Merging PDM, RSM and LSM - Scheduling Approaches into a Single Construction Project Scheduling System

Authors

  • Pierre Bonnal CERN Switzerland Switzerland
  • Mathieu Baudin Product design and Innovation Laboratory, ENSAM ParisTech, Paris, France
  • Jurgen De Jonghe CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Keywords:

construction project scheduling, linear scheduling method (LSM), repetitive scheduling method (RSM), unified project scheduling system (UPSS)

Abstract

There are projects for which the classical Critical Path method (CPM) or Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) scheduling techniques are not the most suitable. Several alternative approaches have been developed over the last two decades to cope with the scheduling requirements of construction projects that are made of either repetitive activities or activities that have a linear development. Construction projects, and more specifically large-scale construction endeavors, are often composed of a mixture of repetitive activities, linear activities and more conventional project activities. The approach that is proposed in the present article enables construction practitioners to consider these three types of activities in a unique scheduling model — called Unified Project Scheduling System (UPSS) — that has a level of complexity similar to the one of CPM or PDM. UPSS has been designed so that most of the resource-constrained project scheduling algorithms can be used.

Author Biographies

  • Pierre Bonnal, CERN Switzerland Switzerland

    Senior Project Engineer with the Office of the Director of Accelerators and Technology, involved in providing project management support and advices to projects (as from Sept. 2010) > Technical Coordinator for the PS Booster Upgrade Project > CERN's Scientist-in-charge for the PURESAFE Initial Training Network > Member of the CERN A&T Sector's Maintenance Management Initiative > Member of the CERN's Corporate Risk Management Initiative. Senior lecturer Université de Lausanne / HEC School of Business February 2007 – Present (6 years 4 months) Instructor of the "R&D Management" course (M.Sc. in Management program) Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse Ph.D., Industrial Systems Management 1997 – 2001 Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III) D.E.A., Industrial Project Management 1989 – 1990 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières M.Sc., Project Management 1989 – 1990 Ecole centrale de Marseille M.Sc., Industrial Eng. 1988 – 1990 Ecole nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes M.Sc., Mechanical Eng. 1983 – 1988 Interests: Project management and governance, Front-end project management (feasibility analyses), Project risk management, Quality management, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Innovation and R&D management and governance, Corporate strategy and governance.

  • Mathieu Baudin, Product design and Innovation Laboratory, ENSAM ParisTech, Paris, France

    Graduated in 2011 from the French Engineering school Centrale Marseille. This degree is equivalent to a masters degree in engineering. In 2011 as well, I graduated from the University Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III in a masters degree in Theoretical Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry for which I performed a six month master thesis at the University of Nottingham in translational medical imaging, with Prof. Thomas Meersmann.

    I am now performing my PhD at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, in industrial engineering. My grad school is at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers ParisTech (ENSAM ParisTech, Paris, France). I am working on intervention models suited to collaborative intervention planning and scheduling, and their optimization based on radiation protection data.

  • Jurgen De Jonghe, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

    Holds a MSc in computer science and applied mathematics from the University of Leuven, Belgium. At CERN, he was in charge of all business processes and administrative workflow from 1992. Since 1999, he has been in charge of providing project management tools for internal use. These tools have been used in a variety of projects ranging from the ATLAS detector (the largest particle physics collaboration ever), the LHC accelerator, EGEE (the European grid project) and now for planning all strategic activities at CERN. Jurgen has over 15 years of experience leading a software development team for medium to large software development projects.

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