Design Interface Management of Airport Projects
AbstractInterface management is the brainchild of project management, which gives a “bird’s eye view” and helps to avoid time overruns, reduces the cost overruns, mitigates the reworks in construction and also gains intangible benefits like customer satisfaction. The 3D modeling and design structure matrix (DSM) method have been the preferred solutions for interface management in the construction industry for some time. But for airport construction, which consists of a huge number of services, it is difficult to carry out interface management with the above methodologies, as it would be time consuming and costly. So, a new project management methodology has been proposed which deals with preparation of a physical interface matrix (PIM) and design interface management matrix (DIMM) from the 2D coordinated drawings, by which one can reduce the problem size and then perform 3D modeling. This leads to visualization of the actual interface problems so they can be mitigated during the design stage itself. This ...