Analysis of Design-Build Contracts Utilising Machine Learning on the Axis of Time, Cost and Quality
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2025
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In construction projects, contract management processes necessitate achieving a delicate equilibrium among time, cost, and quality. This work aims to analyse Design-Build standard construction contract texts by the application of machine learning (ML) methodologies to attain a more effective equilibrium among these three essential factors, hence enhancing the decision support process in contract management. The suggested model offers comprehensive predictions regarding time, cost, and quality in the management and risk assessment of construction projects where conventional methods are inadequate. A classification model employing text mining and ML algorithms is proposed in the study. The standard contract clauses of the FIDIC Conditions of Contract for Design, Build and Operate, as well as the JCT Design and Build Contract, have been analysed. In the realm of text mining, natural language processing (NLP) methodologies, including Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF), Word2Vec (Continous Bag-of-Words (CBOW) and Skip-Gram), and Bag-of-Words (BoW), have been employed. Various ML algorithms, including Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees (DT), and Ensemble Learning (EL) techniques (XGBoost), have been employed to evaluate the efficacy of various text representation techniques. The models' performance was evaluated using 70%-30% and 80%-20% training-test data splits. The study concluded that the integration of the Skip-Gram approach with the XGBoost model yielded the highest accuracy (Acc) and F1 scores. In the 80%-20% train-test split, the F1 score was recorded at 0.8858 and the Acc at 0.8779, highlighting the significance of capturing contextual information. The primary constraint of the study is the inability to make a precise separation in the dataset, since the time and cost aspects in contract texts frequently overlap. This circumstance has led the model to erroneously categorise certain words into both the cost and time classifications, hence diminishing accuracy rates. The variety of legal and technical terminology in contracts has hindered the model's ability to appropriately evaluate some expressions. The results demonstrate that ML provides a novel approach to analysing construction contracts and has the capacity to enhance decision-making in contract management and negotiations. The model presented in this paper provides a framework for the more efficient management of time, cost, and quality factors.
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İnşaat Mühendisliği, Bilgisayar Bilimleri, Yapay Zeka
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Düzce Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi
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