Toward reducing construction project delivery time under limited resources

Abstract

One of the most vital construction project aspects is to complete a project in minimum time restricted to the time–cost trade‐off. Overlapping activities’ planning and their impact on the project under limited resource constraints should be considered. This study aims to develop a model for optimizing the project schedule and cost regarding overlap activities and their impacts. This study reviews previous studies on changes in past activities likely to produce additional reworking of subsequent activities. In addition, an AHP model is developed to assess the reworking time of subsequent activities based on possible changes in previous activities. In addition, five realistic construction projects are applied. Finally, an optimizing model is developed for optimizing project time and cost using overlapping techniques by using the Java program. The results indicate that the pro-posed model can be used by project managers easily for solving time and cost optimization prob-lems. In addition, it can be updated to continuously improve its functionality. Finally, it can be updated later to support AI for finding better solutions.