  Tower cranes are major and expensive equipment that are extensively used at
building construction projects and harbors for lifting heavy objects to demand
points. The tower crane locating problem to position a tower crane and supply
points in a building construction site for supplying all requests in minimum
time, has been raised from more than twenty years ago. This problem has already
been solved by linear programming, but meta-heuristic methods spend less time
to solving the problem. Hence, in this paper three newly developed
meta-heuristic algorithms called CBO, ECBO, and VPS have been used to solve the
tower crane locating problem. Three scenarios are studied to show the
applicability and performance of these meta-heuristics.
