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SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION HANDBOOK 2 Co-operation should also extend to shared use of plant, equipment, support services, space on site, off-site production facilities or consolidation centres remote from the site. Efficiency Logistics efficiency involves achieving the maximum level of support for assembly works for the least logistical effort and the best use of finite logistical resources. This requires a clear, shared understanding of how logistics supports the build process and precise definition of roles and responsibilities for logistics activities within the project team. Simplicity Logistics arrangements on a construction project should be simple, both in concept and execution. A project team will derive simplicity from the following approach: � Robust and commonly understood project procedures � Common logistics processes amongst all organisations involved in construction works � Precise control of construction site works � Clear channels of communication on the project Agility Logistics agility provides the construction project team with the ability to respond to constantly evolving working environments and unexpected events, and adjust rapidly. Logistics agility is promoted by: � Resourceful and knowledgeable logistics personnel � The provision of appropriate plant, equipment and resources � A project team’s ability to adapt the logistics infrastructure and systems as operational circumstances change � Optimum use of resources A project team needs to strike a balance between structures, equipment, systems that meet the requirements of simplicity and the need for functional agility. 172 Logistics as an enabler of improved construction project performance The I3CON research project aims to enable the transformation towards the European <strong>Construction</strong> industry using industrial production techniques, integrated processes and intelligent systems to deliver ultra high performance buildings. An industrialised, integrated and intelligent approach to logistics will help project teams apply the 6 key logistics principles to construction site works. This will in turn help these teams meet the increasingly demanding time, cost, quality, health and safety, social and environmental demands being placed on the organisations that create the built environment <strong>Industrialised</strong>, integrated and intelligent construction project logistics will help project teams to achieve this by: � Developing new construction methodologies that reduce the time and resources required on site � Transferring activities from the site to upstream stages of the supply process, which will help avoid the inferior production conditions of a site and increase concurrent production � Allowing project teams to computer-model things such as the site production environment, building sequences, crane utilisation, site logistics infrastructures and external traffic flows. This helps optimise build programme durations, construction costs and resource use on site � Improving the visibility of planning and control information across the project participants, hence improving the quality and speed of decision making � Improving the robustness of logistics processes, making them less variable and more accurate � Creating novel ways of distribution from A to B, both on site and external to the site � Streamlining the supply of materials to site, reducing costs, inventory, lead time and environmental and social impact
HANDBOOK 2 SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION � Increasing the reliability of material flow to points of assembly on site The following images from BSRIA study projects show construction sites where the logistics strategy employed by the project teams has helped create safer and more productive work environments. These production-focused work areas are a result of a more industrialised, integrated and intelligent approach to logistics than that adopted by the projects teams whose work environments were illustrated earlier in this paper. The measurement of flowrates in ceiling pipework. The whole floor of this major office development is free from obstruction, which means that these workers can easily move between different openings in the ceiling. A 10 tonne, prefabricated stone cladding panel being lifted into position by a mobile crane. 640 of these panels were used and the installation time was 32 times quicker than hand-set stone panels. An external view of a manufacturing plant being constructed. The logistics infrastructure has been well planned, storage is well organised and good provision has been made for the movement of vehicles and site personnel. An internal street area of an office campus development. Work areas are clearly segregated from distribution routes and storage areas. Good access is provided for plant and equipment and the correct type of mobile working platforms are being used for high level works. 173
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