Automated Generation of Work Spaces Required by Construction Activities
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Volume 128, Issue 4
Abstract
To provide a safe and productive environment, project managers need to plan for the work spaces required by construction activities. Work space planning involves representing various types of spaces required by construction activities in three dimensions and across time. Since a construction schedule consists of hundreds of activities requiring multiple types of spaces, it is practically impossible to expect project managers to specify manually the spatiotemporal data necessary to represent work spaces in four dimensions. This paper presents mechanisms that automatically generate project-specific work spaces from a generic work space ontology and a project-specific IFC (industry foundation class) based 4D production model. The generation of these work spaces leads to a space-loaded production model. Within this model, work spaces are represented as being related to the relevant construction activities and methods and as having attributes that describe when, where, and how long they exist, and how much volume they occupy. These space-loaded production models enable richer 4D CAD simulations, time-space conflict analysis, and proactive work space planning prior to construction.
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Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 128 • Issue 4 • August 2002
Pages: 306 - 315
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Copyright © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Jul 13, 2000
Accepted: Feb 2, 2001
Published online: Jul 15, 2002
Published in print: Aug 2002
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