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Handling construction pollutions using multi-objective optimization

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  • Mohamed Marzouk
  • Magdy Madany
  • Azza Abou-Zied
  • Moheeb El-said

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Quantitative assessment of emissions associated with construction projects should be carried out during the planning phase of the projects. This is important to detect and highlight any excesses of residuals during the construction phase. A newly developed framework is proposed to handle construction pollution using multi-objective optimization. The approach, utilized by the proposed framework, is based on calculating the generated pollution for each activity involved in the project, as a result of dust, harmful gases and noise. The results of the quantitative assessment are integrated in a utility function that expresses the amount of total pollution. Then, evolutionary genetic algorithms (GAs) are used to carry multi-objective optimization, considering three objective functions (project duration, project cost and total pollution). The proposed application considers the dynamic nature of construction activities including different types of relationships and the change of activities' criticality. An actual case study is worked out to demonstrate the practical use of the proposed framework and to investigate the sensitivity of its parameters.

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  • Mohamed Marzouk & Magdy Madany & Azza Abou-Zied & Moheeb El-said, 2008. "Handling construction pollutions using multi-objective optimization," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(10), pages 1113-1125.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:26:y:2008:i:10:p:1113-1125
    DOI: 10.1080/01446190802400779
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    1. Sayyid Ali Banihashemi & Mohammad Khalilzadeh & Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas & Jurgita Antucheviciene, 2021. "Investigating the Environmental Impacts of Construction Projects in Time-Cost Trade-Off Project Scheduling Problems with CoCoSo Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Method," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(19), pages 1-17, September.
    2. Sayyid Ali Banihashemi & Mohammad Khalilzadeh, 2023. "Towards sustainable project scheduling with reducing environmental pollution of projects: fuzzy multi-objective programming approach to a case study of Eastern Iran," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(8), pages 7737-7767, August.
    3. Michał Tomczak & Piotr Jaśkowski, 2021. "Preferences of Construction Managers Regarding the Quality and Optimization Criteria of Project Schedules," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-22, January.
    4. Wei He & Wenjing Li & Wei Wang, 2021. "Developing a Resource Allocation Approach for Resource-Constrained Construction Operation under Multi-Objective Operation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(13), pages 1-22, June.

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