TY  - CONF
TI  - Interactive Visual Lean System for Resource Planning of Earthwork Operations
AU  - Dawood, Nashwan
AU  - Chavada, Rajiv
AU  - Benghi, Claudio
AU  - Sanches, Romeu
AD  - Professor, School of Science and Engineering, and Director of the Centre for Construction Innovation and Research, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK, Phone +44 1642/342494, FAX 1642/342494, n.n.dawood@tees.ac.uk
AD  - PhD Student, Centre for Construction Innovation and Research, School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK, Phone +44 1642/342494, FAX 1642/342494, H8130479@tees.ac.uk
AD  - Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, Phone +44 –191/2437368, claudio.benghi@northumbria.ac.uk
AD  - Program Manager, Mota-Engil, Romeu.Sanches@mota-engil.pt
ED  - Walsh, Kenneth
ED  - Alves, Thais
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2010/07/14
T2  - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Haifa, Israel
SP  - 652
EP  - 661
AB  - Poor resource planning and low productivities in road construction projects are among the major factors that contribute to cost escalation and projects‘ overruns. Although a number of tools and methods have been developed to enhance road construction planning and in particular earthworks planning and visualisation, current practices suggest that these tools are not practical and fragmented. The aim of this paper is to develop a practical, lean and transparent knowledge driven model to reduce the complexity of earthwork operations, improve efficiency of planning processes and reduce waste at operational phase. In this context, this research presents an interactive visual lean system that integrates different earthwork modules (including resource productivity, profile visualisation, planning and scheduling activities) to achieve efficient and productive construction plans. The system integrates atomic model configuration for productivity calculation, profile visualisation for ―Mass-haul‖ and ―Time-distance‖ profile, Gantt viewer for activity planning and management. The paper introduces the theoretical aspects of planning and scheduling in linear projects, develops system framework for the proposed model, discusses the prototype and demonstrates the prototype through a real life case study.
KW  - Visualisation tool
KW  - Integrated system
KW  - Earthwork operations
KW  - Object oriented environment
KW  - Lean Construction
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/717/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/717
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -