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The mobile crane is probably the ubiquitous piece of equipment seen on a construction site. It is essential that the right mobile crane be chosen for the job. An inappropriate choice of crane can easily become the source of a serious accident. The current practice of crane choice for a particular lifting job relies on an engineer’s experience in the planning of the crane’s lifting operation. The work-cum-calculations involved tend to be a tedious manual and potentially error-prone process. This paper utilizes recent developments in Building Information Modelling (BIM) to address this problem. The paper presents a comprehensive framework to model a mobile crane’s safe lifting requirements using a 3D BIM model. Given the crane’s lifting requirements, this paper proposes a decision support system for the safe planning of the mobile crane’s operations. The outcome of this research provides engineers and construction managers who are involved in construction site planning a means to improve construction site safety.
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Abbott, E.L.S., Peng, L., Chua, D.K.H. (2018). Using Building Information Modelling to Facilitate Decision Making for a Mobile Crane Lifting Plan. In: Şahin, S. (eds) 8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017). EPPM 2017. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74123-9_9
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