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dc.contributor.authorOjulari, Saidat
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-16 20:12:59 (GMT)
dc.date.available2022-05-16 20:12:59 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2022-05-16
dc.date.submitted2022-05-09
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/18283
dc.description.abstractThe majority of civil infrastructure projects involve activities that are repeated across a number of units (e.g., linear highway sections; or scattered multi-bridge repairs). While repetition represents a potential for benefiting from the economy of scale, reality is far different and infrastructure projects continue to exhibit large cost overruns, delays, and disputes. With existing solutions for scheduling repetitive projects unable to adequately cater to infrastructure projects, more efficient tools are needed to support efficient planning and resource management for such projects. To address this need, this research introduces a comprehensive scheduling framework able to address the unique challenges and decision-support requirements for linear and scattered projects. The framework presented improves on the existing integrated critical path method & line-of-balance repetitive scheduling formulation to better achieve synchronized completion of a project’s activities, which reduces both time and cost. The proposed framework also incorporates procedures to resolve resource constraints at both the individual-resource and the crew levels as well. To address the lack of efficient repetitive-scheduling solutions, a new easy-to-use interactive scheduling tool has been developed to combine the benefits of CPM/LOB calculations with the introduced schedule improvements, along with new clearer visualizations of all schedule details (i.e., activities, units, crews etc.). The scheduling improvements proposed in this research and the developed scheduling tool prototype were validated on case studies and proved to greatly facilitate the efficient planning and delivery for repetitive infrastructure projects, which represent an increasing portion of construction business and are most challenging to execute.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectrepetitive schedulingen
dc.subjectrepetitive projectsen
dc.subjectconstruction projectsen
dc.subjectinfrastructure projectsen
dc.subjectconstruction software toolsen
dc.subjectconstruction project schedulingen
dc.subjectconstruction project planningen
dc.subjectconstruction project managementen
dc.subjectproject managementen
dc.subjectlinear projectsen
dc.subjectscattered projectsen
dc.subjectCPMen
dc.subjectCPM/LOBen
dc.subjectscheduling toolen
dc.subjectrepetitive infrastructure projecten
dc.subjectcivil infrastructure projectsen
dc.subjectresource managementen
dc.subjectrepetitive project visualizationen
dc.subjectcritical path methoden
dc.subjectline-of-balanceen
dc.titleComprehensive Repetitive Scheduling for Linear and Scattered Infrastructure Projectsen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalse
uws-etd.degree.departmentCivil and Environmental Engineeringen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineCivil Engineeringen
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Applied Scienceen
uws-etd.embargo.terms0en
uws.contributor.advisorHegazi, Tarek
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Engineeringen
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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