Planning and Scheduling Consideration and Constraints in Automated Construction Environment

Abstract

Project planning functions are to establish project activities, their logical relationships and interrelationships to each other, and the sequences in which they are to be accomplished. The process of assigning activities' duration and identifying the start and completion times of activities and project is considered as project scheduling. Project planning and scheduling is one of the most important pre-construction tasks determining the success or failure of the project in relation to time. In an automated construction environment employing automated equipment or machines to perform specific or major tasks, some conditions or constraints impacting activities' planning and scheduling are different from those of the conventional construction environment. Therefore, management needs to pay careful attention in determining the planning process and specific constraints set forth by automated equipment or machines. Otherwise, accurate pre-construction project schedule may not be obtained due to inaccurate planning assumptions.