Modern high-rise buildings may be configured into spaces of widely varying specifications.
This situation creates a diverse building environment with multiple variables that make fire …

The present study develops a new optimization algorithm to find the complete time-cost
profile (Pareto front) over a set of feasible project durations, ie, it solves the time-cost trade-off …

The architectural environment is always changing, as high-rise buildings and complex interior
spaces are constructed, causing a wide variety of unpredictable disasters and accidents. …

Inaccurate early project cost estimates can eliminate investment benefits. This study focuses
on assisting estimators who are attempting to enhance the accuracy and reliability of …

Lately the Best-Value (BV) method for contractor selection has been receiving considerable
attention in the public sector in many countries. However, the operations used in performing …

The project crashing analysis is to minimize the required cost while meeting a specified
deadline. In practice, this problem may be of great complexity because industrial professionals …

Projects with repeating activities, such as multistory buildings and highways, present unique
scheduling challenges. This paper presents the necessary requirements that scheduling …

The public procurement process involves contractor selection, where AHP (Analytic Hierarchy
Process) has been widely applied to reflect decision makers’ (DMs) preference and …

Any project has to be supported financially. The budget allocated to the project, however, is
subject to uncertainty due to various financial, market, and political risks. The present paper …

In this paper, we schedule construction projects that are repetitively performed by similar
resources (labor and equipment) from one location to another when the supply of resources …