Modular Construction Management Platform for Design-to-Build Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
The construction industry faces challenges with low digitalization, leading to poorly coordinated support documents and plans, resulting in costly corrective actions and delays due to a lack of comprehensive project management systems that can handle the intricacies of construction processes from initial design to final build.
Innovation Solution
A comprehensive construction project management system, AUTOBUILD 2020, which includes multiple software-based modules for data conversion, scheduling, vendor selection, cost management, quality verification, and financial accounting, operating within a system of automation to manage all aspects of a construction project from initial design to final build, utilizing technologies like AutoCAD and Revit for 3D and 4D building information modeling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional construction management methods are used, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but project coordination accuracy and reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides construction project management into distinct modular components including design management module, scheduling module, cost management module, quality management module, and procurement module. Each module handles specific aspects of project management independently while communicating through standardized data interfaces, improving reliability without requiring complete system redesign.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a centralized project management platform that acts as an intermediary between various stakeholders including architects, engineers, contractors, and clients. This platform standardizes data exchange formats and communication protocols, ensuring reliable information flow while abstracting the complexity of multi-party coordination from individual users.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive project management is implemented, then project coordination accuracy improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The project management platform provides universal data standards and interfaces that can be applied across different construction project types and scales. The system handles multiple functions including document management, scheduling, cost tracking, and quality control through integrated modules, reducing information loss without requiring separate specialized systems for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and maintains digital copies of all construction project documents, plans, and data in standardized formats. These digital replicas ensure accurate information distribution across all stakeholders and serve as single sources of truth, eliminating information loss while centralizing management controls.
3Manufacturing precision
If digitalization is increased, then project management accuracy improves, but implementation difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system establishes standardized data formats, classification systems, and communication protocols before project implementation begins. These preliminary digital frameworks are configured upfront to match specific project requirements, enabling precise project execution while avoiding the need for complex customizations during project execution that would increase implementation difficulty.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows flexible adjustment of digital model parameters and configuration settings to match different project types, scales, and requirements. By changing system parameters rather than restructuring the entire platform, the system achieves high project execution precision while maintaining ease of implementation through standardized configurations.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented, multi-modular, software-based construction project management system facilitates comprehensive construction project management from design to build completion stages. The management system provides a platform to network a series of computer clients for implementing a series of non-transitory, computer-implementable modules, including a first Design Input Conversion & Management module, a second Project Survey, Code Match & Organize module, a third Scheduling module, a fourth Vendor Selection & Bid Process module, a fifth Total Cost, Bid Evaluations & Contract Finalization module, a sixth Project Assembly & Quality Verification module, and a seventh Financial Accounting & Transactions module. Together the system-supportive modules operate to continually advance a construction project as initiated by design component data input into the system via the Design Input Conversion & Management module from an outside source provider and converted for use throughout the system as the project advances to completion.