Applications in Construction Management and Planning

The following construction management probability examples are solved efficiently in this chapter, on the cell-object-oriented spreadsheet platform. Readers are encouraged to browse the classical solution procedures in the cited sources (from which the questions are excerpted). Students and researchers are also encouraged to obtain the solutions by other means, e.g., MATLAB, MathCad, R, Python, proprietary MCS software, etc. EXAMPLE 8.1 Normally distributed durations of construction activities EXAMPLE 8.2 Beta-distributed durations of construction activities EXAMPLE 8.3 Probability of on-the-job accidents and cost in a construction project EXAMPLE 8.4 Assessing different quality control test schemes on purchased bolts EXAMPLE 8.5 Minimizing construction cost of a causeway over swampy areas EXAMPLE 8.6 RBD of project time for a target probability of completion EXAMPLE 8.7 Trouble-free operational time of 10 road graders rented by a contractor EXAMPLE 8.8 Lead time for ordering with no processing time. EXAMPLE 8.9 MCS of delivery time involving discrete random variables EXAMPLE 8.10 Activity network: comparison of MCS and system reliability EXAMPLE 8.11 Comparing MCS and system reliability analysis for a road construction project EXAMPLE 8.12 RBD of project duration for a target reliability and system reliability bounds