| A Construction Site Layout Planning Decision-making System Contributor(s): Ning Xin (Author) |
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ISBN: 3639227921 ISBN-13: 9783639227925 Publisher: VDM Verlag OUR PRICE: $81.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Construction - General - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General - Technology & Engineering | Civil - General |
| Dewey: 624 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.09 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An optimal construction site layout planning (CSLP) can enhancing the services of the construction work to improve the work productivity and thus the costs of a project. The previous studies of CSLP centralized on the equal-area and static site layout planning, which is idealized but practical unequal- area and dynamic planning studies are limited. In order to enhance the knowledge and practices of solving unequal-area and dynamic problems, the CSLP decision-making system using ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms is proposed in the study. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed CSLP decision-making system were tested and verified by two projects. The results showed that the proposed CSLP decision-making system can select a good site layout, which reduced the project costs significantly by comparing with the original site layouts. CSLP decision-making system will assist the practitioners in the construction industry to deliver construction projects in a more efficient and effective manner, thus to reduce construction costs significantly. |