International Journal of Engineering and Technology

The purpose of this study was to evaluate cost and time reduction strategies in construction projects using fuzzy TOPSIS method. The information required for the research was obtained by a questionnaire. The target population was engineers working on construction projects, other managers and officials who were selected using a combination of both targeted non-probability and judgmental snowball sampling. In the first stage, the sample size consisted of 108 community members who were available to evaluate the importance and status of the variables in the construction projects and in the second stage, according to the selection of 10 experts from the 108 respondents who were selected. In terms of experience and competency, the research subjects had higher priority than others to evaluate and rank the projects. This research was a developmental-applied research and a survey method. The results of the data analysis showed that Tajrish hospital had the highest weight of 0.3935, as the operating conditions were better than other projects and experts confirmed this. Subjects have been obtained as well as the ideal positive distance and the negative ideal distance for each of the options. According to the experts, identified factors have great effects on reducing the time and cost of construction projects. It is suggested to implement them in different organizations and projects in terms of type of activity in order to control the time and cost in any project.