The paper presents the authors’ research on the application of metaheuristic algorithms in Time Coupling Methods (TCM). The experimental analysis of algorithms: tabu search, genetic search, simulated annealing and B&B algorithm was conducted in the paper. The application of these algorithms, which are currently used to solve job scheduling problems, allows one to obtain better suboptimal solutions than with the currently used B&B algorithm. The main branch of the authors’ research is developing the methodology of construction works scheduling with the application of TCM 17,8,9 1013. The problems of scheduling linear construction works using time-cost optimisation are worked out.