17th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction - Taipei, Taiwan - 2009

Simulation-Based Scheduling Model for Multiple Design Projects

Jang-Jeng Liu1 & Wie-Chih Wang2

1Graduate student, Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu 300, Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected].
2Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu 300, Taiwan. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract

A design firm often needs to allocate various types of design resources or participants to the multi-disciplinary activities of various design projects. Each of these design projects is undertaken either in a proposal phase, basic design phase, detailed design phase, or construction phase of a building project. Effective allocation of the design participants to activities depends on how the design activities of these design projects are scheduled. But the effect which is caused by design iterations in schedule and resource isn’t considered before. This study finds design iterations by DSM and other methods and develops a simulation-based scheduling model to effective allocate design participants to multiple design projects under the effect of design iteration. This model is helpful to find how to lean the design schedule and design resources. Particularly, simulation algorithms are proposed to model the uncertainties of design iterations, draw amounts of iterations, design participants’ man hour, and activity durations. The operation of the model is demonstrated by applying it to a Taiwanese design firm who deals with multiple design projects.

Keywords

Multi-project, design iteration; design schedule; design process; simulation

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Liu, J. & Wang, W. 2009. Simulation-Based Scheduling Model for Multiple Design Projects, 17th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction , 523-532. doi.org/

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