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Sustainable Ship Loading Planning for Prefabricated Products in the Construction Industry

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  • Wen Yi

    (School of Built Environment, College of Sciences, Massey University, 0632 Auckland, New Zealand)

  • Robyn Phipps

    (School of Built Environment, College of Sciences, Massey University, 0632 Auckland, New Zealand)

  • Hans Wang

    (Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China)

Abstract

This paper focuses on sustainable transportation of prefab products from factories to construction sites by ship. Since the transportation cost for all the prefab products of a construction site is mainly dependent on the number of cargo holds used on ships, a loading plan for prefab products that minimizes the number of holds required is highly desirable. This paper is therefore devoted to the development of an optimal loading plan that decides which prefab products are loaded into each cargo hold and how to pack these prefab products into the holds so that as few holds as possible are used. We formulate the problem as a large-scale integer optimization model whose objective function is to minimize the total number of cargo holds used and whose constraints represent the cargo hold capacity limits. We develop a heuristic to solve the problem and obtain a high-quality solution. We have tested the model and algorithm on a case study that includes 20 prefab products. We find that different cargo holds carry prefab products that have quite different densities. Moreover, the orientations of many prefab products are different from their default orientations. The results demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model and algorithm.

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  • Wen Yi & Robyn Phipps & Hans Wang, 2020. "Sustainable Ship Loading Planning for Prefabricated Products in the Construction Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(21), pages 1-12, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2020:i:21:p:8905-:d:435313
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