike.

So public engagement regarding infrastructure projects must include education about land value creation. This education should also inform people about techniques for land value return and recycling, whereby publicly-created land values can be returned to the public sector and used to pay for the infrastructure that created them.

I suggest that you use the 5D BIM technology, which is related to the cost of construction elements. You need to model your project using software as revit, and then link the model's elements to the cost and time schedule using software like Naviswork. This will give you visualization for the construction phases and the project life cycle.

For dissertation purpose, it might figure out the Hong Kong entrepreneur Li Ka-Shing's great community-building project in London, UK, approved recently by the government is worth studying the correlation among employment, market value and society ecosystem policy

https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=449122

He is recruiting PhD students in CM, and PhD tuition fees in NZ is reasonable. I am not sure about online accredited program. You may need to contact him for further discussion. I hope this helps

In Poland, there is now a trend in which we all have to duplicate our research and analysis in magazines that have relevant points on the list from our Ministry of Science and Higher Education - unfortunately I can't find you in our list :-(

As a method of the research we used Automated system-cognitive analysis (ASC-analysis), which is a new innovative method of artificial intelligence: it also has its own software tool – an intelligent system called "Eidos" (open source software) [1, 2, 3].

The Eidos-X++ system differs from other artificial intelligence systems in the following parameters:

- was developed in a universal setting, independent of the subject area. Therefore, it is universal and can be applied in many subject areas (http://lc.kubagro.ru/aidos/index.htm);

- is in full open free access (http://lc.kubagro.ru/aidos/_Aidos-X.htm), and with the relevant source texts (http://lc.kubagro.ru/__AIDOS-X.txt);

- is one of the first domestic systems of artificial intelligence of the personal level, i.e. it does not take special training in the field of technologies of artificial intelligence from the user (there is an act of introduction of system "Eidos" of 1987) (http://lc.kubagro.ru/aidos/aidos02/PR-4.htm);

- provides stable identification in a comparable form of strengh and direction of cause-effect relationships in incomplete noisy interdependent (nonlinear) data of very large dimension of numerical and non-numerical nature, measured in different types of scales (nominal, ordinal and numerical) and in different units of measurement (i.e. does not impose strict requirements to the data that can not be performed, and processes the data that is);

- contains a large number of local (supplied with the installation) and cloud educational and scientific applications (currently 31 and 199, respectively) (http://lc.kubagro.ru/aidos/Presentation_Aidos-online.pdf);

- provides multilingual interface support in 44 languages. Language databases are included in the installation and can be replenished automatically;

- supports on-line environment of knowledge accumulation and is widely used all over the world (http://aidos.byethost5.com/map5.php);

- the most time-consuming computationally, the operations of the synthesis models and implements recognition by using graphic processing unit (GPU) that some tasks can only support up to the solution of these tasks is several thousand times that really provides intelligent processing of big data, big information and big knowledge;

- provides transformation of the initial empirical data into information, and its knowledge and solution using this knowledge of classification problems, decision support and research of the subject area by studying its system-cognitive model, generating a very large number of tabular and graphical output forms (development of cognitive graphics), many of which have no analogues in other systems (examples of forms can be found in: http://lc.kubagro.ru/aidos/aidos18_LLS/aidos18_LLS.pdf);

- well imitates the human style of thinking: gives the results of the analysis, understandable to experts on the basis of their experience, intuition and professional competence.

Dear Francine, Thanks a lot for your added discussion.

Best Regards

Haneefa

Yousaf Ali

Use any of the project management software such as PRIMEVERA or hire a project manager who knows to use it. And use that as the platform for your works

All consultants are key to project success. Effects of delay in their appointment can hardly be mitigated. And think the only way is to appoint all consultants earliest.

Friday Efole.

Thank you Thanu Hp , Mehrzad Valiyousefi , Fatemeh Nouban for the information regarding the query.

Start to Start: Wetting of sub-base and compaction of that in pavement engineering.

Finish to Finish: pure the concrete, test the concrete

For SF please see this link:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Any_good_examples_of_Start-to-Finish_dependency

Some of the papers I read which mention "contingency theory" (15% of the papers in my personal Mendeley database) seem to use this as a kind of disclaimer. On the other hand, it's certainly a lens a critical observer must use. E.g. Müller: "... contingency theory explains the reciprocal determination of OPM elements (i.e., their positing against each other) by ... "

I perform research on ideal characteristics of members of project steering committees. Based on papers the ideal characteristics might vary on a lot of contingencies (project phase, complexity, degree of outsourcing, level of projectification etc). I will have the same issue as the other papers. I might be able to add one of two independent variables in the research. But more would make at least the quantitative part undoable.

I am not sure that the field is underexplored. Just that due to practical reasons only a few variables will be taken into account in at least quantitative studies. Could you explain with what you mean by "underexplored"? And what is "the field" or is it more a lens for research?

For me in my practitioner life what contingency theory brings: if you state there is one best solution, you should be very carefull in proving that.

Hence the question you asked very general, if you would be more specific then may you get the answer, whatever you are looking for, but the following are considered the basic books for the topic "Rail Project management"

1) Mapping Interface Management to Project Management: Railway Project Case Study by Yazan Abualfeilat

2) Railway Works Engineering & Construction Project Management by M.M Agarwal and M.K Gupta

3) Objective Railway Engineering - Track, Works & Others by by M. M. Agarwal

All the best with your Project

Dear Solomon Sackey,

Find Pareto front of multiple fitness functions using genetic algorithm

https://www.mathworks.com/help/gads/gamultiobj.html

Anthony Mills and are correct. I would also like to advance the concept of psychological contract in determining the levels of trust and commitment to project delivery. I have coauthored a couple of papers on this concept. You can have the best contract or the worst contract, the team’s commitment and understanding of psychological contracts will assist in either scenario in my view.

Safeer Ali, I would also respectfully disagree with you.

The entire construction process needs to evolve and change it's mentality in order to increase productivity and reduce delays. And researchers have been on the case for a few decades now with BIM, the space planning ( https://ascelibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.1061/%28ASCE%290733-9364%281994%29120%3A1%2896%29 ) and The Lean Construction ( http://www.leanconstruction.org/media/docs/Koskela-TR72.pdf). One of the objectives of those works is to increase the collaboration between stakeholders.

So, in that regard, for the design phase, a proper use of BIM is probably the way to go. You can look at the work of Professor Daniel Forgue (https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=FXCB-qwAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1&oi=ao) for more information on how BIM will help the construction industry.

Then, the works mentioned by , have prove there positive effects on construction project managements.

And for the construction phase, proper planning techniques are essentials to prevent delays. So, you can look at the following work

- Iris D. Tommelein and the Takt-Time Planning ( )

- Olli Seppänen and The Location Based Management System ( https://www.routledge.com/Location-Based-Management-for-Construction-Planning-scheduling-and-control/Kenley-Seppanen/p/book/9780415370509 )

- Adel Francis and The Chronographical Modeling

You are welcome, Christiana!

Good question.. Please share me the best answer might you trust...

Regards…

lean construction

Thanks Peter Zeile and Aryan Shahabian for your posts.

I agree with both however it is much more difficult to work in some areas than the others when it comes to VR and more specifically in AR. I’ve recently reviewed a couple of papers in this area which although we’re good attempts missed on the research methodology 101 and that was a shame!

We have also published a couple of papers recently mostly in conferences to test the ground and believe that there definitely are new boundaries to be explores and new grounds to cover.

At SET, UoB, we have recently won some investment fund for developing AR/VR research in our school and acquired a good mix of AR/VR Technologies (HoloLens included). We are still to set up our new lab physically but good news is that we will be up and running soon.

on another account in an independent research group I lead we are also concentrating on self-commissioned research in this area.

The discussion here was what we have in our group as a regular topic and have recently decided to dedicate our next project to a couple of ideas which will hopefully come to fruition soon.

Ill keep updating the post both in here and in a project I’ve set up on RG.

Thanks again and hope we can develop some areas of joint research activities in the near future.

Poorang

Great question and very good critical observations. BIM is not the "magic bullet" that it was portrayed as when it hit the market. It is just a tool, not a philosophy. BIM is merely a highly effective computer design tool that can be linked with estimating and scheduling tools to assist the project manager, but it still requires human intervention and a discipline to feed the tool and evaluate its output. Like all the other magic bullets that have arisen in our industry, critical path scheduling, partnering, alliancing, lean construction, to name a few, BIM does not guarantee success. Its the people on the project team that make that happen. We seem to forget that no matter what gimmicks we employ in the project delivery process, the project team must still plan, design, construct, commission, and maintain the completed project. That is and always has been a very difficult, very complex effort. The tools help sort out the complexities, but only if their practitioners understand and appreciate their limitations. I spent 20 years in the construction industry before moving to academia and have found that my academic colleagues tend to assume reality out of the project management equation because it greatly simplifies the analysis and leads to gee-whiz, publishable findings. I'll end this missive before I go off the deep end on this line of reasoning. Thank you very much for initiating this dialog. It is greatly needed. Cheers

Doug

Thank you for your response Nolberto Munier, would you mind filling in my questionnaire so i can use your answers within my research paper??

Following

any updated information on QFD application?

the answer of this question can be divided in two types. national and international contract or investment. i think the taxation effect the international investment rather than national investment or contract. any way it depend on the country economical policy

Hi...

Adis is right.

Yes saad, that's very true especially in public-sector, I've also come across that. Am now looking into the private and partnering world, and surprisingly it is not so different. Although, like you said, there are instances where good practices occur. But am beginning to ponder whether the term 'collaborative costing' only exist at the TC setting! In the case of feasibility stage cost planning and later the point where contractors/suppliers are engage is still business as usual.

Dear Darmesh

attached you can find a work on Lean Construction and its impact on sustainability in Construction Industry

Waste starts at the preliminary stage (from feasibility study) to the hand over the project

To give a general answer: Crashing can take place any time after the critical path(s) is (are) identified regardless of the stage in the cycle!

This is usually a dynamic process that depends on both internal and external factors often times beyond the predictive ability of project managers!

what you mentioned is actually project procurement management which can be divided into 4 process groups; Planning, executing, monitoring and closing. I suggest you to refer pmbok guide since it is widely used as standard reference of industry best practices for project management

Add chips to hand working tools, to monitor % of time each tool is being used? Monitor the power of battery charged tools and bring charged batteries (using a drone?) right before the worker runs out of battery?

Similarly - monitoring gas, oil and temperature of heavy machinery, remotely. Also doing statistical analysis of their movement efficiency.

Attaching sensors to specific components, to monitor progress of construction. Say - attaching a sensor to a beam, and the activated sensor indicates you reached some % of construction progress - thus monitoring construction schedule progress passively, centralized. You can count exactly how many beams were put up that day... and analyse variation of working speed - potentially troubleshooting the bottlenecks.

Workers can be equipped with sensors, to make sure they get enough breaks. If they had life parameters measured, you could detect when someone is becoming dehydrated, overheating or otherwise sick. Besides the obvious "supervising", to evaluate work performance. This could allow to give bonus to the top performers more efficiently, to reward personal / team performance more efficiently.

IOT in a construction site... take a 5 year old with you, and ask him to say the names of everything he knows the name of. Then find a way to attach a WiFi chip on that thing... a hammer... a shoe... a shovel ... a concrete mixer... a truck ... a tire... a drill... a wall ... IOT everything - temperature, inclination, movement, shape, weight, sound, brightness.... everything :)

The use of continuous constructability review and early contracto involvement both have the potential to reduce not only physical waste on the construction site but also lost design effort during design.

To answer Peter's question. - A string is twice as long as half its length!

To answer the original question - pick a topic that isn't fashionable today and make a real contribution. My personal favorite at this point in time is: The impact on construction quality of the use of alternative delivery methods like ECI and Alliancing.

Thanks Mr. Samuel Frimpong. Professor Peter E.D Love, as always thanks a ton to you for being there to help with my queries so far.

Thank you so much Dr. Sunitha V. Doraisamy and Dr. Sevilay Demirkesen Çakır for providing more specific suggestions. I just wanted to see which method I can opt based on the ideas and objectives I had in my mind. I think analytical/quantitative method is what will best suit my this research. I am currently working on the questionnaire based on my research objectives and the literature review information.

I would say the iron triangle is a question of matter where the relations between project scope, time, cost, and quality management should be investigated. Even though all project management areas are of utmost importance, some are more critical depending on the construction project type. For your reference, I would be happy to share a research paper of mine that is just accepted for publication in Engineering Management Journal. It investigates the hypotheses of project management knowledge areas.

The question about how to control cost belongs to the category of totally outdated models of control.  While other industries have successfully moved from Roman-type to preventive management, this industry is not interested in modernizing its paradigm.  While other industries have doubled, quadrupled... their productivity  (according the the Economist, Agriculture in the US had a 16 fold increase) since 1960,  productivity of construction in the US is going down and down and is now below the level of 1960. Should the entire Academia be leading the change when observing clear evidence that the "state-of-practice" is moving in the wrong direction?   Does  Academia not have the responsibility to provide leadership pave the road for a paradigm change.  However, only a tiny number of papers are published that prove with field data the hypothesis the large benefits resulting from applying the Zero Muda paradigm (in safety, quality, and productivity).  Why is that?  How many textbooks does the Construction Academia have that explain and demonstrate the effect of preventive management?  How many centuries will it take until preventive thinking is able to change the direction of the mainstream "herd of sheep"?   When will Academia ensure that every student is able to think critically, possesses skills, knowledge and confidence to not blindly accept the mantra that says: "Don't change it until its broken". Eventually, they will become the leaders.

It is easy if you follow the normal DMAIC process. It gives you a good guideline or a framework. First of all, you have to define what you are going to improve in terms of variation and what is your ideal measurement to identify the real root cause.

Dear Uchenna

You can use TOPSIS without weights.

So, why do you want to complicate your problem?

If you want to use AHP in quantitative variables you can use these values to comnpte their relationships as you do in AHP, but here working with reliables and not estimated values correspondingt to the DM preferences

The choice of which constitutive model you will use to represent the behavior cement mortar, it will depends of the computacional program that you use. In Abaqus, I proposed to used the Damage Plasticy Concrete because it gave me better results. In Ansys, I achived better results using Morh Coulomb criteria.

In abaqus, you will need to provide parameters that represents the behaviour of mortar. This sitution can be resolved using numerical models that have been developed for other authors, or you can used the equactions proposide in standards, like EUROCODE. Generally, the numerical model for compression behaviour, it is provided using (stress x strain) curve, while for tracion, you can use energy fracture, or (stress x strain) curve, or even, (stress x displacement) curve. I this work i prefered use in tracion (stress x strain) curve.

But, In recents jobs I am prefering use energy fracture.

Hello Omar,

I suggest the following article:

file:///C:/Users/master/Downloads/11SO-Kane.pdf

Also, the following, although not a technical paper, does contain some useful tips:

Dear Ashraf .. thank you very much. I have received your response. 

I feel that it is difficult to come up with a single model that would works out everywhere. I did TNA for a banking sector years back. What I'd like to suggest is to carry out analysis from various levels: Institutional/sector specific issue, the nature of work(functions), and trainees. Moreover, the demand of the task/business and the existing KSA gap would lead to the training and development needs. In today's dynamism, particularly in the rapid technological changes, the future or potential demands also require due consideration.  

GIS is widely used in transportation planning and fixing alignment. You can use GIS data for study and by the same time you can develop good model by use of BIM. You can use civil 3D, google earth etc.

Thank You 

thank you very much for your replies

Pease, what do you think of decision making of design phase? do you think collaboration can help in decision making by using BIM/GIS?

Thank you for your insightful observation peter, I will sure amend for next time.

Please see the following useful link:

Even the road connected with each village well built under national standard. Very impressive indeed.

i consider that six sigma sucsses varies from country to country because each country local work environment ,legal issues and organizational procedures would affect the effectivness of implementation process.

The type of research secondary or primary or both would depend to a great extent on the objectives of the research and the reliability and accessibility of data. In case of research in Finance area with valid data bases a great amount of reported research is based on secondary data. It is usually better to triangulate the findings from different sources of data for more credibility.

Dear Dr. Rizaee,

One latest topic is designing (and implementation) of smart bridges (i.e. bridges that are actually cyber-physical systems with self-monitoring, self-regulation, self-resilience and self-tuning capabilities).

Kind regards,

Imre Horvath

Hai Muhibul

As a chairman, technically you need to establish :

1. Resources

2. Human Resources

3. Current flow activity of your resources

4. Simplify by using Performance Index Approach

5. Define your strategic Planning, New Objective,What You want achieve during your tenure, Start formulate any positive move that can enhance all your resources activity and boost your Performance Outcomes.

6. Remember ... the task is not an individual movement but must establish your own team(choose your assistant  team meticulously, use evidence base approach) that can meet your strategic planning goal.

7. Once establish then start to do your Strategic Planning Frame Work.

A BIM simulation on the queuing, inclement weather and acoustic diffusion models will be useful for your investigation. 

Good luck

Respected Dharmesh K. Oza sir,

This information of yours is really helpful. Also, thank you very much for your inputs.