Construction Project Risk Factors Ranking based on Uncertain Linguistic Variable 

Guangfeng LIU 

School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, CHINA 

Abstract: According to linguistic description in construction project risk factors ranking problem, uncertain linguistic variable is used to quantify these natural language. The construction project risk factors ranking model is proposed based on uncertain linguistic variable and C-OWA operator to predict main risk factors. Finally, an illustrative example shows the feasibility of the proposed method. 

Keywords: Construction project, risk factors ranking , uncertain linguistic variable, C-OWA operator