Pattern-aware floor-tile layout optimization and schedule-constrained off-cut reuse in multi-room buildings

  • Nguyen Thi Thu Hao

    Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Dien Hong Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vo Truong Toan Street, Linh Xuan Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  • Vo Le Ngoc Dien

    College of Engineering, Can Tho University, Campus II, 3/2 Street, Ninh Kieu Ward, Can Tho City, Vietnam
  • Doan Dinh Thien Vuong

    Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Dien Hong Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vo Truong Toan Street, Linh Xuan Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Email: vuong.doanhcmut@hcmut.edu.vn
Từ khóa: floor tile layout, off-cut reuse, construction sequencing, multi-objective optimization, construction waste, simulated annealing

Tóm tắt

Tile cut away at room edges wastes material and embodied carbon, yet layout optimizers treat one pattern in one room. This paper develops a two-dimensional layout and packing algorithm: four laying patterns obey a minimum-cut rule, off-cuts are reused across rooms only along precedence-feasible tiling orders searched by simulated annealing, and layouts are compared on waste, cutting effort and an embodied-carbon indicator. Geometry can be read one-way from an Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) model and the indicator covers the tile only, so the framework is neither a complete building information modelling workflow nor a life-cycle assessment. On five computational benchmarks with one tile product per dwelling, default setting-out, a 10 cm minimum cut and nominal joint-free dimensions, reuse lowers the waste of running bond by 53%, and schedule-constrained cross-room reuse lowers waste by 24% and 70% relative to within-room reuse in six- and eight-room apartments (median 37% over 60 random apartments); simulated annealing matched enumeration wherever possible (non-trivially only for six rooms). The eight-room value is a favourable case, because its spans let off-cuts fit later pieces exactly. With 2-3 mm joints and a 2.5 mm kerf the gains are 20-21% and 13-15% (median 28-29%); when as-built span deviations, separate wet-area tiles and one rejected off-cut in five are added, they average 16-17% and 10-18%. Reuse also assumes one production lot; site validation is future work.

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Nguyen Thi Thu, H., Vo Le Ngoc, D., & Doan Dinh Thien, V. (1794675600). Pattern-aware floor-tile layout optimization and schedule-constrained off-cut reuse in multi-room buildings. Tạp Chí Khoa Học Giao Thông Vận Tải, 77(9), 1291-1305. https://doi.org/10.47869/tcsj.77.9.12