Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 21 Issue 1

Managing the health risks of extreme weather events by managing hospital infrastructure

Martin Loosemore, Vivien Chow, Denny McGeorge

A predicted increase in climate change-related extreme weather events will present hospitals with new health-related and physical risks which were not originally anticipated in…

A case productivity model for automatic climbing system

Tarek Zayed, Elsayed Mohamed

Tight schedules in high-rise building construction force project managers to use the formwork even in a bad weather condition. Insufficient craning, which is typically the…

Improving construction management practice with the Last Planner System: a case study

Abdullah O. AlSehaimi, Patricia Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, Lauri Koskela

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing the Last Planner System (LPS) to improve construction planning practice and enhance site management in…

The health and safety impact of construction project features

Patrick Manu, Nii Ankrah, David Proverbs, Subashini Suresh

Despite the established significance of underlying accident causes to health and safety (H&S), and the persistent reporting of the underlying accident causal influence of…

Framework for enhanced progress tracking and control of linear projects

Tarek Hegazy, Mohamed Abdel-Monem, Dina Atef Saad

This paper aims at improving progress tracking and control of repetitive projects by developing a novel framework that automates the documentation of as-built information directly…

Causal ascription of rework in building and civil engineering projects: A multivariate exploration

Palaneeswaran Ekambaram, Peter E.D. Love, Mohan M. Kumaraswamy, Thomas S.T. Ng

Rework is an endemic problem in construction projects and has been identified as being a significant factor contributing cost and schedule overruns. Causal ascription is necessary…

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