Fuzzy Logic Use for Decision Making in Construction Industry

Abstract

Decision making in a construction industry is a tough job of project manager due to complexnature of industry. This project presents a fuzzy approach for decision making using a fuzzy expert system to give an additional tool to the project manager while taking adecision. This project defines various selection criteria for contractor selection with using fuzzy logic and fuzzy approach to select best suited from alternatives. Fuzzy set theory is related to inexact and vague information which we deal in the construction industry. Construction clients had realized through the last decades that the lowest price bid is not always the best. Evaluation of contractors based on multi-criteria basis is, therefore, becoming more important to the construction industry. This project describes the decision-making model for selection of a contractor for construction projects.