Last thirty years of Construction Management Research

Abstract

One way to approach construction scheduling optimization problem is to focus on the individual aspects of planning, which can
be broadly classified as time scheduling, crew and resource management, and cost control. During the last four decades,
construction planning has seen a lot of research, but to date, no paper had attempted to summarize the literature available under
important heads. This paper addresses each of aspects separately, and presents the findings of an in-depth literature of the
various planning techniques. For techniques dealing with time scheduling, the authors have adopted a rough chronological
documentation. For crew and resource management, classification has been done on the basis of the different steps involved in
the resource planning process. For cost control, techniques dealing with both estimation of costs and the subsequent optimization
of costs have been dealt with separately.