DECISION-MAKING PROCESS TECHNIQUES USED IN THE OPTIMIZATION OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

Year 2018, Volume: 13 Issue: 2, 128 - 136, 21.04.2018

Tayfun Dede

Abstract

It is desirable that the construction projects can be completed in the
most appropriate manner at the desired time, cost or other purposes. If any of
these requests are solely aimed, the appropriate project parameters can be
determined and the results such as the optimal time or cost can be determined
after an optimization process. If more than one goal is to be achieved at the
same time, the decision making process becomes more difficult. In this case,
rather than a single final result, multiple results can be obtained. A number
of techniques are used to optimize both time and cost. In this study, the
techniques proposed for this purpose in the literature have been examined and
some of these techniques have been applied to the construction projects
considered as time-cost problem. Also, the TLBO algorithm, popular in recent
years, has been the preferred in the solution of the multi-objective
optimization problem. Construction project business activities which are taken
into account as a time-cost problem in the literature are examined as numerical
examples. A computer program is developed to realize the time-cost trade-off
problem by using MATLAB.

Keywords

Optimization, Construction Project, Decision-Making, Construction, MATLAB

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