TY  - CONF
TI  - Understanding Labour Productivity as an Emergent Property of Individual and Crew Interactions on a Construction Site
C1  - East Lansing, Michigan, USA
C3  - 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
SP  - 400
EP  - 405
PY  - 2007
AU  - Watkins, Matt
AU  - Mukherjee, Amlan
AU  - Onder, Nilufer
AU  - Mattila, Kris G.
AD  - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Michigan Tech. USA Phone +1 906- 487-1952, mtwatkin@mtu.edu
AD  - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Env. Engineering, Michigan Tech.. USA Phone +1 906- 487-1952, amukherj@mtu.edu
AD  - Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Michigan Tech.. USA Phone +1 906-487- 1641, nilufer@mtu.edu
AD  - Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Env. Engineering, Michigan Tech.. USA Phone +1 906- 487-2523, mattila@mtu.edu
ED  - Pasquire, C.L, Christine L.
ED  - Tzortzopoulos, Patricia 
AB  - The construction site is a complex system composed of interactions in space between individual crewmembers and crews. Congestion often leads to lowered productivity. Lean construction research has shown that effective work flow management can improve construction labour performance, and labour flow contributes to lean work flow. The existing body of research in the study of construction labour productivity has primarily used a top-down approach to modelling and understanding the impacts of space congestion on labour productivity. In this paper, we propose a bottom-up approach and explore whether labour productivity on a construction site can be treated as an emergent property resulting from interactions between individual crewmembers and different crews. We present our pilot implementation and initial results depicting the relative value of various areas of space and the effect of the number of available tasks on congestion.
KW  - Agent Based Modelling
KW  - Productivity
KW  - Space Allocation
PB  - 
T2  - 15th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
DA  - 2007/07/18
CY  - East Lansing, Michigan, USA
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/539/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/539
N1  - Export Date: 26 April 2024
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -