Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 22 Issue 6

Climate and construction delays: case study in Chile

Pablo Ballesteros-Pérez, Maria Luisa del Campo-Hitschfeld, Manuel Alejandro González-Naranjo, Mari Carmen González-Cruz

Construction projects usually suffer delays, and the causes of these delays and its cost overruns have been widely discussed, the weather being one of the most recurrent. The…

Risk factors affecting practitioners’ attitudes toward the implementation of an industrialized building system: A case study from China

Li-zi Luo, Chao Mao, Li-yin Shen, Zheng-dao Li

An industrialized building system (IBS) is regarded as an effective residential building system that provides several benefits, including high quality, low cost, short time, good…

Modelling marketing resources, procurement process coordination and firm performance in the Malaysian building construction industry

Akmal Aini Othman, Sofiah Abd Rahman, Veera Pandiyan KalIani Sundram, Muhammad Awais Bhatti

The purpose of this paper is to establish a link between marketing resources, procurement process coordination (PPC) and firm performance. To allow for greater understanding in…

Barriers to public private partnership projects in developing countries: A case of Nigeria

Solomon Olusola Babatunde, Srinath Perera, Lei Zhou, Chika Udeaja

Studies on barriers to public private partnerships (PPPs) in Nigeria, especially those that are empirical, remain rare. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify and classify…

Relationships between top managers’ leadership and infrastructure sustainability: A Chinese urbanization perspective

Junna Meng, Bin Xue, Bingsheng Liu, Ning Fang

Top managers who possess outstanding leadership competence make significant contributions toward achieving project success. The relationship between the top managers’ leadership…

Development of waste occurrence level indicator in Vietnam construction industry

Ha Duy Khanh, Soo Yong Kim

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the waste occurrence level in the construction industry. It includes: first, identifying the mean value of frequency of waste occurrence…

Key factors for the BIM adoption by architects: a China study

Zhikun Ding, Jian Zuo, Jinchuang Wu, JY Wang

There has been a growing attention to building information modeling (BIM) globally due to its benefits to various stages of a building’s life cycle. To facilitate the…

Essential features of a building services standard method of measurement in Malaysia

Ganiyu Amuda-Yusuf, Sarajul Fikri Mohamed

The purpose of this paper is to examine the need to develop building service standard method of measurement (BSSMM) that would provide a home ground advantage and a framework for…

Significant risk factors associated with facilities management (FM) outsourcing: A study on Nigeria’s public hospitals

Dubem I. Ikediashi, Stephen O. Ogunlana

The purpose of this paper is to extend the body of knowledge on healthcare facilities management (FM) by investigating the risks associated with outsourcing of FM services in…

Editorial

Geoffrey Qiping Shen