• MOXESH SHAH
• Amitkumar N. Bhavsar

Site layout planning is exercised in early stages of project for allocating the temporary facilities and major construction equipment such as tower crane on site for improving the productivity and efficient utilization of workspaces. For transportation of heavy materials and machineries on building construction site many types of hoisting equipment are used but tower crane is popular among them. Reinforcement steel, formwork and shuttering, concrete, fabrication steel and other weighted equipment are mainly lifted by tower crane. Resources such as man hour, time, cost and energy are associated with each lift of tower crane, number of lifts by tower crane and model of tower crane. wrong Selection of tower crane position on site solely on the compilation of constraints, governing factors and past experience could lead to extra cost and even delay to the projects. Utilizing the modern BIM technology accompanied with optimization techniques can make the process of tower crane selection more accurate, logical and scientific. Main motive of this paper is to study the work done by researchers in the area of tower crane optimization for selecting the type, number and location on construction site.

Tower crane, BIM, Feasible Region, optimization method.

"DECISION SUPPORT FOR TOWER CRANE PLANNING BASED ON BIM & OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE-A REVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.300-305, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904P47.pdf

"DECISION SUPPORT FOR TOWER CRANE PLANNING BASED ON BIM & OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE-A REVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp300-305, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904P47.pdf