Proposal for Tower Crane Productivity Indicators Based on Data Analysis in the Era of Construction 4.0
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CNRS, LAMcube—Laboratoire de Mécanique, University of Lille, Centrale Lille, UMR 9013, Multiphysique, Multiéchelle, 59000 Lille, France
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Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3136, USA
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Bouygues Construction, Challenger, 1, Avenue Eugène Freyssinet, Guyancourt, 78061 Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, France
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Buildings 2021, 11(1), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11010021
Received: 13 November 2020 / Revised: 11 December 2020 / Accepted: 30 December 2020 / Published: 6 January 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Construction 4.0)
This article proposes a methodology to measure the productivity of a construction site through the analysis of tower crane data. These data were obtained from a data logger that records a time series of spatial and load data from the lifting machine during the structural phase of a construction project. The first step was data collection, followed by preparation, which consisted of formatting and cleaning the dataset. Then, a visualization step identified which data was the most meaningful for the practitioners. From that, the activity of the tower crane was measured by extracting effective lifting operations using the load signal essentially. Having used such a sampling technique allows statistical analysis on the duration, load, and curvilinear distance of every extracted lifting operation. The build statistical distribution and indicators were finally used to compare construction site productivity.
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Keywords:
tower crane; productivity; construction site; datalogger
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Danel, T.; Lafhaj, Z.; Puppala, A.; Lienard, S.; Richard, P. Proposal for Tower Crane Productivity Indicators Based on Data Analysis in the Era of Construction 4.0. Buildings 2021, 11, 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11010021
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Danel T, Lafhaj Z, Puppala A, Lienard S, Richard P. Proposal for Tower Crane Productivity Indicators Based on Data Analysis in the Era of Construction 4.0. Buildings. 2021; 11(1):21. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11010021
Chicago/Turabian StyleDanel, Thomas; Lafhaj, Zoubeir; Puppala, Anand; Lienard, Sophie; Richard, Philippe. 2021. "Proposal for Tower Crane Productivity Indicators Based on Data Analysis in the Era of Construction 4.0" Buildings 11, no. 1: 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11010021
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