DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE APPRAISAL OF COASTAL RESORT PROJECTS IN JEDDAH | ||
| JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences | ||
| Article 6, Volume 39, No 3, May and June 2011, Pages 549-564 PDF (596.18 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesaun.2011.127583 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohammad Abdul Rahman Kattan1; Mahmoud A. Taha2; Abdullah Mostafa Mohorjy3 | ||
| 1Project Director for Girls Faculties, King Abdul Aziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | ||
| 2Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department, Construction Management Program, King Abdul Aziz University, on leave from Structural Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt. | ||
| 3Professor of Water Resources & Environmental Engineering, King Abdul Aziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Project evaluation has to consider financial and environmental impacts including human, physical and ecological. Currently, the evaluation process in the city of Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), does not take all these impacts into consideration despite the issuance of the general environmental regulations in 2001 that necessitate the implementation of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies at the feasibility stage of projects, which might cause adverse effects on environment. The main objective of this research is to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) that integrates these impacts into one model to evaluate coastal resort projects along Red Sea coast at feasibility stage. The proposed system is composed of two main components, the environmental and the financial assessment. First, the system assesses the environmental impacts of the project using fuzzy logic technique by calculating the Decision Making Coefficient (DMC). The DMC value is compared to the baseline of the city of Jeddah, which is developed in this research. Those projects that have DMC values greater than the baseline of Jeddah, suitable mitigation measures should be proposed to eliminate their adverse environmental impacts. Second, the system evaluates financially the projects that have no adverse environmental impacts by calculating Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period (PBP), Profitability Index (PI), Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR), and Mitigation Cost/Project Cost (MC/PC). The system is validated using three existing coastal resort projects in the city of Jeddah. The validation results showed that the three case study projects were environmentally and financially feasible. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Environmental Impact Assessment; Financial Assessment; Uncertainty; Decision Support System | ||
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