Mobile multi-site construction project management for developing countries

The research objectives of this thesis are that, to develop and propose real-time project management methods, which are processed within a new framework – Mobile Multi-Site Construction Project Management (MOMUSCOM). This is the combination of mobile devices, wireless technology and a new scheduling method Multi-Site Construction Project Scheduling – MCOPS, applying for the consistent management and continual solving the unexpected changes such that conform to actual situations in multi-site project environments and more importantly, for generations of overall business strategies of construction firms. The new scheduling method MCOPS is used to construct a feasible and stable schedule for multiple construction projects, which are geographically distributed in different places. The focus of this method is to solve the problem of minimising construction multiproject duration in combination with the moving time of required resource among activities/projects under limited available conditions of renewable resources (labour, machines and equipment). Though the efforts in this thesis are based on the Vietnamese construction conditions, the proposed methods can be usefully applied in other developing countries which have similar construction conditions.