APPLICATION OF A HYBRID MCDM METHOD IN CONSTRUCTION LOGISTICS

Abstract

Construction industry is one of the world leading industries that is why optimizing its processes is indispensable. Layout planning is an essential and determinative task of construction logistics. This paper is devoted to this problem and it is organized as follows: a chapter unfolds the criteria of site layout planning considered relevant by the authors. Then survey is conducted on Multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), fuzzy theory and their construction related researches. Next the authors propose a new method which is appropriate for solving the layout selection problem in construction sites, based on the mixture of hesitant fuzzy sets and well-known KIPA method, called HFS-KIPA. After the detailed description of the technique and its advantages, it is illustrated with an example taken from a close related article. Finally, results and future research directions are summarized.