Monitoring and Decision Making in the Construction Industry

This book discusses construction monitoring tools and their applications. The purpose of this book is to develop awareness of and skills in current construction monitoring tools and frameworks: challenges and obstacles, and modern practices and techniques in construction monitoring such as earned value analysis in time and cost control, Fuzzy and AHP approaches, Critical Path Method, Ant Colony Optimization in construction monitoring, and finally, the Kaizen concept in construction management. Hence, the targeted readers of this book are project managers, construction site engineers, project planners, project contractors, researchers, academics, civil engineers, consultants, technicians, people in top management, and students in the field of construction.