Complexity

Complexity of Construction Mega Infrastructure Project


Publishing date
01 Oct 2018
Status
Published
Submission deadline
25 May 2018

Lead Editor
Guest Editors

1Curtin University, Perth, Australia

2Northwest A&F University, Shanxi, China

3Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China


Complexity of Construction Mega Infrastructure Project

Description

Mega infrastructure projects are large-scale engineering facilities providing fundamental public services for social production, economic development, and people's life, such as large-scale hydropower projects, high speed railways, expressway networks, gas pipeline projects, and long-span bridges. Many mega infrastructure projects have been or are being built around the world, such as Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, The Su-Tong Yangtz River bridge, High speed railway in China, and Darwin Impex LNG plant.

Traditional project management is based on three-dimensional life cycle approach where the project manager seeks to optimize the cost, quality, and design. Different from traditional construction project management, construction of mega infrastructure projects exhibits high complexity, such as task complexity, structural and directional complexity, technical complexity, and organization complexity. Due to their complexities, many of mega infrastructure projects suffered from over-budget, over-time, and low investment return. To address these challenges, many researchers have conducted extensive research on relevant topics in the recent, such as construction and site management, mega project supply chain and logistics management, risk management, and organization management.

The aim of this special issue intends to collect cutting-edge research of construction mega infrastructure projects from both academia and industry, with emphasis on current developments and future directions in new models and computational algorithms (chaos, genetic algorithms, cellular automata, neural networks, and evolutionary game theory). Particularly, the original research articles to improve planning, supply chain management, and organization optimization for mega infrastructure projects are very welcome.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Decision-making under uncertainty in project planning
  • Metaheuristics algorithms (genetic algorithm, particle swarm, firefly, etc.) for large scale project planning and scheduling
  • Metaheuristics algorithms for site layout optimization
  • Data driven supply chain modelling
  • Mega project supply chain analytics and prediction
  • Risk analysis methodologies for mega project
  • Uncertainty and risk management for mega project
  • Simulation based stakeholder management
  • Mega project organization modelling and analytics

Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 1249092
  • - Research Article

A New Design of Bridge-Subgrade Transition Sections Applied in Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway

Yang Changwei | Tong Xinhao | ... | Zhu Haobo
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 7382083
  • - Editorial

Complexity of Construction Mega Infrastructure Project

Changzhi Wu | Diyi Chen | Shoujun Huang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 4903572
  • - Research Article

Tackling Complexity in Green Contractor Selection for Mega Infrastructure Projects: A Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic MADM Approach with considering Group Attitudinal Character and Attributes’ Interdependency

Junling Zhang | Xiaowen Qi | Changyong Liang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 6850281
  • - Research Article

A Stepwise Risk Assessment for Explosion Events considering Probability Distribution of Explosion Load Parameters

Ki-Yeob Kang | Xiangyu Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 2609014
  • - Research Article

Restricted Boltzmann Machine-Assisted Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for Complex Problems

Lin Bao | Xiaoyan Sun | ... | Hui Shao
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 3903461
  • - Research Article

Numerical Simulation of Fatigue Performance of Diaphragm of Large-Span Bridge Orthotropic Deck

Hui Li | Bo Zhao | Han Zhu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 6498458
  • - Research Article

The Permeable Character of CSG Dams and Their Seepage Fields

Xin Zhao | Yunlong He
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 9846074
  • - Research Article

A Periodic Collaboration and Coexistence Management Model with the Oscillation Effect for Complex Mega Infrastructure Project under the Risk of Infection

Na Zhao | T. C. E. Cheng
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 5928235
  • - Research Article

Complexity Analysis of Prefabrication Contractors’ Dynamic Price Competition in Mega Projects with Different Competition Strategies

Jianbo Zhu | Qianqian Shi | ... | Xiangyu Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2018
  • - Article ID 6928605
  • - Research Article

Exploiting Spatial and Temporal for Point of Interest Recommendation

Jinpeng Chen | Wen Zhang | ... | Ming Zou
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