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Developing an Initial Layout

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This lecture resource covers the basics of creating an initial block layout design of a facility.  The slide set initially presents From-To, Flow-Between and Relationship charts.  It then introduces adjacency and layout scoring and the construction of activity and space relationship diagrams.   The CORELAP algorithm is then introduced along with an example for selecting and placing departments.  A heuristic procedure for developing a layout is then presented.  Finally, a general procedure for graph based layout construction is presented and discussed.

This module was developed by Dr. Jose Ventura.