A hybrid method for matching analysis of construction project characteristics with operation and maintenance requirements
Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
ISSN: 0969-9988
Article publication date: 14 July 2021
Issue publication date: 16 August 2022
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to extract the real requirements of the owner (or users) for the construction project in the operation and maintenance stage completely and accurately and carry out the construction based on the requirements, to make the project status and operation and maintenance requirements (RO&M) consistent after delivered.
Design/methodology/approach
This study creatively proposes the operation and maintenance functions deployment (OMFD) under RO&M. In addition, the OPAR (naming is made up of the initials of owners, project, analysis and result) model is constructed to fully identify the requirements of both owners and projects. In this study, three typical construction projects are taken as examples to calculate the correlation strength between project characteristics (PC) and operation and maintenance requirements through the Apriori algorithm, and order parameters are obtained from the cost chain.
Findings
This study found that there are significant differences in the correlation strength between 11 types of RO&M and PC, in which the “cost of types” (TC) correlation of residential housing and factory buildings is the largest, while the largest correlation demand of commercial buildings is “safety of types” (TS) and “system” (S). Simultaneously, through the calculation of order parameters, the most influential factors on project characteristics are obtained.
Practical implications
This study could effectively help the owner (or users) to check whether the delivered project fully satisfy their real requirements and also extract the key technical points to realize RO&M, which can guide the accurate construction of the same type of projects.
Originality/value
This research establishes OPAR model to accurately identify the requirements of the project in the operation and maintenance stage and establishes the association rules between the requirements and the construction scheme, which is helpful for the project to construct under the expected requirements.
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Acknowledgements
The research described in the paper is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71671128). The authors also appreciate the detailed suggestions and comments from the editor and the anonymous reviewers.
Declaration of Competing Interest: The authors of the paper certify that they have no conflicts of interest of any kind.
Data Availability Statement: Some or all data, models, or codes that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Citation
Ma, G., Wu, Z., Wu, M. and Shang, S. (2022), "A hybrid method for matching analysis of construction project characteristics with operation and maintenance requirements", Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, Vol. 29 No. 8, pp. 3114-3136. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-01-2021-0061
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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