A Weather Generator for Use in Construction Simulation Models

In cold regions, weather poses uncertainty to construction projects. Project schedules can signif- icantly deviate from original plans. Management requires reliable plans and schedules to set project activity times and baseline schedules against which the project performance will be measured; with winter weather uncertainty in cold regions, this task becomes quite challenging. In this paper, a universal weather generator for use in construction simulation purposes is presented, with the detailed approach for generating each of the dierent suggested weather parameters. The universal weather generator has been developed and given param- eters for two cities in Alberta: Edmonton and Fort McMurray. The model parameters for both cities are given in order to facilitate future utilization of the model for academic and industrial research. To promote reusability and interoperability of the framework in future applications, the weather generator was developed using High Level Architecture (HLA), which showed great potential and suitability for this work.