Optimal Technological Approaches for Enhancing Construction Site Layout Planning Efficiency

The layout design of a construction site includes the careful planning and placement of all necessary facilities to support various construction operations and tasks before building begins. The purpose is to figure out the optimal location for all essential facilities and enhance the resources and processes for the construction project. This strategy frequently results in imprecise planning of the site layout, dependent on experience, basic 2D drawings, and intuition. The unique environment and spatial limitations of each construction site can result in inaccurate site layout plans. Therefore, this study to identify technology strategies that can be adopted to improve construction site layout planning. The research used a quantitative methodology to gather data from designated respondents, specifically the G7 building contractors registered with CIDB in Johor. Sixty-five (65) respondents completed the questionnaires. The respondents comprised 21 quantity surveyors, 17 site supervisors or engineers, 11 other supervisory construction professionals, 7 project managers, 5 engineers (including electrical, mechanical, civil, and structural), and 4 safety officers. The data analysis conducted using SPSS employed descriptive methods, including frequency and mean analyses. Various factors using to identified which technology can enhancing construction site layout planning efficiency including visualization capabilities, time savings, accuracy and reliability, collaboration and communication and user-friendliness. The results demonstrated that building information modelling (BIM) was favoured as the technology most likely to improve planning for building site layouts, achieving a mean score of 3.94, while virtual reality (VR) was seen to have the least potential, with a mean score of 3.58. In conclusion, this study highlights the consequences of insufficient construction site layout planning to alert site layout planners to be more mindful of inadequate and simple layout planning. This study advocates for the gradual integration of this technology into existing methodologies for planning construction site layouts to enhance their efficacy. This is due to its significant ability to generate and provide more precise and dependable blueprints for construction site layouts.