Multimethod Supply Chain Simulation Model for High-Rise Building Construction Projects
Authored by Minhyuk Jung, Moonseo Park, Hyun-Soo Lee, Seokho Chi
Date Published: 2018
DOI: 10.1061/(asce)cp.1943-5487.0000751
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Korean National Research Foundation (NRF)
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Abstract
Concurrently performed processes in high-rise building construction
create a need for materials to be supplied to construction sites in bulk
and all at once, whereas the on-site resources to handle such shipments
remain limited. In order to use these limited resources more
efficiently, they are shared by many types of material supply processes,
which can, in turn, increase the complexity of construction. This study
develops a multimethod simulation model for the analysis of the
complexity of supply chains in high-rise building construction, where
construction and material supply processes are interrelated in various
ways and influenced by resource sharing. This study examines
construction and material supply processes in the context of high-rise
building construction before reviewing multimethod modeling of discrete
event simulations and agent-based modeling in order to model those
processes. A simulation model is developed and simulation experiments
are conducted using actual data from a high-rise building construction
project, thereby analyzing the impact of resource sharing among various
material types. The major contributions of this study are its
development of a simulation model that can be used to analyze the impact
of sharing material storage space and hoisting equipment on the supply
chains of high-rise construction projects and its examination of the
pattern through which material supply processes interact with one
another due to the sharing of the seven limited resources by various
material types and their effect on the entire construction process. (C)
2018 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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