Growing concern in the management of energy due to the increasing energy costs, has forced managers to optimize the amount of energy required to provide products and services. This research integrates an energy-based resource investment project-scheduling problem (RIP) under a multi-skilled structure of the resources. The proposed energy based multi skilled resource investment problem (EB-MSRIP...

Construction supply-chain management offers new approaches to reduce the cost of and increase the reliability and speed of facility construction. Supply-chain management takes a systems view of the production activities of autonomous production units (subcontractors and suppliers in construction) and seeks global optimization of these activities. Applications of supply-chain management techniqu...

The UK construction industry has been branded as an inefficient, fragmented and non-value delivering industry by prominent critics such as Michael Latham and Sir. John Egan; both have insisted on the need to change the way the industry delivers and manages assets through integrated project processes. Sir. John Egan specifically highlighted the need for significant reduction in project time and ...

The author describes an expert-system tool that can be used to analyze patterns of cost-driver ratings submitted for a Cocomo cost estimate. These results help users determine and rank associated sources of project risk. ood software risk management requires human judgment, and is often difficult to implement because of the scarcity of seasoned experts and the unique characteristics of individu...

Safety risk management has a considerable effect on disproportionate injury rate of construction industry, project cost and both labor and public morale. On the other hand time-cost optimization (TCO) may earn a big profit for project stakeholders. This paper has addressed these issues to present a multi-objective optimization model to simultaneously optimize total time, total cost and overall ...

Project management is an important factor to accomplish the decision to implement large-scale software systems (LSS) in a successful manner. The effective project management comes into play to plan, coordinate and control such a complex project. Project management factor has been argued as one of the important Critical Success Factor (CSF), which need to be measured and monitored carefully duri...

Resource planning in large-scale construction projects has been a complicated management issue requiring mechanisms to facilitate decision making for managers. In the present study, a computer-aided simulation model is developed based on concurrent control of resources and revenue/expenditure. The proposed method responds to the demand of resource management and scheduling in shell material emb...