CONTROL FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEMS IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SITES IN IRAQ

Abstract

The layout of temporary facilities in a construction site deals with the selection of the most efficient layout in order to operate efficiently and cost-effectively. The layout design seeks the best arrangement of facilities within the available area. In the design process of the layout, many objectives must be considered to effectively utilize people resources, equipment, space, and energy. The research aims to design practical scheme to locate the temporary facilities in construction sites with less travel distance between them, so it has been to follow the scientific methodology of the research included two phases, the first was the study of theoretical research and previous studies relating to research, and represented the second phase of the study process which has been used in two ways, namely: a survey field for a number of experienced in construction sites management and analysis of answers and compare them with the theoretical study while the second way to use the results of phases theory and practice in the design of a mathematical model to accomplish the aim of the research to reach optimum planning for the sites of temporary facilities in construction sites and using the software Matlab to find in the minimum transition between each pair of these facilities and minimum distance between all of the facilities The results showed through a survey of experts need to design places of temporary facilities right before starting the implementation of the project...