Evaluation model design of project construction safety level based on bidirectional recurrent neural network (BiRNN) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM)

Abstract

Integrating deep learning methods for multi-element regression analysis poses a challenge in constructing safety evaluations for building construction. To address this challenge, this paper evaluates the integration of construction safety by quantitatively analyzing practitioners’ information and on-site construction conditions. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method quantifies construction safety capabilities, considering four key aspects: operators’ primary conditions, organizational personnel’s working conditions, on-site management conditions, and analysis of unsafe behaviors. A comprehensive set of 19 secondary causal factors is constructed. Furthermore, a hybrid model based on bidirectional recurrent neural network (BiRNN) and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM) is developed for construction safety evaluation, enhancing the model’s generalization ability by introducing the Dropout mechanism. Experimental results demonstrate that the fusion of BiRNN and BiLSTM methods outperforms traditional methods in construction safety evaluation, yielding mean squared error (MSE) and root mean squared error (RMSE) values of 0.48 and 0.69 and mean absolute error (MAE) and mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) values of 0.54 and 3.36%, respectively. The case study affirms that BiRNN-BiLSTM can accurately identify potential safety risks, providing reliable decision support for project management.

Keywords

• BiRNN
• BiLSTM
• Dropout
• Building construction
• AHP