Construction duration prediction for ultra-high-rise buildings using PCA and an improved sparrow-search–optimized BPNN
摘要
Construction duration prediction is crucial for the early-stage planning of ultra-high-rise building (UHRB) projects, but its accuracy is often limited by high-dimensional, strongly correlated, and mixed-type engineering features. To overcome these issues, this study develops a hybrid PCA-ISSA-BPNN framework that combines principal component analysis (PCA), an improved sparrow search algorithm enhanced with grey wolf optimization (ISSA), and a back-propagation neural network (BPNN). PCA is used to reduce multicollinearity and redundancy in the quantitative variables, while ISSA performs global hyperparameter optimization for the BPNN. Based on 87 UHRB projects and five-fold cross-validation, the proposed model achieved the best predictive performance among all compared methods, with