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Assaad, R, El-Adaway, I H and Abotaleb, I S (2020) Predicting Project Performance in the Construction Industry. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Chan, A P C, Chiang, Y, Wong, F K, Liang, S and Abidoye, F A (2020) Work–Life Balance for Construction Manual Workers. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Firouzi, A and Khayyati, M (2020) Bayesian Updating of Copula-Based Probabilistic Project-Duration Model. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Gao, N and Touran, A (2020) Cost Overruns and Formal Risk Assessment Program in US Rail Transit Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Hacker, M E, Kaminsky, J, Faust, K M and Rauch, S (2020) Regulatory Enforcement Approaches for Mass Population Displacement. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Hasanzadeh, S, de la Garza, J M and Geller, E S (2020) Latent Effect of Safety Interventions. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Hu, Q, Bai, Y, He, L, Cai, Q, Tang, S, Ma, G, Tan, J and Liang, B (2020) Intelligent Framework for Worker-Machine Safety Assessment. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Hua, Y, He, J, Gong, J and Zhao, J (2020) Hazardous Area Risk-Based Evacuation Simulation and Analysis of Building Construction Sites. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Krechowicz, M (2020) Comprehensive Risk Management in Horizontal Directional Drilling Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Liu, C, AbouRizk, S, Morley, D and Lei, Z (2020) Data-Driven Simulation-Based Analytics for Heavy Equipment Life-Cycle Cost. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Liu, J and Lu, M (2020) Synchronized Optimization of Various Management-Function Schedules in a Multiproject Environment: Case Study of Planning Steel Girder Fabrication Projects in Bridge Construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Lu, W, Xu, J and Söderlund, J (2020) Exploring the Effects of Building Information Modeling on Projects: Longitudinal Social Network Analysis. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Martínez-Rocamora, A, García-Alvarado, R, Casanova-Medina, E, González-Böhme, L F and Auat-Cheein, F (2020) Parametric Programming of 3D Printed Curved Walls for Cost-Efficient Building Design. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Navon, R (2020) The Last Lecture: The Need for Civil Engineering Education to Stimulate Thinking Instead of Only Teaching. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Nguyen, P H D, Tran, D and Lines, B C (2020) Fuzzy Set Theory Approach to Classify Highway Project Characteristics for Delivery Selection. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Okonkwo, P N and Wium, J (2020) Health and Safety Management Systems within Construction Contractor Organizations: Case Study of South Africa. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Pan, M and Pan, W (2020) Understanding the Determinants of Construction Robot Adoption: Perspective of Building Contractors. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Raoufi, M and Fayek, A R (2020) Fuzzy Monte Carlo Agent-Based Simulation of Construction Crew Performance. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Song, M H and Fischer, M (2020) Generating a Daily Bill of Materials at Level of Development 400 Using the Smallest Workface Boundary. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Tomczak, M and JaÅ›kowski, P (2020) New Approach to Improve General Contractor Crew’s Work Continuity in Repetitive Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

  • Type: Journal Article
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  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0001824
  • Abstract:
    A significant number of construction projects involve repetitive processes. Planning them occurs to be a complex task. Network methods traditionally applied to construction scheduling prove inefficient in the case of repetitive construction projects (RCPs) due to the increased number of relationships among processes, locations (units), and resources. Frequently, the aim of scheduling RCPs is making the full use of the resources’ capacity, thereby ensuring continuity of the crews’ work. To achieve this, the planner typically allows discontinuity of some secondary processes to shift resources to the key processes, allowing optional modes of process delivery and introducing soft precedence relations between processes. This paper presents a new way of increasing the continuity of work of a general contractor’s crews in RCPs by employing subcontractors’ crews. A deterministic mathematical model of the mixed-integer linear problem of a repetitive (nonlinear) project was formulated to find a schedule that minimizes the downtime of the general contractor’s crews under constraints of a maximum acceptable total project duration and a maximum acceptable cost of the works commissioned to subcontractors; the model accounts for the limited availability of crews. Application of the model is illustrated by an example.

Wondimu, P A, Klakegg, O J, Lohne, J and Lædre, O (2020) Experiences with Best-Value Procurement in Norway and the Netherlands. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Yu, T, Liang, X and Wang, Y (2020) Factors Affecting the Utilization of Big Data in Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).

Zhang, X, Li, Y and Wu, D (2020) Developing an Underground Utility Occupation Index for Efficient Urban Utilities Planning. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(05).