Time-Cost-Quality Tradeoff Modeling based on Resource Allocation
Read this article. The paper presents an optimization model that enables managers to effectively evaluate trade-offs related to time, cost, and other competing priorities. Pay particular attention to Section 6 as it provides an illustrated example of building a home.
Decision Variables and Assumptions
Relationship between Material Quality and Material Cost
The time of a construction activity is mainly determined by its job quantities and productivities rather than its material or machine quality, and the material can hardly interfere with the activity's time, either. Thereafter an approximate linear relationship between material quality and material cost is determined.
The relationship between quality and quality cost for a manufacturing company
where actual quality level of construction material in activity (i),
minimum quality level of construction material in activity
maximum quality level of construction material in activity
;
cost of construction material in activity
maximum cost of construction material in activity