Computer-Implemented Progress Modeling for Multi-Event Construction Schedules
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Solution Overview
Problem
Contractors face difficulties in adhering to multi-event construction schedules due to delays from weather, material availability, and other unforeseen factors, leading to suspect or obscured schedule updates that lack insight into actual project progress, necessitating improved scheduling tools for timely and accurate progress modeling.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented progress modeling method that loads digitized representations of multi-event processes, generates visual representations of progress, modifies attributes of events, computes progress profiles, and respreads events to reflect revised schedules, providing interactive and real-time replanning capabilities to avoid delays and cost overruns.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If contractors manually update and revise schedules based on delays and unforeseen factors, then flexibility to adapt to changing conditions is improved, but schedule accuracy and reliability deteriorate due to suspect or obscured updates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback mechanisms where schedule updates are automatically communicated to all stakeholders through electronic notifications and portal updates. This ensures that schedule changes are transparent, accurate, and reliably transmitted without manual intervention errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical schedule updating processes with automated computer-based systems. The system automatically calculates revised schedules, generates notifications, and updates progress profiles without requiring manual data entry or communication, thereby eliminating errors associated with manual updates.
2Reliability
If detailed scheduling of construction activities is implemented, then project control and oversight are improved, but complexity of schedule management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The scheduling system divides the overall construction project into discrete, manageable events and activities. Each event can be independently tracked, updated, and managed through the electronic portal, reducing the complexity of managing detailed schedules while maintaining comprehensive project control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides a universal electronic portal that handles multiple scheduling functions including progress tracking, update notification, profile generation, and stakeholder communication in a single integrated platform, reducing the complexity of managing multiple separate scheduling tools.
3Productivity
If contractors prepare revised schedules to minimize delays and cost overruns, then project productivity is improved, but time and resources required for schedule updates increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary automated calculations and schedule revisions as soon as delays are identified, generating updated progress profiles and notifications without requiring extensive manual analysis. This reduces the time required for schedule updates while maintaining productivity improvements.
Solution Approach 2:
The scheduling system automatically generates revised schedules, calculates impact on project timelines, and distributes updates to stakeholders without requiring significant contractor or administrator time for manual preparation, thereby reducing update time while maintaining productivity benefits.
4Loss of information
If visual representations of progress profiles are generated, then information clarity and stakeholder understanding are improved, but computational processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential progress information and presents it through simplified visual representations in electronic notifications and portal displays. This reduces computational requirements by focusing on key data points while maintaining information clarity for stakeholders.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses color-coded visual indicators in progress profiles and notifications to convey schedule status and changes at a glance. This graphical approach improves information clarity and understanding while requiring minimal computational processing compared to detailed numerical analysis.
Data Source
AI summary
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to systems, devices and/or processes for computer implemented modeling of a multi-event process. In an embodiment, the method may include loading into one or more computer memory devices, a digitized representation of events of the multi-event process, in which a first one or more of the plurality of events is linked to a previous first one or more or of a second one or more of the plurality of events and generating a first visual representation of one or more visual indicators to represent progress of the first one or more of the plurality of events. The method may additionally include computing a respread progress profile of the first one or more events based, at least in part, on one or more modified attributes of the first one or more or of the second one or more of the plurality of events.