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Baker, M; Ali, M; Hassett, E; Jahan Tumpa, R (2025) Tapping the untapped resource to address construction skills shortages: Perceptions of Australian women career changers and construction women. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Chang, W C; Esmaeili, B; Hasanzadeh, S (2025) Impacts of physical and informational failures on worker-autonomy trust in future construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Charbel, G; Assaad, R H; Tejada, T R; Karaa, F (2025) Modeling the interdependencies between the risk factors contributing to preconstruction delays in construction projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Chen, S; Zeng, N; Li, F; Yue, H; Wang, Q; Li, Q (2025) Proactive safety risk control system for deep foundation pit construction: Situational tailoring of integrated cybernetics and dual-system theory. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Dou, Y; Zhong, L; Luo, L (2025) Supply chain resilience of prefabricated construction: Perspectives of stakeholder capabilities and vulnerabilities. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

He, C; Liu, M; Hsiang, S M; Pierce, N; Megahed, S; Godfrey, A (2025) An ontological knowledge-driven smart contract framework for implicit bridge preservation decision making. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Jiang, Z; Han, Y; Cheng, Y; Wang, Z; Meng, H (2025) An improved yolov8-dyhead-wiseiou model for positioning and counting detection of grouting sleeves in a prefabricated wall. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Lin, S; Cheung, S O (2025) What organizational justice brings to project dispute negotiation. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Liu, Z; Li, X; Gao, Z; Zhang, Y; Teng, Y; Wu, C (2025) A hybrid and intuitive work packaging approach with multiple task relations, general work package precedence, and BIM in modular construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: building information modeling; modular construction; work package
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/JCEMD4.COENG-15856
  • Abstract:
    A work package is an element of the work breakdown structure, which includes tasks, deliverables, and all necessary details for execution by a designated team. In modular construction (MC) production, effective work packaging is crucial for ensuring efficient task execution, reducing project costs, and maintaining schedules. However, existing research on work packaging primarily focuses on tasks with single precedence relationships, overlooking the complex task dependencies that can arise in MC production, such as parallel and cyclic tasks. To address this issue, this study proposes a hybrid and intuitive work packaging (HIWP) approach that allows concurrent execution of work packages and visualizes work packaging results. First, at the task level, we expand task type identification by incorporating parallel and cyclic tasks. Second, at the work package level, a heuristic algorithm was developed to optimize work package sizing under the general precedence relation (GPR), which allows work packages to overlap during execution. Finally, a web-based platform was developed by integrating building information modeling (BIM) technology. The contribution of this study contains a GPR-based work package sizing method, which allows the simultaneous execution of work packages, significantly improving the efficiency and accuracy of work packaging in MC projects. Additionally, an integrated BIM-based platform is developed to facilitate the visualization, querying, and communication of work package results. Experimental results demonstrate an 8.1% cost reduction compared with existing methods. Additionally, HIWP shows a 40% potential cost reduction in simulation experiments and provides up to five times faster response when adjusting to shortened project durations.

Mai, T P A; Doan, D T; Ghaffarianhoseini, A (2025) Utilizing multiskilled resources in addressing labor shortage issues in off-site construction: Benefits, challenges, and best practices. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Onubi, H O; Carpio, M (2025) Voluntary workplace proenvironmental behavior on construction project sites: Antecedent roles of green human resource management practices, environmental awareness, and job control. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Sharma, N; Laishram, B (2025) Decoding the emergent patterns of cost of quality through the lens of sociotechnical systems: A bibliometric analysis. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Shrestha, R; Ko, T; Lee, J (2025) Quantifying project uncertainties: Leveraging historical bid and change order data for automated detection of cost and schedule impacts in new projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Sun, R; Yan, Q; Zhang, C; Qiao, M; Ren, J (2025) Comprehensive evaluation of grouting effectiveness combining qualitative on-site tests and improved fuzzy integration with entropy weight method: Case study of a mountain tunnel. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Tao, Y; Hu, H; Xu, F; Zhang, Z (2025) Ergonomic risk mitigation through workforce planning for construction projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Wang, H; Chen, X; Wang, J; Guan, W; Wei, S (2025) Multiobjective trade-off optimization of time, cost, quality, and carbon emission in the building construction stage. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Yan, H; Liu, C; Yang, X; Feng, K (2025) Real-time digital twin-driven 3D near-miss detection system at construction sites. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).

Yu, M; Ruan, W; Zhou, Y; Zhao, Y (2025) Flow shop scheduling for prefabricated components production considering parallel machines and buffer constraints. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4).