Building Site Selection of the Light Industry Plant Using AHP and GIS in NSDL Environment

Pak Kum Song; Choe Ryong Nam; Won Chang Son; Han Yong Gil; Thae Yong Il

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Building Site Selection of the Light Industry Plant Using AHP and GIS in NSDL Environment

Pak Kum Song, Choe Ryong Nam

, Won Chang Son

, Han Yong Gil^*

, Thae Yong Il

Published in American Journal of Construction and Building Materials (Volume 9, Issue 2)

Received: 12 August 2025 Accepted: 9 September 2025 Published: 12 November 2025

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Building site of the light industry plant should be selected with full consideration of land, electricity, water, transport, raw material supply and environment protection condition of the corresponding area, otherwise it may have a negative effect on the cost of product. Therefore, the optimal selection of building site is very important to the economic revival of enterprise. We have considered a plant building site selection with AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) and Geographic Information System (GIS) in NSDL environment. NSDL (Net-oriented System Language) is a complex system modeling tool, which has been developed by combining the advantages of Petri Net with Object-Oriented Programming Language VB (Visual Basic). AHP is a comparative assessment method using human sense, which models the influence of the criteria associated with decision making into a hierarchical structure and allow to choose the best among alternatives to be selected. AHP is widely used in various fields of economy, military, society, management, education, medicine, etc. Also, this method can deal with qualitative or quantitative data. Unlike the other AHP tools, the hierarchical structure models were made by Petri net diagram of NSDL, provides the automatic information link with the AHP module to improve the intuition, flexibility and convenience of decision making tools. In addition, using the object-oriented VB script language of NSDL with powerful integration ability, ArcGIS were combined to perform geographic information analysis to determine the optimal plant building site.

Published in	American Journal of Construction and Building Materials (Volume 9, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajcbm.20250902.13
Page(s)	53-62
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Analytic Hierarchy Process, Geographic Information System, Petri Net, Net-oriented System Description Language, Building Site Selection

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Song, P. K., Nam, C. R., Son, W. C., Gil, H. Y., Il, T. Y. (2025). Building Site Selection of the Light Industry Plant Using AHP and GIS in NSDL Environment. American Journal of Construction and Building Materials, 9(2), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajcbm.20250902.13

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Song, P. K.; Nam, C. R.; Son, W. C.; Gil, H. Y.; Il, T. Y. Building Site Selection of the Light Industry Plant Using AHP and GIS in NSDL Environment. Am. J. Constr. Build. Mater. 2025, 9(2), 53-62. doi: 10.11648/j.ajcbm.20250902.13

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Song PK, Nam CR, Son WC, Gil HY, Il TY. Building Site Selection of the Light Industry Plant Using AHP and GIS in NSDL Environment. Am J Constr Build Mater. 2025;9(2):53-62. doi: 10.11648/j.ajcbm.20250902.13

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Pak Kum Song

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Pyongyang, DPR Korea
Choe Ryong Nam

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Pyongyang, DPR Korea

http://orcid.org/0009-0000-2193-9349
Won Chang Son

Department of Industrial Administration, University of National Economy, Pyongyang, DPR Korea

http://orcid.org/0009-0001-7591-2085
Han Yong Gil

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Pyongyang, DPR Korea

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Thae Yong Il

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Kim Chaek University of Technology, Pyongyang, DPR Korea

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Song, P. K.; Nam, C. R.; Son, W. C.; Gil, H. Y.; Il, T. Y. Building Site Selection of the Light Industry Plant Using AHP and GIS in NSDL Environment. Am. J. Constr. Build. Mater. 2025, 9(2), 53-62. doi: 10.11648/j.ajcbm.20250902.13

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Song PK, Nam CR, Son WC, Gil HY, Il TY. Building Site Selection of the Light Industry Plant Using AHP and GIS in NSDL Environment. Am J Constr Build Mater. 2025;9(2):53-62. doi: 10.11648/j.ajcbm.20250902.13

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