Decision Support in Building Construction: A Systematic Review of Methods and Application Areas

Marcher, Carmen; Giusti, Andrea; Matt, Dominik T.

doi:10.3390/buildings10100170

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“…For the latter solution, advanced DSS can assist MCDM methods to collect and handle the big data of construction projects more sufficiently, comprehensively and agilely. With regard to interdisciplinary integration and advanced DSS as new and promising areas, Pan and Zhang (2021) and Marcher et al (2020) summarized the frontier and exploratory research in construction recently. In the future, more and closer attention should be given in construction to relevant research on interdisciplinary integration and advanced DSS for MCDM.…”

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Application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods in Construction: A Systematic Literature Review

Zhu

Meng

Zhang

2021

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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Decision making is a key to business or project success in any sectors, especially in construction that requires handling numerous information and knowledge. Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) is an important tool for decision problem solving due to simultaneous consideration of multiple criteria and objectives. Various MCDM methods are continually emerging and tend to be increasingly adopted to address the real-world construction problems. Therefore, it is urged to systematically review the existing body of literature to demonstrate the evolution of the mainstream MCDM methods in general and their application status in construction. A total of 530 construction articles published from 2000 to 2019 are selected in this study and then categorized into seven major application areas using a novel systematic literature review (SLR) methodology. The bibliometric analysis is then used to describe the research trend. Subsequently, the qualitative discussion by themes is conducted to analyze the application of MCDM methods in construction. A further discussion makes it possible to identify the potential challenges (e.g. applicability, robustness, postpone effect, dynamic and prospective challenges and scale problem) to existing research. It also contributes to the recommendation of future directions for the development of MCDM methods that would benefit construction research and practice.

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Section: Future Research Directions For Mcdm In Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods in Construction: A Systematic Literature Review

Zhu

Meng

Zhang

2021

Journal of Civil Engineering and Management

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“…The assessment is based on five stages, generally accepted by the majority of the researchers and practitioners: concept development, pre-design, design, construction, and operation [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]. Each stage can be rated by a maximum of 10 points (pre-design and design stage scores are combined).…”

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Smart Building Integration into a Smart City: Comparative Study of Real Estate Development

2020

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Smart buildings and smart cities are not the future perspectives anymore—the smart building integration into a smart city is an actual question for today and tomorrow. Development of smart buildings not only enhances the smart city concept but also promotes positivity to the urban development and national economy, and increases the quality of life of the whole population reacting to global challenges of sustainability. The innovative smart building and smart city technologies enable us to overcome these challenges by being employed through all real estate (RE) project development stages. The Evaluation Framework for Real Estate Development in Smart Cities created by the authors provides the possibility to assess the existing as well as to forecast future RE projects integration into a smart city during the whole life-cycle stage. The practical application of the presented evaluation framework was illustrated by the comparative case study. Based on the created smart building integration into a smart city evaluation framework for real estate development, 10 RE projects in Lithuania and over the world were assessed and rated by selected criteria relevant to different RE development stages. The evaluation results revealed that, especially at the design and construction stages, the existing intelligence of RE projects and/or cities is insufficient. Although real estate projects are technologically advanced as single entities, the integration into smart city networks is limited by interoperability capabilities of the cities or by different strategic goals settled by real estate developers.

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“…The use of mobile cranes with a telescopic boom (high lifting capacity and short set-up time) and the capability to travel within rugged site terrain makes it useful for house building combined with the ability to be rapidly deployed and to mechanically lift heavy loads, such as OSM timber kits. [8]. However, the uptake of non-traditional construction OSM timber kit homes using a…”

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Maximizing Construction of Timber Kit Homes Using Telescopic Crane to Improve Efficiency and Safety: A Case Study

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The challenges of improving efficiency and safety is a daunting task as workers are squeezed with an ever-dwindling resource pool and yet expected to deliver construction projects at optimum capacity. Improving efficiency and safety using telescopic cranes for the construction of Off-Site Manufacturing (OSM) timber kit homes is a viable option for the speedy delivery of new homes. An action research evaluated the maximization of the build and process efficiency and safety using a crane to erect wall panels, floors, and roofs. Data collection through direct observation assessed the labor uptime and downtime, including crane usage. A balanced score card was used by management for strategic organizational decision-making regarding the crane erection. The use of the crane reduced workplace manual handling of OSM panels, minimized the exposure of operatives to work at height risks, and eliminated alterations to scaffolds. However, the manual loading of thermal-insulated plasterboards to floor decks impacted the process efficiency and speed of installing the fixtures and increased the risk of musculoskeletal disorders. High labor downtimes were associated with the adverse weather conditions, which slowed the efficiency of the workforce during construction. The management’s inability to adequately plan the work program further hindered aspects of lifting operations and the speed and number of houses built.

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Decision Support in Building Construction: A Systematic Review of Methods and Application Areas

Cited by 27 publications

References 109 publications

Application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods in Construction: A Systematic Literature Review

Application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making Methods in Construction: A Systematic Literature Review

Smart Building Integration into a Smart City: Comparative Study of Real Estate Development

Maximizing Construction of Timber Kit Homes Using Telescopic Crane to Improve Efficiency and Safety: A Case Study

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