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Construction Project Scheduling Optimization

This document presents a formulation for scheduling construction projects that aims to minimize direct construction costs. It includes constraints for scheduling, task durations, project duration, and non-negativity. An optimization problem is defined with the objective of minimizing cost, subject to these constraints. Specifically, the formulation accounts for the time required by different crews on each task based on resource allocation, with minimum and maximum possible values. The chapter concludes by stating that in the next chapter, a neural dynamics model will be adapted to solve the construction scheduling and cost optimization problem defined here.

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Construction Project Scheduling Optimization

This document presents a formulation for scheduling construction projects that aims to minimize direct construction costs. It includes constraints for scheduling, task durations, project duration, and non-negativity. An optimization problem is defined with the objective of minimizing cost, subject to these constraints. Specifically, the formulation accounts for the time required by different crews on each task based on resource allocation, with minimum and maximum possible values. The chapter concludes by stating that in the next chapter, a neural dynamics model will be adapted to solve the construction scheduling and cost optimization problem defined here.

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INTRODUCTION 77

(5.20)

subject to the scheduling constraints [Eqs. (5.2)(5.13) and (5.15) (5.18)], plus initial constraint on the
start time for the first segment of work performed by the first crew of the first task
(5.21)
project duration constraints
(5.22)
task duration constraints
(5.23)
and, non-negativity constraints
(5.24)
where Ci is the direct cost per unit quantity of work for task i; is the time required by crew k of task i to
complete a unit quantity of work based on resource allocation only; max are the minimum and

maximum possible values of max


, respectively; and D is the maximum acceptable project duration. Note
that in this formulation, Eq. (5.1) can be written for each crew k of task i as:
(5.25)

5.4
CONCLUSION
In this chapter a general formulation was presented for the scheduling of construction projects. An
optimization formulation was described for the construction project scheduling problem with the goal of
minimizing the direct construction cost. In the next chapter, we adapt the neural dynamics model of Adeli
and Park for the solution of the construction scheduling and cost optimization problem.

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