Construction Factory Concept

Important results from the project

The project aimed to investigate how improved coordination of work in infrastructure projects can lead to higher productivity, better resource utilization and reduced environmental impact, and aimed to develop and validate an overall concept that can achieve these goals. This has been achieved by developing a concept described in a system architecture that specifies how the constituent systems should work together in a system-of-systems, as well as an ontology that describes the information to be exchanged. The concepts used are based on Industry 4.0.

Expected long term effects

The most important effect of the project is a build-up of knowledge about what a concept for more efficient construction activities can look like, and this has been achieved. The results have been documented in three publications that describe the overall concept of the system, the system architecture and the ontology that specifies how information should be represented.

Approach and implementation

The project has been implemented in accordance with the plan presented in proposal. This included a use case analysis which also included value flows and actors. This was the basis for developing the architecture and ontology, which form the basis for the management system for construction work defined by the project. In order to validate that the concepts work as intended, a prototype of this management system has been developed and tested against simulated machines in different scenarios.