NSERC Industrial Research Chair in strategic construction modeling and delivery

建筑业的经营环境具有相当大的风险和不确定性，这在很大程度上是因为建筑过程涉及人的活动和主观判断。建设项目往往代表着来自多方的巨额投资，但建模和预测它们将以何种方式展开是一项艰巨的任务。在进行影响时间、劳动力、金钱和材料分配的分析时，专家们很难捕捉到建筑的主观、人为因素。模糊逻辑是一种精确的数学建模技术，专门为处理自然语言和近似推理而设计。NSERC工业研究主席(IRC)在战略建筑建模和交付方面的主要目标是推动模糊逻辑领域的发展，并将其与其他建模技术相结合，包括系统动力学、基于代理的建模和人工智能技术，以创建可行、适用的方法来解决与建筑相关的问题和开发决策支持系统。第二个目标是将开发的方法应用到一些实际应用中，以解决建筑中与交付相关的战略问题，以改善项目结果，并增加我们合作伙伴组织的盈利能力、技术成熟度和竞争表现。基于我们以前IRC术语的成功，我们将研究集中在五个关键领域：(1)建筑项目生产力，包括劳动动机和行为；(2)建筑组织能力和绩效；(3)风险分析和缓解；(4)研究和开发的影响评估；以及(5)应用项目实践和行业工具。这项研究旨在为我们的合作伙伴组织和整个建筑业所采用的流程和工具带来立竿见影的重大创新。这些资源将帮助组织缩小专业知识和内部资源方面的差距，进而在地方、国家和国际范围内保持盈利和竞争力，即使在经济不稳定的时期也是如此。

The construction industry operates in an environment of considerable risk and uncertainty, due largely to the fact that construction processes involve human activities and subjective judgment. Construction projects frequently represent large investments from numerous parties, but modeling and predicting the ways in which they will unfold is a difficult task. Experts struggle to capture the subjective, human elements of construction when conducting analyses that affect the allocation of time, labour, money, and materials. Fuzzy logic is a precise mathematical modeling technique that is specifically designed to handle natural language andapproximate reasoning. The primary objective of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Strategic Construction Modeling and Delivery is to advance the field of fuzzy logic and combine it with other modeling techniques, including systems dynamics, agent-based modeling, and artificial intelligence techniques, in order to create workable, applicable approaches for solving construction-related problems and developing decision support systems. A secondary objective is to apply the developed methods to a number of practical applications for solving strategic, delivery-related issues in construction in order to improve project outcomes and increase the profitability, technological sophistication, and competitive performance of our partner organizations.Building on the successes of our previous IRC terms, we have focused our research on five key areas: (1) construction project productivity, including labour motivation and behaviour; (2) construction organizational competencies and performance; (3) risk analysis and mitigation; (4) assessment of impacts of research and development; and (5) applied project practices and industry tools. This research is designed to produce immediate and significant innovation in the processes and tools employed by both our partner organizations and the construction industry as a whole. These resources will help organizations close gaps in expertise andinternal resources and, in turn, remain profitable and competitive on a local, national, and international scale, even during times of economic instability.