Evaluation of Goal Programming for the Optimal Assignment of Inspectors to Construction Projects

摘要

The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate goal programming as a tool to assist the Chief of Construction Management (CM) assign inspectors to construction projects. Air Force construction projects represent a substantial investment. One way the CM can help insure construction projects are cost effective and high quality is through the efficient use of available resources - the abilities and time of his inspectors. Goal programming appeared to be an appropriate method to help assign inspectors so the CM could obtain the most value out of available inspector man-hours. The evaluation of the model involved developing a general model and applying it to a test organization. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was used to translate the preferences and judgements of the CM into a form suitable for a mathematical model. The test confirmed goal programming's ability to represent the inspector assignment problem. The AHP was found to be an appropriate way to translate the CM's desires into model inputs. Despite the success of the model's simulation efforts, a basic difference in the model and the actual decision process was highlighted during the test application. In practice, the CM is constrained to the assignments already made and would only make additional assignments as new projects begin. Keywords: Manpower utilization. (KR)