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

工业建设和维护项目的规划和控制尤其具有挑战性，因为它必须考虑多个工作面、庞大的劳动力规模、集中和拥挤的工作区域以及调试和启动生产的固定日期。在五年的时间跨度内，与阿尔伯塔的四家工业建筑公司合作，该CRD赠款将解决工业建筑和维护项目规划和控制的各个方面，包括研究和开发先进技术（1）调度和物流模拟，（2）增强现实和混合现实建模，（3）设备运动学建模加上多站点分配调度，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将培养8名HQP，包括4名博士生和4名硕士生。关于原型集成系统，拟议的CRD将集中在解决与大规模，可重复使用的建模与标准化开发和集成的各种模拟方法的问题。 特别是，CRD将利用COSYE框架的最新发展，该框架来自Co-I的NSERC/阿尔伯塔IRC计划，这是一个基于高层体系结构（HLA）的仿真环境，以整合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。该CRD项目将通过协调一致的研发努力，推进最先进的项目规划和控制方法，增强四家合作伙伴公司和整个阿尔伯塔建筑行业的竞争力。从长远来看，这项研究将有助于使加拿大建筑业的工业部门在全球具有竞争力。我们设想在可预见的未来，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.