Knowledge Management for Construction Scheduling

Construction scheduling, as a part of project managers’ activities, is tedious and time-consuming. The reuse of knowledge from successfully executed projects would help to reduce this effort. Within this paper a concept for modeling and storing construction objectives is introduced in detail. A case-based reasoning approach is implemented to retain and compare construction projects. The generic language Feature Logic is applied for case representation. Building elements are defined by Industry Foundation Classes. Furthermore, similarity measure evaluations are introduced to reuse stored execution solutions represented by construction schedules. The functionality of the suggested approach is validated in a pre-cast component case study. The introduced approach offers support for the planning process in particular.

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