Optimizing the Duration of the Construction Projects in Egypt by Using Goal Programming

Abstract

Construction project`s duration and cost are critical elements in the economy of today`s market. The relationship between the project duration and cost is called time-cost trade-off analysis or decisions. Time-cost trade-off is very important to crash the activities that lies on the critical path to achieve the project deadline duration. Existing techniques and strategies that deals with time – cost trade-off issue, which is involved in planning the projects, have concentrated and focused on basic approaches that does not represent construction project in reality, such as generalized activity precedence relationship, external time constraints, milestones for particular activities, quality considerations, resource availability and also bonuses and penalties costs. The aim of this thesis is to develop a mathematical solution method considering some of the additional realistic project characteristics mentioned above, which are generalized activity precedence relationship, external time constraints, milestones for particular activities and also bonuses and penalties costs.