Abstract: Construction engineering and management are vital for successful project execution, and both researchers and practitioners continually seek ways to improve construction processes. Fuzzy logic plays an important role in ...

Abstract: Construction organizations have been implementing different actions to control and mitigate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their workers and operations. Although some of these actions allowed construction organizations ...

Abstract: The majority of competency and performance modeling methods available in the literature are deterministic conceptual, statistical, and/or regression models that cannot capture the subjective uncertainty, complex, and ...

Abstract: Construction organizations are project-based organizations in which both competencies and performance develop through project execution. A competency measure is a combination of knowledge, skill, processes, practices, ...

Abstract: This paper describes a model for use in predicting potential cost overruns on engineering design projects. The output of the model is useful in assessing the amount of possible risk on a project and the likelihood of making ...

Abstract: The objective of this technical note is to illustrate the application of fuzzy expert systems to the modeling of a practical problem—that of predicting the labor productivity of two common industrial construction activities: ...

Abstract: In construction, many owners mitigate the risk of unforeseen contractor default by accepting only bonded contractors who must endure a rigorous evaluation process by surety brokers and surety underwriters. This evaluation ...

Abstract: The performance of a fuzzy expert system (FES) is significantly affected by the accuracy of its knowledge base parameters (membership functions and rule bases). The main contribution of this paper is in presenting a ...

Abstract: The nature of the construction industry is characterized by many risks and uncertainty inherent in every phase of the project life cycle. Risk management, therefore, is essential for a construction project to succeed in ...

Abstract: Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is recognized as one of the most beneficial techniques in reliability programs. FMEA is a structured technique that can help in identifying all failure modes within a system, assessing ...