ABSTRACT
The production process from design to manufacturing contains uncertainties due to many factors such as: multi-disciplinary design, progress on construction site, and requirement of costly purpose-built moulds. The construction Innovation research is aimed to improve the efficiency of the process by addressing the production planning because it has a significant impact to the success of the business. An innovative planning system and its prototype called ‘Artificial Intelligence Planner’ is being developed. The construction of a building can be regarded as an assembly of hundreds of different designs and delivery dates of ‘bespoke’ precast concrete components. ‘Bespoke precast production’ has a major distinction from ordinary ‘mass production’ that every time the process is start from new product design. Sample data-sets of 50 different precast products were collected from a leading bespoke precast manufacturer in the UK and used for designing architecture and evaluating performance of the models.
