Abstract
Facing the pressure of environment, sustainable development is the demand of the current construction industry development. Prefabricated construction technologies has been actively promoted in China. Cost has always been one of the important factors in the development of prefabricated buildings. The hidden cost of prefabricated buildings has a great impact on the total cost of the project, and it exists in the whole process of building construction. In this paper innovatively studies the cost of prefabricated buildings from the perspective of hidden cost. In order to analysis the hidden cost of prefabricated buildings, the influencing factor index system in terms of design, management, technology, policy and environment has been established, which includes 13 factors in total. And the hidden cost analysis model has been proposed based on FISM-BN, this model combines fuzzy interpretive structure model(FISM) with Bayesian network(BN). This model can comprehensively analyze the hidden cost through the combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. And the analysis process is dynamic, not fixed at a certain point in time to analyze the cost. We can get the internal logical relationship among the influencing factors of the hidden cost, and present it in the form of intuitive chart by FISM-BN. Furthermore the model could not only predict the probability of the hidden cost of prefabricated buildings and realize in-time control through causal reasoning, but also predict the posterior probability of other influencing factors through diagnostic reasoning when the hidden cost occurs and find out the key factors that lead to the hidden cost. Then the final influencing factors are determined after one by one check. Finally, the model is demonstrated on the hidden cost analysis of prefabricated buildings the probability of recessive cost is 26%. In the analysis and control of the hidden cost of prefabricated buildings, scientific and effective decision-making and reference opinions are provided for managers.
Highlights
Through Bayesian network (BN) model learning and reasoning calculation, we can predict the probability of the occurrence of hidden cost, find out the key factors leading to the occurrence of hidden cost, which can effectively predict the hidden cost in advance
Fuzzy interpretive structural model (FISM) can transform fuzzy concepts and views into a visual graph model with good structural relationship [44, 45], which can intuitively express the relationship between the influencing factors
The interpretative structural modeling (ISM) method was first introduced by Warfield (1974) and further developed by the Vanderbilt Columbus Laboratory in the U.S ISM is used to analyze the problems related to the complex system structure [46, 47]
Summary
With the acceleration of China’s urbanization process, the traditional cast-in-situ concrete construction method has low production efficiency, high consumption of raw materials, serious environmental pollution, long construction period, large building energy consumption. Through BN model learning and reasoning calculation, we can predict the probability of the occurrence of hidden cost, find out the key factors leading to the occurrence of hidden cost, which can effectively predict the hidden cost in advance It provides an effective and feasible new way to analyze and manage the hidden cost of prefabricated buildings. This study can reveal the internal logical relationship between the hidden cost factors of prefabricated buildings, and conduct real-time management analysis on the occurrence probability of hidden cost and the factors leading to the occurrence of hidden cost. In this way, the total project cost can be indirectly controlled. This is of great significance to the development of prefabricated construction industry and the cost management of practical projects
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