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Aibinu, A A, Ofori, G and Ling, F Y (2008) Explaining Cooperative Behavior in Building and Civil Engineering Projects’ Claims Process: Interactive Effects of Outcome Favorability and Procedural Fairness. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 681–91.

Chan, E H and Au, M C (2008) Relationship between Organizational Sizes and Contractors’ Risk Pricing Behaviors for Weather Risk under Different Project Values and Durations. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 673–80.

Lucko, G (2008) Productivity Scheduling Method Compared to Linear and Repetitive Project Scheduling Methods. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 711–20.

Ndekugri, I, Braimah, N and Gameson, R (2008) Delay Analysis within Construction Contracting Organizations. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 692–700.

Ng, S T and Zhang, Y (2008) Optimizing Construction Time and Cost Using Ant Colony Optimization Approach. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 721–8.

Peña-Mora, F, Han, S, Lee, S and Park, M (2008) Strategic-Operational Construction Management: Hybrid System Dynamics and Discrete Event Approach. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 701–10.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Hybrid methods; Simulation models; Cost control; Construction management; Discrete elements;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2008)134:9(701)
  • Abstract:
    A significant number of large-scale civil infrastructure projects experience cost overruns and schedule delays. To minimize these disastrous consequences, management actions need to be carefully examined at both the strategic and operational levels, as their effectiveness is mainly dependent on how well strategic perspectives and operational details of a project are balanced. However, current construction project management approaches have treated the strategic and operational issues separately, and consequently introduced a potential conflict between strategic and operational analyses. To address this issue, a hybrid simulation model is presented in this paper. This hybrid model combines system dynamics and discrete event simulation which have mainly been utilized to analyze the strategic and operational issues in isolation, respectively. As an application example, a nontypical repetitive earthmoving process is selected and simulated. The simulation results demonstrate that a systematic integration of strategic perspective and operational details is helpful to enhance the process performance by enabling construction managers to identify potential process improvement areas that traditional approaches may miss. Based on the simulation results, it is concluded that the proposed hybrid simulation model has great potential to support both the strategic and operational aspects of construction project management and to ultimately help increase project performance.

Sohail, M and Cavill, S (2008) Accountability to Prevent Corruption in Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 729–38.

Wong, J M W, Chan, A P C and Chiang, Y H (2008) Modeling and Forecasting Construction Labor Demand: Multivariate Analysis. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 664–72.

Zhang, H and Wang, J Y (2008) Particle Swarm Optimization for Construction Site Unequal-Area Layout. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134(09), 739–48.