Abstract: Schools are some of the most critical public facilities in urban and metropolitan areas. The location of schools not only affects the costs of construction and travel but also significantly affects the social welfare of ...

Abstract: The growing rate of building information modeling (BIM) adoption inevitability adds to the importance of understanding the BIM adoption decision-making process. Several models based on systematic surveys are available in ...

Abstract: Multiskilling allows for dynamic reallocation of workers from one stage of production to another in response to bottleneck configurations and, therefore, has been advocated as a potential strategy to improve productivity ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the airport facility location problem considering environmental impacts and induced changes to traffic on the underlying road network. An optimization model is developed, where multiple objectives are ...

Abstract: The presence of multiskilled workers in a crew can increase the crew’s productivity through reducing inefficiencies and supervision requirements, while also providing on-the-job learning opportunities for single-skilled ...

Abstract: Off-site transportation of construction materials is planned commonly by considering the transportation costs as the dominant decision variable. Despite the significant impact of delays in the delivery of materials on the ...

Abstract: Optimizing the layout of facilities on a construction site to minimize the material handling costs has been widely investigated in the literature. An integral part of the objective function utilized in the previously ...

Abstract: Off-site transportation of construction materials is planned commonly by considering the transportation costs as the dominant decision variable. Despite the significant impact of delays in the delivery of materials on the ...