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Reliability and Sustainable Risk Management of Construction Process and Projects

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 2170

Special Issue Editors

Faculty of Civil and Transport Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznań, Poland
Interests: risk analysis in construction project; life cycle cost modelling of buildings with consideration of the risk; reliability, risk management, and contingency of construction processes; quantification of the risk in life cycle cost; construction delays causing risks on time and cost—case study, critical review; disturbance analysis and their impact on delays in construction process, projects, industry investment/construction risk modeling
Department of Industrial Engineering, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran
Interests: operations research and its applications in energy; supply chain; and project management
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Dear Colleagues, 

Risk is a key element in the construction process. Each construction project is unique, sometimes requiring an interdisciplinary approach due to the presence of various factors. These are key factors for the success of a project in a sustainable environment. Failure to keep to deadlines and remain in the planned budget are important for all participants of the investment process. However, with the increase in the complexity of facilities and the complexity of construction processes, a methodical approach to sustainable risk management at both the planning and implementation stages, as well as in the life cycle of the building, is needed. The development of risk analysis methods presents an interesting evolution of concepts, methods, techniques, hybrid solutions, as well as different cases. This Special Issue provides a platform for presenting the latest occupational safety research and the progress of risk analysis in construction processes and projects. Review and application articles based on the verification of practical applications in the area of construction process and sustainability are welcome.

Dr. Agnieszka Dziadosz
Guest Editor

Dr. Hêriş Golpîra
Co-Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable risk management
  • risk models, tools, and techniques
  • economic risk
  • construction risk assessment
  • occupational safety
  • construction delays
  • cost overruns
  • risk strategies
  • reliability
  • contingency
  • modeling and simulations

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20 pages, 727 KiB  
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Reliability Assessment of Highway Bridges Based on Combined Empowerment–TOPSIS Method
by Baosheng Xu, Ningning Qi, Jianpeng Zhou and Qingfu Li
Sustainability 2022, 14(13), 7793; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14137793 - 26 Jun 2022
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Abstract
(1) In recent years, with the continuous increase of the state’s investment in infrastructure, the construction of highways and bridges has developed rapidly, which has brought great convenience to people’s lives. At the same time, with the increase of bridge service time, the [...] Read more.
(1) In recent years, with the continuous increase of the state’s investment in infrastructure, the construction of highways and bridges has developed rapidly, which has brought great convenience to people’s lives. At the same time, with the increase of bridge service time, the reliability of bridges declines. In order to meet the requirements of sustainable development, it is necessary to accurately evaluate the reliability of bridges. However, most of the existing evaluation methods have single-weighting and one-sidedness. There are problems such as strong subjectivity and overly simple evaluation procedures. Therefore, it is urgent to establish a new scientific bridge reliability evaluation system. (2) Methods. In this paper, a bridge superstructure is taken as the research object, and the “Technical Condition Assessment Standard for Highway Bridges” (JTG/T H21-2011) is used as the criterion to establish a bridge reliability evaluation index system. The subjective and objective weights of the evaluation indicators are based on minimum discriminant information. Each evaluation indicator is combined and weighted; then, the closeness of each evaluation object to the positive ideal solution is determined according to Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). Finally, the reliability level of each evaluation object is determined. (3) Results. Reliability evaluation of the three-span superstructure of the bridge was carried out, and final reliability evaluation results of “Grade 2, Grade 2, Grade 2” were obtained, which are consistent with the actual working state of the bridge. (4) Conclusions. The evaluation results of this paper are consistent with the results obtained by the traditional AHP–Extenics method, but the evaluation model of this paper adopts combined weighting, which avoids the one-sidedness of the weighting of a single method—thus, the comprehensive weight obtained not only reflects the subjective intention of decision makers, but also reflects the objective properties of the data. Full article
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