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Record W4414354050 · doi:10.1061/jladah.ladr-1335

Framework for 4D Simulation Collaboration in Construction Delay Claims

2025· article· en· W4414354050 on OpenAlexaff
Michel Guévremont

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBIM and Construction Integration
Canadian institutionsHydro-Québec
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNegotiationScheme (mathematics)Construction managementConstruction industryKey (lock)

Abstract

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Four-dimensional (4D) simulation is an accepted innovation in the field of project management, in forensic delay analysis, and often considered with developments of building information modeling on major capital construction projects. Yet, the industry leaders using it and related researchers do not specify much of the requirements involved with 4D simulation constructability collaboration review. This article provides a conceptual framework of such 4D collaboration reviews including the perimeter of required related activities, key characteristics, and metrics involved with 4D simulation generation. It provides experienced benefits associated with 4D simulation constructability collaboration review including delay claims avoidance elements. Involved stakeholders mentioned the 4D simulation as a proactive method useful for cross-examination and detection in relation to sequence changes, scope changes, design changes, and additional useful project details. 4D simulation reduces blind spots generated with classic project schedule reviews including changes, causation, and impacts, which are useful aspects for the lawyers. This article shows two projects with 4D simulation deliverables and reports that experienced earlier constructability validation, scenarios with less conflicts, reduced number of changes and reworks on site, became less risky and encouraged completion with respect of the as-planned construction schedule. The resulting implication are 4D simulation and collaboration reviews to reduce delays and claims, including false claims, and as dissuasion tools.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.642
Threshold uncertainty score0.592

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.230 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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