Assignment and Allocation Optimization of a Partially Multiskilled Workforce

The success of multiskilling greatly relies on the foreman's ability to assign workers to appropriate tasks and compose crews effectively. The foreman assigns tasks to workers according to their knowledge, capabilities and experience on former projects (Rodriguez 1998). To obtain the maximum benefits from multiskilling, practitioners have stated that automated tools that optimize allocation and assignment of workers would be valuable (Rodriguez 1998). This research describes efforts directed toward developing tools that optimize the allocation and assignment of multiskilled workers to activities in a construction project.