Automated construction resource location tracking to support the analysis of lean principles

Challenging Lean Construction Thinking: What Do We Think and What Do We Know? - 18th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction, IGLC 18

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 643-653

  Cheng, Tao ^a   Yang, Jun ^b   Teizer, Jochen ^a   Vela, Patricio A ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision Making; Productivity; Safety; Tracking; Ultra Wideband; Workforce

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS; CONSTRUCTION RESOURCE; CONSTRUCTION SITES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; LEAN CONSTRUCTION; LEAN PRINCIPLES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PROJECT DECISION; REAL-TIME LOCATION; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TRAJECTORY INFORMATION; WORK SITES; WORK TASK; WORKFORCE;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PRODUCTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TRACKING (POSITION); ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84866071498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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