Real-time scheduling and performance evaluation tool for house erection

Traditional stick-built can take weeks to reach the lockup stage of a single house and leaves the house exposed for long time, while a single home can be built by using modular construction within a few days, which is much quicker. In addition, using advanced technology to achieve automated and standardized operations is the target within a business. Traditional building construction may have limited capacity to explore such advances approaches, however, modular construction companies are exceptions since the products are built in the facilities. Many existing research emphasize the operations in the facilities while limited research explores on site assembly part. ACQBuilt, as an advanced panelized home construction company, is approaching a highly automated and standardized operations for building homes. The project is targeting to help ACQBuilt to explore on-site operations by developing systematic time data collection platform, setting up standard operation procedures, optimizing crew management strategies and providing timely feedback to the crews to improve their productivity. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop a real-time scheduling and performance evaluation tool for site erection and back framing process.

Faculty Supervisor:

Xinming Li

Student:

Partner:

ACQBuilt Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Alberta

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