TY - JOUR
T1 - A system boundary-based critical review on crane selection in building construction
AU - Wang, Roy Dong
AU - Zayed, Tarek
AU - Pan, Wei
AU - Zheng, Saina
AU - Tariq, Salman
N1 - Funding Information:
This is to acknowledge that the project leading to the publication of this paper was fully funded by the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre for Steel Construction (CNERC), Hong Kong Branch, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (BBV3) . The authors would like to thank the four anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - This study presented a system boundary-based review to systematically investigate the existing research on crane selection in building construction. The system boundary model comprised 9 boundary elements, namely year, location, research source, project height, project typology, crane type, selection constraint, selection criteria, and selection method. Three detailed analyses were carried out with reference to the boundary elements. Firstly, distribution analysis reflected an increasing research trend in crane selection worldwide. Secondly, regression analysis, considering 25 real cases, indicated that tower crane is better suited for high-rise building construction. Thirdly, systematic analysis identified a total of 19 constraints, 71 criteria, and 8 methods adopted for crane selection. Subsequently, the relationships between crane selection constraints and criteria were revealed. Furthermore, this study disclosed the selection differences between tower and mobile cranes, and the best practices in crane type and model selection. The main future research opportunities include i) using advanced AI technologies for crane type selection; ii) developing simulation models for tower crane model selection; iii) establishing a hybrid method for crane selection; and iv) extending the selection considerations to a larger spatio-temporal and functional scope.
AB - This study presented a system boundary-based review to systematically investigate the existing research on crane selection in building construction. The system boundary model comprised 9 boundary elements, namely year, location, research source, project height, project typology, crane type, selection constraint, selection criteria, and selection method. Three detailed analyses were carried out with reference to the boundary elements. Firstly, distribution analysis reflected an increasing research trend in crane selection worldwide. Secondly, regression analysis, considering 25 real cases, indicated that tower crane is better suited for high-rise building construction. Thirdly, systematic analysis identified a total of 19 constraints, 71 criteria, and 8 methods adopted for crane selection. Subsequently, the relationships between crane selection constraints and criteria were revealed. Furthermore, this study disclosed the selection differences between tower and mobile cranes, and the best practices in crane type and model selection. The main future research opportunities include i) using advanced AI technologies for crane type selection; ii) developing simulation models for tower crane model selection; iii) establishing a hybrid method for crane selection; and iv) extending the selection considerations to a larger spatio-temporal and functional scope.
KW - Building construction
KW - Crane selection
KW - Review
KW - System boundary
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U2 - 10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103520
DO - 10.1016/j.autcon.2020.103520
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85097892893
SN - 0926-5805
VL - 123
JO - Automation in Construction
JF - Automation in Construction
M1 - 103520
ER -