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Olli Seppänen
Olli Seppänen is an Associate Professor of Practice at the Aalto University School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering. His field of expertise as a professor is operations management in construction. His research interests include real-time production control, location based management systems, prefabrication / modular construction and digitalized construction operations. Olli has been an active member of the International Group of Lean Construction, and was the Scientific Chair of the conference in 2015. He is working on two major research initiatives for the built environment: Building2030 and Digitalizing Construction Workflows.
Articles By This Author
Using Indoor Positioning to Analyze Operations Flow
Flow in construction can be divided to process flow, operations flow and portfolio flow (Sacks, 2016). Various metrics have been proposed to measure flow but they are typically based on completing assigned or promised tasks.
Introduction to Location Based Management System: CPM on Steroids Combined with Flowline Visualization
The Location-based Management System (LBMS) builds on decades of work on location-based scheduling methods. The first recorded utilization of location-based methods in vertical construction was in the Empire State Building.
A Deeper Look into LBMS Controlling System – Preventing Cascading Delays
In my previous post about LBMS, I mentioned that cascading delays can cause project duration increases of 10% or more. This blog article digs a bit deeper and explains what cascading delays are, why they happen in construction projects and how LBMS controlling can help to prevent them.