Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
8th International Project and Construction Management Conference (IPCMC2024), İstanbul, Türkiye, 6 - 08 Haziran 2024, ss.300-311
The increasing pace of climate change and urbanization has recently maximized the severity
and frequency of disasters. Natural disasters pose a serious threat to society by deteriorating
the societies’ physical, environmental, economic, and social wellness. Post-disaster
reconstruction projects are often deemed as key to relieving these stresses on the societies since
these projects are commenced rapidly after a disaster to replace damaged social and critical
infrastructures. Considering that post-disaster reconstruction projects are fast-tracked projects
that are undertaken in a dynamic and turbulent post-disaster environment, they become
vulnerable to a variety of risks stemming from the uncertainties. These risks should be identified
and assessed properly to avoid cost overruns and substantial delays in these projects.
Otherwise, full recovery of a community from a disaster can hardly be achieved. Examining the
existing literature, risks that exist in the post-disaster reconstruction projects have not been
identified and assessed, which, in turn, decision-makers are provided with limited knowledge
about the potential risks of these projects. Thus, this study aims to identify and assess the risks
that exist in post-disaster reconstruction projects. An in-depth literature review was initially
conducted to get deep insight into studies focusing on post-disaster reconstruction projects.
Next, the knowledge acquired during this literature review was used to synthesize risk factors
that may escalate in these projects. Following this, a questionnaire survey was conducted with
the participation of construction practitioners to assess the relative importance of the risks that
were identified through the literature review. Lastly, the fuzzy TOPSIS method was
implemented to analyze the collected data.