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Knowledge-Driven ANP Approach to Vendors Evaluation for Sustainable Construction |
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| Authors: | Zhen Chen Heng Li Andrew Ross Malik M A Khalfan Stephen C W Kong |
| Affiliation: | 1Senior Lecturer, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores Univ., Liverpool L3 3AF, UK; Adjunct Professor, The Management School, Chongqing Jiaotong Univ., Chongqing 400074, China (corresponding author). E-mail: z.chen@ljmu.ac.uk 2Professor, Dept. of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong. E-mail: bshengli@polyu.edu.hk 3Principal Lecturer, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores Univ., Liverpool L3 3AF, UK. E-mail: a.d.ross@ljmu.ac.uk 4Research Fellow, SCRI Research Centre in Built and Human Environment (BuHu), Bridgewater Building, Univ. of Salford, Salford, Manchester M7 1NU, UK. E-mail: m.m.a.khalfan@salford.ac.uk 5Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Innovative Construction Engineering, Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK. E-mail: bscwkong@polyu.edu.hk |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a multicriteria decision-making approach to evaluate contractor candidates in the open competition of construction project procurement by means of a knowledge-framed analytic network process (KANP), which embeds a construction knowledge framework into a formal analytic network process procedure. An applied KANP model named KANP.BID is set up and used in an experimental case study. The paper concludes that the KANP.BID model is a viable and capable tool for selecting the most appropriate tender alternative under criteria of sustainable construction. It is expected that the proposed KANP.BID model can attract interest from both practitioners and researchers in terms of further research and development. |
| Keywords: | Bids Decision making Evaluation Procurement Sustainable development Construction management |