In this article, a hybrid decision making method is used to prioritize construction project portfolio by considering sustainability criteria. First, Lexicographic method is applied to weight the sustainability criteria. | A hybrid lexicographic and VIKOR approach for prioritizing construction projects by considering sustainable development criteria Journal of Project Management 3 2018 131 142 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage A hybrid lexicographic and VIKOR approach for prioritizing construction projects by considering sustainable development criteria Zahra Jalilibala Ali Bozorgi-Amirib and Ramezan Khosravic a Master of Science School of Industrial Engineering College of Engineering University of Tehran Tehran Iran b Assistant Professor School of Industrial Engineering College of Engineering University of Tehran Tehran Iran c PhD student Department of Industrial Engineering University of Yazd Yazd Iran CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Nowadays one of the challenges in the organizations according to budget limitations in the Received November 5 2017 companies is how to prioritize their project portfolios in the events of their strategies. In other Received in revised format Feb- words organizations are seeking to allocate resources in order to gain the maximum profit ac- ruary 20 2017 cording to budget limitations. In this article a hybrid decision making method is used to priori- Accepted March 10 2018 Available online tize construction project portfolio by considering sustainability criteria. First Lexicographic March 10 2018 method is applied to weight the sustainability criteria. Then by considering the weights derived Keywords from the Lexicographic and sustainability criteria projects are prioritized based on VIKOR Prioritizing method. The proposed method of this study is applied for a case study of projects in the refinery Lexicographic scope. VIKOR Sustainability criteria 2018 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction Nowadays one of the major challenges of the organizations in regard to their budget limitations is to decide how to prioritize the project portfolio according to .
