Dear Colleagues,
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Call for Participation for Workshop on “Integrated Process Planning and Scheduling for Industrialising Construction: Design, Manufacture and Assembly”
(https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/half-day-workshop-on-integrated-process-planning-and-scheduling-for-industrialising-construction-tickets-24836928923)
This workshop is organised in collaboration with the Knowledge Transfer Network (Built Environment Community) & Innovate UK.
Date: 13 June 2016
Venue: Room 207, Skempton (Civil Eng.) Building, Imperial College Road, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, SW7 2BU
Audience: Open to all interested parties (free of charge)
Registration Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/half-day-workshop-on-integrated-process-planning-and-scheduling-for-industrialising-construction-tickets-24836928923
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This multidisciplinary workshop will investigate a new Planning and Scheduling (P&S) challenge within industrialising construction (Design, Manufacture and Assembly) by bringing together leading experts from academia and industry active in the field of civil engineering and computer science (with focus on P&S construction projects). The construction sector experiences a pattern change from building components on-site to prefabricating them in a factory environment. This shift towards prefabrication allows multiple activities to be performed concurrently off-site, where the same activities were previously required to have start-to-finish relationships on-site. Some benefits of prefabrication include cost savings, schedule acceleration, improved quality and safer work environments. Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) is a simultaneous design and engineering approach where components are manufactured and sub-assembled or assembled in a factory or warehouse, before being delivered to a construction site for installation. This new construction strategy underlines the need for applying and developing advanced P&S techniques to have efficient and integrated project delivery methods. This workshop will therefore explore the most recent P&S methods to integrate and optimise operational plans in large construction projects using DfMA techniques.
Workshop Format:
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The program of this workshop will include a variety of invited talks to review the P&S challenges using DfMA techniques in the construction industry, explore different solutions using exact/heuristic techniques, outline the excising and recent advances in P&S systems, and investigate project plan execution methodologies in order to establish strategies for generating integrated operational plans which can be employed in future prefabricated projects. The workshop will finish with a round table discussion on the future directions and research needs for integrating process planning and scheduling for industrialising construction. The workshop will also act as a platform for wider discussions and encourage multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers, construction engineers, factory workflow planners and standards institutes.
Invited Speakers (In alphabetical order):
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• Dr Panagiotis Angeloudis, Lecturer in Urban Engineering Systems, Imperial College London
• Andy Gardner, Structural Engineer, Arup Group, Ltd.
• Dr D. Landa-Silva, Associate Professor in Computer Science, The University of Nottingham
• Adam Locke, Engineering Excellence Group Laing O Rourke
• Mike Moseley, Knowledge Transfer Manager (construction), The Knowledge Transfer Network
• Michael Richards, Project Director of Crossrail Project at Liverpool Street Stations, Laing O'Rourke
• Professor J. Whyte, Professor of Systems Integration, Laing O'Rourke / Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Systems Integration
Organising Committee:
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• Dr Bani Anvari (Imperial College London)
• Dr Panagiotis Angeloudis (Imperial College London)
• Professor Washington Y. Ochieng (Imperial College London)
• Adam Locke (Laing O’Rourke)
• Mike Moseley (The Knowledge Transfer Network)
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