Active BIM Approach to Optimize Work Facilities and Tower Crane Locations on Construction Sites with Repetitive Operations
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. A Short Overview of Recent Active BIM Approaches, Their Outcomes, and Shortcomings
3. Active BIM Approach for the Optimal Positioning of Tower Cranes and Facilities
3.1. Methodology of Structuring the Input Parameters Exported from BIM
3.2. Optimization Model Formulation
3.3. Optimization Problem Solution
4. Application Example
4.1. General Information and Input Parameters
- coordinates, material, and the required quantities of the demand points. In this case, the study materials were the masonry blocks and mortar needed for the construction of the first floor, the layout of which was repeated until the fourth floor (the demand points were the walls with quantities of blocks and mortar that they required. These were structured in 16 demand points in order to keep the variables to a reasonable number),
- coordinates of the feasible tower crane positions. The case study construction site was extremely narrow, which reduced the space for feasible tower crane positions, as well as the positions of the mortar plants (the base of the local coordinate system was set in the far left corner of a land plot),
- number and type of the available tower cranes. Since the case study was an ongoing construction site, the authors used the same tower crane as was used on the construction site (i.e., Liebherr’s 132 EC-H8 Litronic tower crane with technical data obtained from [30]) and used the actual crane’s position as the initial solution of the optimization. It is necessary to underline here that the crane model used in the BIM did not match the one mentioned earlier. However, the model used fit the purpose in terms of its dimensions and physical characteristics. The model of the crane had a static nature in the BIM model; the model also presents ist spatial and physical positioning. The crane’s capacity, with regard to the radius, was modeled as a logical two-part function where the first part is a linear function limited to 8000 kg up to a 15 m radius, while the second part is a cubic polynomial function up to a maximum radius of 55 m when the capacity is 1850 kg. The velocities of the crane’s operations were modeled according to the information given in [30], where the factors of the simultaneous operation relationships, suggested by the authors in [28], were taken into account.
4.2. Optimization and Results
5. Discussion and Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Dasović, B.; Galić, M.; Klanšek, U. Active BIM Approach to Optimize Work Facilities and Tower Crane Locations on Construction Sites with Repetitive Operations. Buildings 2019, 9, 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings9010021
Dasović B, Galić M, Klanšek U. Active BIM Approach to Optimize Work Facilities and Tower Crane Locations on Construction Sites with Repetitive Operations. Buildings. 2019; 9(1):21. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings9010021
Chicago/Turabian StyleDasović, Borna, Mario Galić, and Uroš Klanšek. 2019. "Active BIM Approach to Optimize Work Facilities and Tower Crane Locations on Construction Sites with Repetitive Operations" Buildings 9, no. 1: 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings9010021