Cost reduction in construction site planning

Abstract

Construction site planning involves determining the composition of temporary objects on the site and has a significant impact on the safety and efficiency of construction works. Rational planning of the construction site allows: to reduce production costs; minimize the movement time of labor, materials, and equipment on the site; improve construction productivity; improve safety and quality of work performance. Optimizing the planning of the construction site can be achieved by: reducing the necessary areas of resources placed on the construction site and minimizing the path, or eliminating unnecessary movement of resources using proper methods of material processing. However, optimal planning of the construction site, taking into account the integrated management of health, safety, and environmental issues, especially with the help of intelligent technologies, has received little attention in construction practice.

Scientific research aimed at reducing construction costs by optimizing decisions made during the design of construction master plans exists in two main directions: minimization of the required areas of construction site elements by reducing the use of certain resources and rational planning of the construction site (operational efficiency) by reducing the distances of moving resources. Variant design when planning a construction site requires the creation of different planning models and increases design costs.CSLP (construction site layout planning) technology is used abroad to solve construction site planning problems.

In general, CSLP models provide zones for the placement of construction management elements on the site under the conditions of minimizing the total construction costs, but in practice, the location of these elements may also depend on other factors that are given in the article. The further development of such technologies should be based on the possibility of not only taking into account the long-distance movement of resources and the number of workers involved in production but also methods of reducing the necessary areas of sanitary and administrative premises.