The design structure matrix (DSM), also called the dependency structure matrix, has become
a widely used modeling framework across many areas of research and practice. The DSM …

When shortening a project's duration, activity crashing, fast-tracking and substitution are the
three most commonly employed compression techniques. Crashing generally involves …

Construction Progress monitoring noticed recent expansions by adopting vision and laser
technologies. However, inspectors need to personally visit the job-site or wait for a time gap …

Fast-tracking the large infrastructure projects through overlapping design and construction
levitates multifaceted risks aggravating project complexity critical to efficient planning …

Construction industry often faces challenge to complete project in minimum possible time.
Overlapping design and construction activities with early information from the precedent …

Purpose Compressing the schedule by using overlapping activities is a commonly adopted
approach for accelerating projects. However, this approach might channel a variety of risks …

A well-known practice to accelerate construction projects is to overlap the design phase
activities. For a typical construction project, a number of overlapping strategies exist during …

Building information modeling has demonstrated its advantage to support design
coordination, specifically for automatic clash detection. Detecting clashes helps us identify …

Fast-tracking a project involves carrying out sequential activities in parallel, partially
overriding their original order of precedence, to reduce the overall project duration. The …

Extremely large, complex projects with numerous geographically distributed stakeholders
experience substantial risks related to the interfaces among stakeholders. This is particularly …