Location-Based Management for Construction

Planning, scheduling and control

Russell Kenley, Olli Seppänen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9780415370509
• eBook ISBN: 9781134199044
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Industrial Management
• Index: Economics

With extensive case studies for illustration, this is a practitioner's guide to an entirely new production system for construction management using flowline scheduling.

Covering the entire process of presenting a comprehensive management system – from design, through measurement, scheduling, and visualization and control – its emphasis is on reducing cost and increasing quality.

Drawing its components together into a management system, the authors not only include theory and explanations of how and why it works, but also examine and present a suite of methods for successful project implementation.

Perfect as a how-to guide for researchers and advanced construction students to discover the simple application of the new techniques, and invaluable for acquiring the practical tools for planning and controlling projects.

Section Five

Case studies

Chapter 15
Case study 1: Opus Business Park

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

Opus Business Park is a 14,500 m² office building in eastern Helsinki. The general contractor of the project, NCC Construction Ltd, is one of the largest Nordic construction firms. The Finnish subsidiary of the company uses LBMS in all its projects. Before this case study, the emphasis had been on implementing the planning components of the system. Opus was its first case study for the location-based controlling system and also incorporated location-based contracts. The developer of the project was part of NCC Construction, and thus an internal client. This meant that time to market was important—earlier completion would provide earlier rental income. A normal contract was signed between the construction and the property development organisations. It was a target price contract with a guaranteed maximum price.

Figure 15.1 Opus 3: Opus Business Park—composite image

Opus 3, commenced in 2004, is the second part of a development of three office buildings. The first part, Opus 2 had already been completed in 2002. The Opus 3 project comprised two sections, arranged in a ‘V’ and which could be built independently of each other (a section is shown in Figure 15.1), and a parking hall below the main building. The structure was precast concrete. Identical office sections were connected by a diagonal corridor area with a glass façade (Figure 15.2). This diagonal area was built together with the second section. Both office sections had six floors. There were mechanical rooms on the roof of each section. Because the offices had not yet been rented at the start of the project and because companies have varying space requirements, the fit-out design incorporated flexible walls which could be moved within certain tolerances. The ground floor had special spaces, such as an auditorium, a dentists clinic with special requirements, and a lobby. Other floors were more or less repetitive construction although floor area reduced on higher floors and the top floor had a sauna section (almost a mandatory requirement in Finland).

Figure 15.2 Opus 3: Opus Business Park—joining corridor façade

AVAILABLE STARTING DATA

NCC Construction Ltd was the first company to implement location-based management systems widely in its organisation. For two years before this project it had been familiar with the required starting data. In this project, accurate location-based quantities, based on the project’s location breakdown structure, were available very early on to support the planning process. Quantities were available for both the construction and MEP trades. However, MEP quantities were rough estimates based on project characteristics and s...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Figures
• Tables
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Permissions
• Section One Introduction to planning and control
• Section Two Location-based planning
• Section Three Location-based control
• Section Four The location-based management system
• Section Five Case studies