Literature shows that LOB schedules are better understood and more easily updated, facilitate better resource optimization, provide improved visual management, and are more capable in scheduling construction projects with a repetitive nature. Jogeling and Olofsson (2007) in their studies explained their advocacy of LOB scheduling and claimed that the technique has not been widely adopted in the construction industry “mainly due to the strong tradition of activity-based planning and the absence of software packages that support location-based planning” (Jogeling and Olofsson, 2007). Line of Balance scheduling is a location-based scheduling technique. When compared to the activity-based CPM, LOB provides a more practical scheduling method in implementing Building Information Modeling technologies. Jongeling and Olofsson (2007) stated that “location-based scheduling provides a promising alternative to activity-based planning approaches for planning of work-flow with 4D CAD. RSM is a scheduling methodology that simplifies and generalizes various multiunit scheduling procedures previously proposed by several authors and known by a number of different names. It applies to both vertical and horizontal projects containing either discrete or continuous activities. An RSM schedule is presented graphically as an X-Y plot of a series of production lines, each of which represent a repetitive activity. names that have been used include: “Line of Balance” (O’Brien 1969; Carr and Meyer 1974; Halpin and
Woodhead 1976; Harris and Evans 1977); “Construction Planning Technique” (Peer 1974; Selinger 1980); “Vertical Production Method”
(O’Brien 1975; Barrie and Paulson 1978); “Time-
Location Matrix Model” (Birrell 1980); “Time Space Scheduling Method” (Stradal and Cacha 1982);
“Disturbance Scheduling” (Whiteman and Irwig 1988); or “Horizontal and Vertical Logic Scheduling for Multistory Projects” (Thabet and Beliveau 1994).For highways, pipelines, tunnels, etc., where progress is measured in terms of horizontal length,