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Abstract
Several methodologies for production planning and control have been introduced over the years in the construction industry. However, in this industry, it is not uncommon that projects are delayed and go over the assigned budget. In this study, we performed a Systematic Literature Review to investigate the strengths and shortcomings of methodologies used for production planning and control on-site. To consider all of the main aspects of the execution process, we studied activity, location and object-based methodologies. As main findings it emerged that the analysed methodologies are difficult to apply in practice and that they support in a limited way the assessment in real-time of the construction progress and project status, the early identification of problems as well as recovering actions. To support practitioners in deciding about one or another methodology, or to build on a hybrid one, the paper proposes a classification of strengths and shortcomings from a project planning, scheduling and monitoring perspective.
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Patrick Dallasega
Patrick Dallasega is an Assistant Professor of Factory Planning and Project Management at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy). He studied at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy) and got his PhD at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). He was Visiting Scholar at the Excellence Centre in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Chiang Mai University (Thailand) and at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts (USA). His main research interests are in, supply chain management, Industry 4.0, lean construction, lean manufacturing and production planning and control in MTO and ETO enterprises.
Elisa Marengo
Elisa Marengo is assistant professor (with a fixed term contract) at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. After obtaining her PhD from the University of Torino, she moved at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna. She joined the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in 2013 and since 2016 she is actively working on processes in construction, aiming at providing supporting tools to improve the efficiency in construction process management. She has authored more than 30 refereed publications and recently a paper on process modelling in construction was awarded of the best paper prize in a top computer science international conference on Business Processes (BPM 2018).
Andrea Revolti
Andrea Revolti works as Freelance Engineer, Project Manager/Consultant for European Projects and Research Assistant at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He graduated in Architecture and Building Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of Trento. He is qualified as professional Engineer (State Examination – Civil Section A) and member of the Engineers Body of Trento n. 3926. From 2014–2016 he co-operated with Professor Maurizio Costantini (UNITN) in research areas related to building site management and LCA (Life Cycle Assessment). Since 2017, he collaborates actively within the COCKPIT research project (FESR) as BIM and Building site management expert. He is certified as expert user of REVIT and ARCHICAD software. His main research interests are in new horizons for BIM, Industry 4.0, lean construction, and operational/safety management of construction projects.