Implementation of Adjusted Fuzzy AHP Method in the Assessment for Reuse of Industrial Buildings

Dušan M. Milošević, Mimica R. Milošević and Dušan J. Simjanović
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Dušan M. Milošević: Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, Aleksandra Medvedeva 14, 18000 Niš, Serbia
Mimica R. Milošević: Faculty of Business Economics and Entrepreneurship, Mitropolita Petra 8, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Dušan J. Simjanović: Faculty of Information Technology, Metropolitan University, Tadeuša Košćuška 63, 11158 Belgrade, Serbia

Mathematics, 2020, vol. 8, issue 10, 1-24

Abstract: With rapid economic development and restructuring, the number of old or obsolete buildings is growing in large cities. Construction practice has actively focused in recent decades on the regeneration of brownfield areas and creating opportunities for their cost-effective and sustainable reuse. Some of the buildings could be identified as-built industrial heritage whose purpose could be modified and used differently. Adaptive reuse can make a major contribution to sustainable development by reducing construction waste and saving natural resources. In the reuse management process, the problem is how to deal with multiple criteria that are imposed as factors in assessing the reuse of a building. Using the adjusted fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP), we explore the potential for the adaptation and new use of industrial buildings in the former area of Electronic Industry Nis (EI Nis) in Serbia. The standard FAHP, in which we determine the weights of each sub-criterion based on the expert’s evaluation, we adjusted for use when no pairwise comparison of existing alternatives was available. Multiple criteria evaluation was performed by applying many criteria and sub-criteria, taking into account the different spatial and physical performance of buildings, as well as their locational indicators. A case study is used to demonstrate the application of the method and show its effectiveness.

Keywords: fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP); multi-criteria decision making (MCDM); industrial buildings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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