A Decision Support Model for Civil Engineering Projects Based on Multi-Criteria and Various Data

Issa, Usama H.; Miky, Yehia; Abdel-malak, Fam F.

doi:10.3846/jcem.2019.7551

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“…The increasing popularity of this method relies on its transparency along the decision-making process and its adequacy to represent the rationale of human thinking. In addition, TOPSIS is a highly flexible method that allows for a comprehensive accommodation to the ever more used fuzzy (Issa et al, 2019;Polat et al, 2017) or neutrosophic (Navarro et al, 2019b) environments, without prejudicing its simplicity of use.…”

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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Bridge Design: A Review

Navarro

Penadés-Plà

Martí

et al. 2020

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Sustainable design of infrastructures has become a major matter of study since the recent establishment of the Agenda 2030. This paper provides a systematic literature review on the use of multi-criteria decision making techniques used so far for the sustainable design of bridges. Special attention is put as well on how the reviewed studies assess the sustainable performance of bridge designs along their life cycle from the economic, the environmental and the social perspective. Although SAW and AHP are recurrently used in the sustainable assessment of bridges, the analysis of the most recent articles show that the application of TOPSIS and PROMETHEE techniques are gaining increasing relevance for such purpose. Most of the studies focus on the research of the construction and the maintenance stage of bridges. However, a need for further analysis is identified when it comes to the assessment of the impacts resulting from the End of Life cycle stage of bridges from a sustainable point of view. The use of intuitionistic and neutrosophic logic have been detected as emerging alternatives to the fuzzy approach of decision making problems.

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Section: Discussion Of the Resultsmentioning

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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Bridge Design: A Review

Navarro

Penadés-Plà

Martí

et al. 2020

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…Jang et al (2018) assessed the green technologies related to urban infrastructure early in the project life cycle, and the evaluation criteria are the additional construction fee, initial construction fee, utilization rate of reducing construction equipment, utilization rate of recycled materials, utilization rate of eco-friendly construction materials, decreased rate of emissions, success factor of a construction project, and level of human capital. Issa et al (2019) selected the best surveying technique for solar energy projects and the identified five criteria are saving in costs, ease of use, rate of capture, applicability, and quality of data.…”

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“…From the scope of civil engineering, we can see that civil engineering involves a variety of decision-making problems. As Issa et al (2019) pointed out, multiple criteria 1 https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%9C%9F%E6%9C%A8%E5 %B7%A5%E7%A8%8B/389380?fr=aladdin decision making (MCDM) problems in the field of civil engineering are complicated due to the existence of a large number of evaluation criteria and the nature of conflicting among different criteria, such as the conflict between high quality and low cost. MCDM methods are found to be useful tools to solve the decision-making problems in the field of civil engineering (Abdel-malak et al, 2017).…”

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Applications of Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods in Civil Engineering: A State-of-the-Art Survey

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A variety of fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) models have been proposed to solve complicated decision-making problems. Many applications have been achieved, especially in the field of civil engineering. To analyze the developments about the fuzzy MCDM methods and their applications in civil engineering in recent years and further explore the future research directions, this study conducts a state of the art survey in which 52 journal papers focusing on the applications of fuzzy MCDM models in civil engineering from 2016 to 2020 are reviewed. We respectively classify these articles according to research problems and research methods. Through the literature review, we get findings in terms of the most concerned decision-making problem, the most widely-used evaluation criterion and the most popular fuzzy MCDM model. Furthermore, we present four aspects of research challenges and corresponding future research directions in the field of civil engineering, which may be helpful for researchers and practitioners to further investigate.

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“…Fuzzy logic can address indefinite datasets, including data featuring non-statistical uncertainties. In addition, the main benefit of fuzzy set theory compared to other methods is its capability to work with linguistics [23]. For these reasons, fuzzy sets can be used to qualify the linguistic variables that represent the characteristics of a certain project [24].…”

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Developing and Applying a Model for Evaluating Risks Affecting Greening Existing Buildings

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Improving building performance through reducing negative environmental impacts can be achieved by greening existing buildings (GEB), which is considered a very important sustainability process. Due to the risky and uncertain nature of the process of GEB, a growing amount of attention should be given to eliminating the effects of risks on GEB. This research aims to identify most expected risk factors related to GEB, as well as to evaluate their effects through calculating risk factor characteristics, such as risk factor presence (RFP), impact on the GEB process (IGEB), and impact on building performance in the long run (IBP), as new indices describe these risks. Sixty-six risk factors were categorized in seven risk groups related to the economic aspect, social aspect, environmental aspect, managerial aspect, sustainability operation, sustainable design, and renovation. Moreover, a fuzzy model for risk analysis was developed to combine the multi-effects of the aforementioned three risk factor characteristics in one index representing the risk factors’ overall importance. The model was applied and verified for data collected in Saudi Arabia. The results of this study showed that the most important risk group is the greening process of environmental control, while the least important is the greening process of renovation and construction. Using the proposed model improved the results of evaluating risks affecting GEB through merging the multi-effects of risk factor characteristics. The results and analysis proved that the most important key risk factors were environmental in nature. An intricate relationship of the impacts on the GEB process and building performance with the overall importance of the risk factors was clearly found. The decision makers who deal with greening projects in Saudi Arabia should be aware of the key risks identified in this study. The proposed methodology and model can be easily applied to other countries to help decision makers in evaluating their GEB projects, as well as comparing more greening projects based on risk analysis.

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A Decision Support Model for Civil Engineering Projects Based on Multi-Criteria and Various Data

Cited by 26 publications

References 24 publications

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Bridge Design: A Review

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment for Multi-Criteria Decision Making in Bridge Design: A Review

Applications of Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods in Civil Engineering: A State-of-the-Art Survey

Developing and Applying a Model for Evaluating Risks Affecting Greening Existing Buildings

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