A Comprehensive Evaluation Model with TOPSIS Method for Construction Site Layout of Building Projects and Its Applications
Publication: Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume 150, Issue 3
Abstract
Environmental issues are often neglected in previous studies on site layout evaluation problems. To address this research gap, a comprehensive evaluation model is developed to evaluate construction site layout planning in this paper. The proposed evaluation model includes four aspects: (1) land use; (2) safety; (3) logistics; and (4) sustainability evaluations. To make the results of the evaluation more accurate, the evaluation model includes the subjective factors that need to be scored by the experts and the objective factors that could be gained from the inspections of the projects and the related materials. Then, the entropy weight method-based Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is chosen to solve the proposed multicriteria evaluation model. In this paper, the construction site layout planning for four different typical and practical cases, which include two commercial mixed buildings, a residential building, and a sewage treatment plant, is studied. The evaluation results proved that the proposed model is suitable to evaluate common types of construction, such as residential and commercial buildings but not specific functional types, such as the sewage treatment plant.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their invaluable comments and suggestions for the manuscript. This research was supported by a research grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (Nos. 23YJCZH136 and 21YJC630006), the Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Project of the Education Department of Hubei Province, China (22Q072), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72102171) and the Graduate Education and Teaching Research Project of Wuhan University of Engineering (No. 2023JYXM04).
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Received: Apr 11, 2023
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