Construction Schedule Risk Assessment and Management Strategy for Foreign General Contractors Working in the Ethiopian Construction Industry

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

• An excessive use of acronyms and abbreviations in the text makes it hard to read. It is recommended to add an abbreviation and acronym list or reduce their use to those that are strictly required.
• It is clearly explained that the ulilised data refers to the Ethiopian market. This concept, however, is repeated too many times. 
• the quality of the article would be improved by illustrating how a general methodology or tool could be derived from the Ethiopian case study

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

This study investigated the construction schedule risk assessment and management strategy for foreign general contractors, which is interesting. However, some comments need to be addressed before publication.

1 the contributions and innovation need to be presented clearly.

2 the literature review need to be enriched by citing more related references.

3 how did the authors select the seven experts?

4 Why did the authors use the ANN and GA model rather than other models?

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Reviewer 3 Report

The article is interesting but poorly presented. Both the introduction and the literature review require profound correction. The introduction should be short and to the point. Include a brief description and possible research goal and hypothesis. His present form is extremely strange. The same goes for the literature review. As the name says, there is to be a reference to world research on a similar subject. This has nothing to do with a literature review at present. Where did these tables with results (1-4) come from? Further shortcomings appear in the analytical part. I do not know how to understand formula No. 1 for the arithmetic mean.
The article requires formatting in accordance with the form. 
Better explain the novelty and significance of your findings. Consider providing deeper synthesis of your results, bring some new theoretical findings with higher level of generalization.

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Round 2

Reviewer 3 Report

Short and to the point.
Good Job.