Print Email Facebook Twitter Optimization of Container Terminal Development: Adopting Virtual Design and Construction Title Optimization of Container Terminal Development: Adopting Virtual Design and Construction Author Aceves, J. Contributor Verbraeck, A. (mentor) Wiegmans, B. (mentor) Van de Ruitenbeek, M. (mentor) Reenalda, M. (mentor) Luchtenberg, G. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport & Planning Programme Transport, Infrastructure & Logistics Date 2014-08-29 Abstract The current research is conducted in the context of APM Terminals, one of the largest container terminal operators worldwide. As a terminal operator, APM Terminals has detected the opportunity to increase operational capacity by developing container terminal infrastructure. Therefore, APM Terminals has expanded its activities from operations to design and construction. In this process, multiple projects have faced obstacles during the development phase related to the multidisciplinary coordination of stakeholders. This situation has been suspected to generate a negative impact on project performance. In order to optimize the current state of container terminal development it was decided to investigate the potential of adopting Virtual Design and Construction as an optimization strategy for container terminal development. At the moment of conducting this research, there is no existing documentation on the use of Virtual Design and Construction for the development of container terminals and even though there are numerous research papers which provide proof of positive benefits derived from using Virtual Design and Construction (such as reduced change orders during construction ranging from 0.5% to 85%) to this day the adoption rate of Virtual Design and Construction is still only slowly raising across the AEC industry. For this reason, this thesis proposes a new approach to the adoption of Virtual Design and Construction by focusing in stakeholders and their behaviour. As a result of this approach, this thesis developed a change management strategy for the adoption of Virtual Design and Construction focused on creating a positive attitude on stakeholders. The theoretical framework was validated by conducting a Focus Group session which involved eleven multidisciplinary experts on designing and constructing container terminals and two users of Virtual Design and Construction from a construction company and a consulting firm, respectively. A prototype of the building information model was demonstrated to the experts to allow them to develop a personal opinion of the potential benefits that they envision through the adoption of Virtual Design and Construction. With the results collected from the Focus Group, the relevance of stakeholders and their behaviour towards the adoption of Virtual Design and Construction was validated. Finally, this thesis provides an Action Plan to adopt Virtual Design and Construction in the multidisciplinary organization of container terminal development. Subject container terminal developmentlean constructionvirtual design and constructionfocus group To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c32bbe2f-e916-4495-8d92-a8793ba570fa Embargo date 2017-08-29 Coordinates 52.07875, 4.32001 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2014 Aceves, J. Files PDF Jessica_Aceves_Aug_15_Gra ... s_Full.pdf 3.72 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c32bbe2f-e916-4495-8d92-a8793ba570fa/datastream/OBJ/view