Planning and monitoring communication between construction project participants

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https://doi.org/10.24425/ace.2021.137179

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In the literature, researchers present construction projects as temporary self-organising coalition networks, composed of specialist entities that work towards set goals. The number of parties involved in the various processes during construction causes communications relations to be exceedingly complex and to change. The environment of a construction project is dynamic and complex, and self-organising communication networks are sensitive to institutional and social change. It becomes necessary to identify situations rooted in both insufficient communication during the carrying out of a project and its excess, which generates unnecessary cost. Effective control of information flow within self-organising communication networks through its planning and monitoring by project management can contribute to achieving project goals. This paper presents a proposal of an optimisation approach (in terms of minimising communication costs) to information flow planning that accounts for various constraints, on the example of a real-world case of building a housing complex in Poland.

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2021-06-30

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Kania, Ewelina, et al. “Planning and Monitoring Communication Between Construction Project Participants”. Archives of Civil Engineering, vol. 67, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 455-73, doi:10.24425/ace.2021.137179.

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