An integrated hybrid modeling framework for construction project delivery

加拿大的工业基础依赖于基础设施和设施，这些基础设施是由被称为资本项目行业的建筑业的一个部门规划、设计、建造和运营的。根据加拿大统计局的预测，仅2011年一年，这些项目的投资就将达到约1450亿美元。它们的交付的改进将极大地影响国家的总体生产力，并最终影响我国的经济福利。据估计，可能的成本降低从5%到15%不等，这意味着可能节省数十亿美元。专家们一致认为，一个主要的改进领域涉及解决项目和公司层面的挑战，例如动态和不确定的建设环境、一次性项目、缺乏促进项目参与者之间无缝集成和协作的全行业信息技术标准，以及在没有适当框架的情况下仓促和无组织地传播先进技术和设备等问题。这项研究计划将专注于创造新知识并将其应用于建设项目交付过程，努力实现先进技术的集成、自动化和同化的愿景。我们将推行流程自动化，以支持有效的项目交付，创建精简、高效和自动化的建筑作业，并推动建筑作业建模和模拟的最新水平，以促进自动化流程的部署，并为工业界提供设计和分析施工流程所需的工具。在整个研究活动中，我们将评估拟议的进步对生产率和竞争力的影响，并将支持它们转化为产业。该计划的潜在好处包括改善项目交付，减少项目成本和进度，增强建筑供应链，以及培训新一代HQP，以促进将这些发现转化为建筑。

Canada's industrial base depends on infrastructure and facilities, which are planned, engineered, constructed, and operated by a segment of the construction industry called the capital projects industry. These projects will account for approximately $145 billion in investment in 2011 alone, according to Statistics Canada predictions. Improvement in their delivery will greatly impact national aggregate productivity and ultimately the economic welfare of our country. Estimates of what is possible range from 5% to 15% reduction in costs, representing billions of dollars in potential savings. Experts agree one major area of improvement involves addressing project- and company-level challenges, such as the dynamic and uncertain environment of construction, one-off projects, lack of industry-wide information technology standards that facilitate seamless integration and collaboration among project participants, and hasty and unstructured propagation of advanced technologies and equipment without appropriate frameworks, among other issues. This research program will focus on creating new knowledge and applying it to construction project delivery processes in an effort to realize a vision of integration, automation, and assimilation of advanced technologies. We will pursue process automation in support of efficient project delivery, the creation of streamlined, efficient and automated construction operations, and advancing the state of the art in modeling and simulation of construction operations in order to facilitate deployment of automated processes and provide industry with the tools required to design and analyse construction processes. Throughout the research activity we will evaluate the impacts of the proposed advancements on productivity and competitiveness, and will support their transfer into industry. Potential benefits of this program include improvements to project delivery, reductions in project costs and schedule, and enhancements of the construction supply chain, along with training a new generation of HQPs to facilitate transfer of these discoveries into construction.