Patent ID: 8244569

Claim:
A system for location-based management of construction comprising: a plurality of locations system implemented on a processor and configured to generate one or more locations where construction activities associated with one or more elements in each location can be performed; a construction activity location system implemented on a processor and configured to associate each of a plurality of construction tasks with one of the locations, wherein each of the plurality of construction tasks are associated with each location and are not associated with the elements in each location; an element splitting system implemented on a processor and configured to receive an element selection and to split a selected element associated with the element selection, where the selected element has two or more locations, and to form an association with one of a plurality of construction tasks of the location with a first new sub-element associated with a first location of the split element and another of the plurality of construction tasks of the location with a second new sub-element associated with a second location of the split element; a construction activity association system implemented on a processor and configured to associate one or more of the plurality of construction tasks with one or more of the other construction tasks; a construction sequence system implemented on a processor and configured to generate a sequence of construction tasks based on the layer associated with each construction task and based on the other construction tasks associated with each construction task; a risk modeling system implemented on a processor configured to apply a statistical distribution for one or more of a work crew start time distribution and a weather risk delay distribution to the construction tasks associated with the first and second new sub-elements and the sequence of construction tasks to generate a schedule risk; and wherein the construction activity location system is further configured to select a set of the split locations where an associated quantity is greater than zero and create a plurality of tasks for the set of split locations.