Modeling Drywall Construction Process Using a Spatiotemporal Chronographical Scheduling

The Gantt/Predictive Diagram is the most widely used model for planning building construction projects. This diagram focuses on defining activities and constraints and then allocating resources to those activities. Space constraints are generally neglected. This makes it difficult to represent the sequence of work, traffic, and supply flow between different sites. Spatiotemporal models are considered more appropriate as scheduling models. These models aim to linearize activities, resources, and spaces at the same time. The objective of this research is to model drywall construction process using a spatiotemporal Chronographical scheduling. Partition drywall assembly involves many components. Each of these components has a wide variety of types, sizes, or other technical specifications. Space planning models the sequences of operations on the construction site by subdividing the construction site into areas to define work zones. Although this type of division is well suited for most construction stages of implementation, such as creation of spaces, systems, finishing, closing of spaces, and outdoor facilities; it is less suited, for the envelope and the division of spaces stages of implementation. Spatial divisions of the site must therefore be adapted to this reality. The novelty of this publication is that it proposes a new way of dividing spaces, and it demonstrates this through a practical example.