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Research Article

Evaluation of factors affecting the quality of luxury residential buildings using the fuzzy BWM method

Marziyeh Sadat Moayeri, Seyed Azim Hosseini*, Mehdi Nani, Hamidreza Rabieifar and Jafar Asadpour

Published: 13 April, 2023 | Volume 7 - Issue 1 | Pages: 007-013

The construction sector consists of a collection of activities related to buildings and engineering constructions of all kinds. It is the close relationship between this sectors with other economic sectors, which distinguishes it. Therefore, it is an important indicator of the movement of the national economy, but this sector faces major risks, especially in the construction of luxury residential buildings, and these risks may affect the implementation of the project and may lead to increase costs, affect the quality and sometimes delay delivery. This study was carried out to evaluate the factors affecting the quality of luxury residential buildings in Iran using the fuzzy best-worst method (fuzzy BWM). The BWM method provides a consistent structural comparison of factors through best and worst criteria. And this method extended using a fuzzy set to address the ambiguity from the decision-maker’s judgment. The evaluation consists of five criteria: Strength and stability, physical comfort and mental peace, visual proportions and beauty, safety, security and environment, and welfare and health. To determine the fuzzy criteria’ weights, the nonlinearly constrained optimization problem was applied. The result indicated that the best and the worst criteria were Visual proportions and beauty and welfare and health.

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Keywords:

Quality; Prioritization; Luxury residential buildings; Fuzzy BWM method

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