Measuring project health and engineering progress in complex capital projects at early phases

在复杂的资本项目的早期阶段衡量项目的健康状况和工程进度

• 批准号: 503252-2016
• 负责人: Haas, Carl
• 金额: $ 2.33万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=609391
• 关键词: Measuring; project; health; engineering; progress

Improved measurement of project health and engineering progress at the early phases of complex capital projects is required in order to improve their performance. On a ten billion dollar capital project, performance failures can cost billions in cost overruns. Therefore, the objective of this research project is to develop algorithms for measuring project health and engineering progress in complex capital projects at early phases by integrating BIM and IM, and to develop methods to visualize this progress and health in semantically rich and useful forms. To achieve this objective, relations among currently dominant collaboration and management systems used for the early phases of complex projects must be developed. Such systems include Interface Management Systems (IMS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) systems (as well as their industrial and infrastructure equivalents), and conventional Critical Path Method (CPM) based project management systems. Awareness of associate services such as collaboration, document, electronic product, process, workflow and database management systems is required, as well as cloud computing services. Using these systems, automation and visualization of progress and health measurements will be demonstrated. Validation of the algorithms and methods developed will include experts' assessments, case studies, functional demonstration, and modified mutation testing techniques that have been successfully used in software engineering projects to detect code problems. As a result of the research, project participants and stakeholders will have a new set of tools that will help them more successfully manage the early phases of complex capital projects. Thus, what we pay for complex capital projects should decrease.

需要在复杂资本项目的早期阶段改进项目健康和工程进展的度量，以改进其绩效。在一个100亿美元的资本项目中，性能失败可能会造成数十亿美元的成本超支。因此，本研究项目的目标是开发算法，通过集成BIM和IM，在复杂资本项目的早期阶段测量项目健康和工程进展，并开发方法，以语义丰富和有用的形式将这种进展和健康可视化。为了实现这一目标，必须发展当前用于复杂项目早期阶段的主要协作和管理系统之间的关系。这些系统包括接口管理系统（IMS）、建筑信息模型（BIM）系统（以及它们的工业和基础设施等效系统）和基于传统关键路径方法（CPM）的项目管理系统。需要了解相关服务，如协作、文档、电子产品、流程、工作流和数据库管理系统，以及云计算服务。使用这些系统，将演示进度和健康测量的自动化和可视化。所开发的算法和方法的验证将包括专家的评估、案例研究、功能演示，以及已经成功地在软件工程项目中用于检测代码问题的修改的突变测试技术。研究的结果是，项目参与者和利益相关者将拥有一套新的工具，帮助他们更成功地管理复杂资本项目的早期阶段。因此，我们为复杂的资本项目支付的费用应该减少。