Advancing project planning and control techniques to improve productivity and competitiveness in industrial construction engineering and management

工业建设和维修项目的规划和控制尤其具有挑战性，因为它必须考虑到多条工作战线，劳动力规模大，工作区域集中和拥挤，以及投产和投产的固定日期。在为期五年的时间里，这笔CRD赠款将与艾伯塔省的四家工业建筑公司合作，解决工业建设和维护项目计划和控制的各个方面，包括研究和开发先进技术，用于(1)调度和物流模拟，(2)增强现实和混合现实建模，(3)设备运动学建模和多站点分配调度，以及(4)通过人工神经网络校准的智能无线传感器网络，用于精确的资源跟踪和定位。拟议的CRD将培训8名HQ，包括4名博士生和4名硕士生。关于集成系统的原型，拟议的CRD将重点解决与大规模、可重复使用的建模、标准化开发和各种模拟方法的集成有关的问题。特别是，CRD将利用Co-I的NSERC/Alberta IRC计划中COSYE框架的最新发展，这是一个基于高层体系结构(HLA)的模拟环境，以集成不同的软件和信息技术，并简化建筑工程中大规模、协作或集成模型的开发。这个CRD项目将通过协同研发努力推进最先进的项目计划和控制方法，提高四家合作公司和整个艾伯塔省建筑业的竞争力。从长远来看，这项研究将有助于加拿大建筑业的工业部门在全球范围内具有竞争力。我们预计，在可预见的未来，在工业建筑工程和管理领域，世界将转向加拿大，寻求卓越的研究和教育以及最佳实践。

Planning and control of industrial construction and maintenance projects is especially challenging, because it must take into consideration multiple work fronts, the large size of the workforce, the concentrated and congested work areas, and the fixed dates for commissioning and starting up production. Over a time span of five years and in collaboration with four industrial construction companies in Alberta, this CRD grant will address various facets of planning and control of industrial construction and maintenance projects, including research and development of advanced techniques for (1) scheduling and logistics simulation, (2) augmented reality and mixed reality modeling, (3) equipment kinematics modeling plus multisite allocation scheduling, and (4) intelligent wireless sensor networks calibrated by artificial neural networks for precise resource tracking and positioning. The proposed CRD will train eight HQPs, including four PhD students and four Master's students. With respect to prototyping integrated systems, the proposed CRD will be focused on addressing issues related to large-scale, reusable modeling with standardized development and integration of various simulation methods. In particular, the CRD will capitalize on the recent development of the COSYE framework from the Co-I's NSERC/Alberta IRC program, which is a high level architecture (HLA) based simulation environment, to integrate different software and information technologies and streamline the development of large-scale, collaborative or integrated models in construction engineering. This CRD project will enhance the competitiveness of the four partner companies and the Alberta construction industry at large through a concerted R & D effort into advancing state-of-the-art methods for project planning and control. In the longer term, this research will contribute to making the industrial sector of the Canadian construction industry competitive globally. We envision in the foreseeable future, in the domain of industrial construction engineering and management, the world will turn to Canada in search of excellence in research and education as well as best practices.