Abstract
The aim of this research is to develop a systematic approach to identify and prioritize the most influencing factors on labor productivity in a construction project, with respect to their interrelations, and also investigate different scenarios which can affect it. In the first step, factors influencing construction labor productivity were identified through reviewing previous researches. Applying a group of experts, the most important factors were then determined using their relative importance index in the second step. In the third step, the interrelations among factors were determined through several sessions and interviewing those experts. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed methodology is proved by implementing in a real high rise building construction project. In this step, the selected factors from previous steps were used subsequently for analyzing their impact on labor productivity through fuzzy fault tree analysis. The probability of occurrence of events was determined according to the opinions of four members of the project management team who involved in that project. The most critical causes were also identified using importance analysis. It is believed that using the proposed methodology, appropriate response strategies could be adopted against the identified critical events to enhance the overall productivity of a construction project.
Highlights
The construction sector plays a strategic role in the economic structure of any country (Durdyev & Ismail, 2017; Durdyev, Zavadskas, Thurnell, Banaitis, & Ihtiyar, 2018; Alkay, Watkins, & Keskin, 2018; Ma, Liu, & Reed, 2017)
In this research a fuzzy fault tree based approach was proposed for modeling and identifying various factors influencing on labor productivity in a particular project, with respect to their interrelations
Causes of reduction in labor productivity were identified through reviewing previous research
Summary
The construction sector plays a strategic role in the economic structure of any country (Durdyev & Ismail, 2017; Durdyev, Zavadskas, Thurnell, Banaitis, & Ihtiyar, 2018; Alkay, Watkins, & Keskin, 2018; Ma, Liu, & Reed, 2017). It attracts a large amount of investments from both public and private sectors. The first measure of productivity is the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) This measure has direct relation with total output and reverse relation with the summation of inputs.
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