Site Layout of Construction Temporary Facilities Using Enhanced-Geographic Information System ( GIS )

This article will focus on the development of automatic site layout system for temporary construction facilities. Temporary facility site layout (TF) is an important preliminary planning work that may increase building productivity or adversely affect. Efficient TF layout can greatly reduce construction contradiction and increase project efficiency. In this study, the ArcSite system was developed to help project managers determine the appropriate areas for finding TF. ArcSite consists of GIS ... Read More

In this research, we developed an automatic site layout system for building temporary facilities (TF). A system that includes a database management system (DBMS) and an integrated geographic information system (CIS) ArcSite is a new tool that helps designers identify areas suitable for TF placement. ArcSite includes algorithm-specific knowledge for integrating and automating construction site layouts, TF databases, Arc / Info databases, and TF layout designs. This system proposes a method to acquire expert knowledge in site planning and systematically acquire and interpret that knowledge and experience. Using the concept of eliminating searches, the system has developed a heuristic approach to simulate the human decision making process and to generate potential sites for each TF. Through qualitative and quantitative modeling of facility relations, we developed an objective function called proximity index to determine the optimum position of each TF.

This article will focus on the development of automatic site layout system for temporary construction facilities. Temporary facility site layout (TF) is an important preliminary planning work that may increase building productivity or adversely affect. Efficient TF layout can greatly reduce construction contradiction and increase project efficiency. In this study, the ArcSite system was developed to help project managers determine the appropriate areas for finding TF. ArcSite consists of GIS ... Read More

Site layout of temporary building facilities using extended geographic information system (GIS)

Temporary facility layout is an important task at the planning stage of each construction project; site layout may affect safety, travel cost and time, building productivity and space utilization. However, because influencing factors are interdependent, planning the site layout can be a complicated problem. The interaction between activities is one of the main driving force of the website layout plan, but it has not been resolved correctly in the previous investigation. In this study, simulation was used as a promising tool to deal with this gap. The ability of simulation technology to model complex processes in architectural projects makes it effective to use simulation tools in field layout optimization problems, which in some cases can not completely simulate these problems. Furthermore, we evaluated the advantages and problems of running simulation and proposed a general framework for simulation application in site layout plan.