Focusing on economic means, construction by us is characterized on the basis of time and cost intensive production processes which make it prone to project risks and failure, mainly in terms of time and money. In practice, this means, that the performance of construction projects is usually low. In particular, construction projects are very often delayed and over budgeted. This is not just due to problems faced during project scheduling, but also during related processes such as material procurement and material management. These aspects are very minutely taken care by our team.

Our industry can be considered as a unique industry as the projects are customer driven. We have standardized construction processes to achieve competitive advantages over the competitors. Concluding, sophisticated methods for project planning and control for design-to-order planning are observed by us to tackle the complexity of individual projects.

Construction delays due to the difficulties of generalization of approaches to be developed. Instead, supply chains of the traditional manufacturing industries have been well researched and have been tackled with qualitative as well as quantitative methods by our team. These perform well for standardized production processes. Thereby, usually concepts for make-to-stock, assemble-to- order or make-to-order production are developed and have been established so far by us.

One important aspect in construction supply chain planning remains the proper project time planning. We adopt  methods such as the Critical Path Method (CPM), the Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT), the Metra potential method (MPM), and Gantt charts have been applied in construction and have maintained their role for construction project planning by us.

The main objectives of our organization  is to develop new solution approaches for construction project planning problems by adopting concepts for production planning known from the manufacturing industries to construction projects, and to set out new perspectives on the reorganization of project planning processes in construction.

We also concentrate on project planning with respect to energy efficiency  as well as  materials. In particular, an integrated deconstruction-recovery planning approach for deconstruction projects is developed to include ecological as well as economic benefits throughout the life cycle of the entire project. We also make energy analysis, as it  is derived for the evaluation of the environmental impact of product recovery.