Publications / 2018 Proceedings of the 35th ISARC, Berlin, Germany

Project Production Flows in Off-Site Prefabrication: BIM-Enabled Railway Infrastructure

Mehrdad Arashpour, Yu Bai, Vineet Kamat, Reza Hosseini and Igor Martek
Pages 80-87 (2018 Proceedings of the 35th ISARC, Berlin, Germany, ISBN 978-3-00-060855-1, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract:

Railway infrastructure projects provide required physical and organizational facilities for transportation networks. Production flows in railway construction are complex especially when a hybrid of on - site and off - site processes is in progress. With railway projects still experiencing budget and time overruns, there is need to re-examine production flows. Towards this aim, a framework to investigate production flows in railway infrastructure projects is presented and discussed. A three - dimensional view of construction production including portfolio, process and operation aspects is found capable of improving performance measures in both design and construction. Such improvements include minimized rework and re-entrant flows, flexible prefabrication, enhanced multidisciplinary collaborations, and efficient planning of temporary works. This research contributes to the construction body of knowledge by examining production flows in a complex infrastructure setting. Construction managers would benefit from the presented model of production flows and its customization in the context of their projects to improve productivity and performance.

Keywords: Building Information Modeling, Construction Management, Design Complexity, Infrastructure Project Management, Reentrant Flows, Rework Minimization, Robotics, Shop drawings, Three dimensional models (3D), Uncertainty in Decision Making