Preliminary Design Proposals for Dovetail Wood Board Elements in Multi-Story Building Construction

Towards Production Control on Multi-Story Building Construction Sites

This paper reports a construction site intervention that is part of a research program devoted to the topic of production control in multi-story building construction. An early work by the authors introduced a preplanning method using the line of balance technique. This present work aggregates some tools previously used such as the Last Planner and Lookahead planning in order to develop a produ...

Scoring Design-Build Proposals for Military Construction Projects

Story Understanding Through Multi-Representation Model Construction

We present an implemented model of story understanding and apply it to the understanding of a children’s story. We argue that understanding a story consists of building multirepresentation models of the story and that story models are efficiently constructed using a satisfiability solver. We present a computer program that contains multiple representations of commonsense knowledge, takes a narr...

Building Blocks for Multi-Robot Construction

One notable capability of social insect colonies that has traditionally inspired distributed robot systems is their construction activity. In this paper, I describe a system of simple, identical, autonomous robots able to build two-dimensional structures of arbitrary design by rearranging blocks of building material into desired shapes. Structure design is specified compactly as a high-level ge...

Practical Recommendations for the Preliminary Design Analysis of Multi- Story Moment-Resisting Frames

Approximate methods of analysis are essential tools at the preliminary design phase of any building project. For multi-story multi-bay lateral-force-swayed frames, the available classical approximate methods are the Portal and the Cantilever techniques. It is known that the Portal method gives more accurate results for low to medium rise frames. This investigation showed that it is possible to ...