Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-20-2022
Publication Title
9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
Publisher
Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management
Publisher Location
Daejeon, South Korea
First page number:
1114
Last page number:
1121
Abstract
Construction laborers and crews play a critical role in achieving a safe and productive construction site. Many past research studies used top-down approaches/perspectives for studying the impact of laborers' performance on overall construction site outputs with limited flexibility in accounting for laborers' various characteristics. However, the recent reap in computational advances allowed applications of bottom-up architectures, which can potentially incorporate heterogeneous characteristics of laborers' individual behavioral and decision-making features effectively. Accordingly, agent-based modeling (ABM), as a tool to leverage a bottom-up methodological approach, has been widely adopted by recent research. Existing literature investigated the influence of changes in laborers' behaviors and interactions on either construction sites' safety performance or productivity performance individually, leaving the tradeoff between safety and productivity in this context relatively unexplored. Accordingly, this study aims to develop an agent-based framework to study the tradeoff between project safety and productivity performances resulting from changes in laborers' behaviors after attending safety trainings. Our findings via simulations indicate that proper safety trainings can improve safety performance without negatively impacting productivity performance.
Keywords
Agent-based modeling; Simulation; Safety; Productivity; Construction worker
Disciplines
Civil and Environmental Engineering
File Format
File Size
316 KB
Language
English
Rights
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Repository Citation
Khodabandelu, A.,
Park, J.,
Kheyrandish, S.
(2022).
An Agent-Based Framework for Investigating Safety-Productivity Tradeoff of Construction Laborers Considering Risk-taking Behavioral Heterogeneity.
9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
1114-1121.
Daejeon, South Korea: Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/fac_articles/931
Comments
Conference paper presented at International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management (ICCEPM 2022), held at University of Nevada, Las Vegas July 2022.