Trade-off between safety and cost in planning construction site layouts

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1186-1195

  El Rayes, Khaled ^a,b   Khalafallah, Ahmed ^b  

^a ASCE ^*  (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction management; Construction sites; Cost control; Evolutionary computation; Optimization; Safety; Site evaluation; Site preparation, construction

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION SITES; COST CONTROL; SITE EVALUATION; SITE PREPARATION, CONSTRUCTION;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; SITE SELECTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 27744546885     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2005)131:11(1186)     Document Type: Article

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