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Cost overruns, time delays and changing scopes are prohibiting infrastructure projects from realising their intended value.

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The construction challenge

As a global market leader and vital component of the UK economy, solving challenges in the construction sector is critical.

Large-scale infrastructure projects are critical to any country’s economic growth. As complexity grows in these projects, ensuring that they are delivered on time and on budget are increasingly important. Key challenges faced by the industry include slow adoption of emerging technologies, sustainability, health and safety compliance and regulation, supply chain management and the growing skills shortage.

There’s an increasing need to introduce greater efficiencies, stronger governance and digital techniques, requiring a new generation of employees capable of using innovative tools that will drive progress in the sector and realise forecasted benefits. Our capabilities help teams understand their infrastructure projects in greater detail before building, plan more robust schedules and mitigate risk.

How we work in construction

Our use cases in Construction

Construction requires rigorous planning and a strong understanding of variability. Discover our key use cases in the sector. Want to discuss your challenge? Get in touch.

Build Schedule Modelling

Develop parameterised models of complex build schedules and use uncertainty quantification to better understand the impact of variability in real world performance, identifying critical tasks affecting variability. Plan more robust build schedules, mitigate risk and reduce cost of delays.

Layout Optimisation and Site Simulation

Combine advanced optimisation methods with transient site simulations to identify optimal construction site configurations. Incorporate varying requirements over all construction phases when planning the site layout, improving resource allocation and utilisation, improving site efficiency and mitigating risk.

Pathway Planning for Cranes

Optimise the movement of novel networks of automated overhead cranes using our bespoke path planning tool. Gain confidence in the system’s viability and insights to help expedite constructions schedules and significantly reduce costs.

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Construction problems we have solved.

Explore the challenges we’ve solved within the construction industry from layout optimisations to pathway planning for advanced crane systems.

Mass haul movement planning for large-scale infrastructure projects
Construction
Planning

Mass haul movement planning aims to minimise resource usage by redistributing earthworks materials in an efficient manner. Existing processes are manual and take several weeks to complete, costing time and money.

We created a tool that processes construction schedules to build a mathematical model, producing a series of optimised outputs to support better decision making and planning.

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Large-scale infrastructure planning for optimised construction
Construction
Logistics & Scheduling

Large-scale infrastructure projects are hugely complex and contain lots of interdependencies that can have a significant impact on decision making.

Understanding the impact of this is crucial and can be achieved through novel simulation techniques such as multi-agent pathfinding.

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Why CFMS in construction

What CFMS provides that an in-house construction team cannot.

We work with your team to enable them to make better decisions and more robust plans, helping to keep projects on time and in budget.

Extension of your team

Our expansive experience and expertise in modelling and simulation means we are an extension of your team, able to bring deep technical knowledge to complement your existing skill sets.

Acceleration

Understanding how a construction project will play out over its course is critical. Using our onsite high performance compute means you can model and simulate at scale, understanding the impact of decisions and uncertainty.

Complexity

Complexity is significant within construction projects. We can help you understand which factors are important and which are not, mitigating risk and bringing more certainty where uncertainty lies.

Sector thinking

Insights from the construction team.

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Common questions about Construction simulation

Modelling and simulation help to predict the behaviour of a system through mathematical modelling. Through techniques such as uncertainty quantification and build schedule modelling, you can understand system behaviour and gain a deeper insight into the impact of different decisions on intended performance. This enables better planning and can also be used throughout a project to ensure decisions are made with the best information available.

Most providers work within the constraints of licensed software packages. CFMS develops bespoke simulation tools in-house, built specifically for the problem at hand so results are not limited by the approximations embedded in off-the-shelf tools or by what a software vendor has already built.

Yes. By understanding how all elements of a system will interact together, decisions can be made holistically rather than individually. This provides a better view of the system and can lead to greater efficiency.

Yes. We operate a secure, on-site data centre allowing sensitive project data to be handled within the security and IP protection constraints customers require. We are experienced working under NDA and project-specific data handling agreements. We also can set up collaborative environments where all project partners can access a shared environment but with appropriate access rights.

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Tell us about your construction challenge.

Large-scale infrastructure projects require rigorous planning and a strong understanding of expected behaviour to be successful. We're here to help reduce uncertainty and mitigate risk.

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