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Abdelhamid, T S and Everett, J G (2002) Physiological Demands during Construction Work. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 427–37.

Bernold, L E (2002) Spatial Integration in Construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 400–8.

Cheung, S, Suen, H C H and Lam, T (2002) Fundamentals of Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes in Construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 409–17.

Jonasson, S, Dunston, P S, Ahmed, K and Hamilton, J (2002) Factors in Productivity and Unit Cost for Advanced Machine Guidance. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 367–74.

Karumanasseri, G and AbouRizk, S (2002) Decision Support System for Scheduling Steel Fabrication Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 392–9.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Scheduling; Project planning; Steel fibers; Decision support systems; scheduling; steel manufacture; project management; planning; decision support systems; civil engineering;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2002)128:5(392)
  • Abstract:
    One of the most important and difficult problems faced by the steel fabrication industry is the planning and scheduling of shop activities. Competitive pressures force fabricators to disrupt schedules in progress to accommodate frequent requests from key customers for changes in design and/or delivery schedules. Capacity management is a complex problem and is key to proper management of manufacturing/fabrication activities. This paper presents a decision support system for planning and scheduling of steel fabrication projects. Although the immediate application of this approach is steel fabrication, its fundamental heuristic approach can be applied to any construction job shop scheduling exercise. Its main advantage over techniques such as CPM is that it is resource driven; its advantages over simulation techniques are its simplicity and overall schedule development time.

Kululanga, G K, Price, A D F and McCaffer, R (2002) Empirical Investigation of Construction Contractors' Organizational Learning. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 385–91.

Ling, Y Y (2002) Model for Predicting Performance of Architects and Engineers. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 446–55.

Lu, M (2002) Enhancing Project Evaluation and Review Technique Simulation through Artificial Neural Network-based Input Modeling. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 438–45.

Mawdesley, M J, Al-jibouri, S H and Yang, H (2002) Genetic Algorithms for Construction Site Layout in Project Planning. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 418–26.

Mohamed, S (2002) Safety Climate in Construction Site Environments. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 375–84.

Skitmore, M and Ng, S T (2002) Analytical and Approximate Variance of Total Project Cost. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 128(05), 456–60.