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Ahmadian, F F A, Akbarnezhad, A, Rashidi, T H and Waller, S T (2016) Accounting for Transport Times in Planning Off-Site Shipment of Construction Materials. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Anvuur, A M and Kumaraswamy, M M (2016) Effects of Teamwork Climate on Cooperation in Crossfunctional Temporary Multi-Organization Workgroups. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Arashpour, M, Wakefield, R, Blismas, N and Abbasi, B (2016) Quantitative Analysis of Rate-Driven and Due Date–Driven Construction: Production Efficiency, Supervision, and Controllability in Residential Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Colin, J and Vanhoucke, M (2016) Empirical Perspective on Activity Durations for Project-Management Simulation Studies. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Project management; Empirical data; Classification; Simulated data;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001022
  • Abstract:
    Simulation has played an important role in project-management studies of the last decades, but in order for them to produce practical results, a realistic distribution model for activity durations is indispensable. The construction industry often has needed historical records of project executions, to serve as inputs to the distribution models, but a clearly outlined calibration procedure is not always readily available, nor are their results readily interpretable. This study seeks to illustrate how data from the construction industry can be used to derive realistic input distributions. Therefore, the Parkinson simulation model with a lognormal core is applied to a large empirical dataset from the literature and the results are described. From a discussion of these results, an empirical classification of project executions is presented. Three possible uses are presented for the calibration procedure and the classification in project management simulation studies. These were validated using a case study of a construction company.

El Asmar, M, Hanna, A S and Loh, W (2016) Evaluating Integrated Project Delivery Using the Project Quarterback Rating. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Joukar, A and Nahmens, I (2016) Volatility Forecast of Construction Cost Index Using General Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedastic Method. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Lu, W, Ye, M, Flanagan, R and Ye, K (2016) Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures in International Construction Business: Trends and Prospects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Park, J, Marks, E, Cho, Y K and Suryanto, W (2016) Performance Test of Wireless Technologies for Personnel and Equipment Proximity Sensing in Work Zones. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Plebankiewicz, E and Kubek, D (2016) Multicriteria Selection of the Building Material Supplier Using AHP and Fuzzy AHP. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Shahata, K and Zayed, T (2016) Integrated Risk-Assessment Framework for Municipal Infrastructure. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Siu, M F, Lu, M and AbouRizk, S (2016) Resource Supply-Demand Matching Scheduling Approach for Construction Workface Planning. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Zhao, D, McCoy, A P, Kleiner, B M, Du, J and Smith-Jackson, T L (2016) Decision-Making Chains in Electrical Safety for Construction Workers. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).

Zhao, D, McCoy, A P, Kleiner, B M, Smith-Jackson, T L and Liu, G (2016) Sociotechnical Systems of Fatal Electrical Injuries in the Construction Industry. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 142(01).