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IGLC 8 · Brighton, UK · 2000

Integrating Design Planning, Scheduling, and Control With DePlan

  1. Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU, FAX +1509 223981, j.w.hammond@lboro.ac.uk
  2. Ph.D. Candidate, Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt. Program, Civil and Envir. Engrg. Dept., 215 McLaughlin Hall #1712, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, choohj@ce.berkeley.edu
  3. Professor of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU, FAX +1509 223981, s.a.austin@lboro.ac.uk
  4. Associate Professor, Civil and Envir. Engrg. Department, 215-A McLaughlin Hall, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1712, 510/643-8678, FAX 510/643-8919, tommelein@ce.berkeley.edu
  5. Director of Research, Lean Construction Institute, and Lecturer, Constr. Engrg. and Mgmt. Program, Civil and Envir. Engrg. Dept., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, ballard@ce.berkeley.edu

Abstract

The planning and management of building design has historically focused upon traditional methods of planning such as Critical Path Method (CPM). Little effort is made to understand the complexities of the design process; instead design managers focus on allocating work packages where the planned output is a set of deliverables. All too often there is no attempt to understand and control the flow of information that gives rise to these deliverables. This paper proposes the combined use of the Analytical Design Planning Technique (ADePT) and Last Planner methodology as a tool called DePlan to improve the planning, scheduling and control of design. ADePT is applied during the early planning stages to provide the design team with an improved design programme that takes into account the complex relationships that exist between designers, and the information flows that flows between them. Then the Last Planner methodology is employed, through a program called ProPlan, to schedule and control the design environment. DePlan has been implemented as a PC-based computer program with web interface.

Keywords

  • Design Management
  • ADePT
  • ProPlan
  • Last Planner
  • Production Management
  • Planning
  • Scheduling
  • Control
  • Dependency Structure Matrix.

Cite this paper

APA 7th edition

Hammond, J., Choo, H. J., Austin, S., Tommelein, I. D., & Ballard, G. (2000). Integrating Design Planning, Scheduling, and Control With DePlan. In 8th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction.

Shortened reference for IGLC papers

Hammond, J., Choo, H. J., Austin, S., Tommelein, I. D., & Ballard, G. (2000). Integrating Design Planning, Scheduling, and Control With DePlan. IGLC8.