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A model for evaluating the effects of weather on construction projects
thesis
posted on 2018-05-24, 14:08 authored by Francis C. HarrisThe thesis describes a study of the effects of weather
on construction projects using a simulation model. The model
uses project data supplied in the form of a network and historical
weather data records to evaluate the effects of the weather elements—temperature, rainfall, windchill and windspeed—on the progress of construction work, using threshold limits specified for weather-sensitive activities. The overall effects of weather are measured by the losses in project
production time. Thus by simulating a project over a long
period of weather it is possible to obtain results which
reasonably reflect the effects of weather on the project. [Continues.]
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Publisher
© Francis Charles HarrisPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
1979Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en