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Objectives

This multidisciplinary workshop will investigate a new Planning and Scheduling (P&S) challenge within industrialising construction (Design, Manufacture and Assembly) by bringing together leading experts from academia and industry active in the field of civil engineering and computer science (with focus on P&S construction projects). The construction sector experiences a pattern change from uilding components on-site to prefabricating them in a factory environment. This shift towards prefabrication allows multiple activities to be performed concurrently off-site, where the same activities were previously required to have start-to-finish relationships on-site. Some benefits of prefabrication include cost savings, schedule acceleration, improved quality and safer work environments. Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) is a simultaneous design and engineering approach where components are manufactured and sub-assembled or assembled in a factory or warehouse, before being delivered to a construction site for installation. This new construction strategy underlines the need for applying and developing advanced P&S techniques to have efficient and integrated project delivery methods. This workshop will therefore explore the most recent P&S methods to integrate and optimise operational plans in large construction projects using DfMA techniques.

Workshop Format

The program of this workshop will include a variety of invited talks to review the P&S challenges using DfMA techniques in the construction industry, explore different solutions using exact/heuristic techniques, outline the excising and recent advances in P&S systems, and investigate project plan execution methodologies in order to establish strategies for generating integrated operational plans which can be employed in future prefabricated projects. The workshop will finish with a round table discussion on the future directions and research needs for integrating process planning and scheduling for industrialising construction. The workshop will also act as a platform for wider discussions and encourage multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers, construction engineers, factory workflow planners and standards institutes.

Intended Audience

Researchers and industrial experts in the fields of planning and scheduling, optimisation, integrated P&S systems, software engineering, prefabrication, manufacturing and civil engineering. The organising committee expects between 35-50 participants.