Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 25 Issue 4

Publisher’s note

Aimee Nixon

Improving contractor social networking on IBS infrastructure maintenance projects: a review

Zul-Atfi Bin Ismail

A key factor adversely affecting contractor social networking performance is the improper handling and information management of contractor’s services delivery on websites…

Causes of delays in construction industry and comparative delay analysis techniques with SCL protocol

Parvaneh Shahsavand, Akbar Marefat, Majid Parchamijalal

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the main causes of delays in the projects are from the client (relative importance index (RII)=0.716), labor and equipment (RII=0.701) and…

Building a rough sets-based prediction model for classifying large-scale construction projects based on sustainable success index

Saeed Akbari, Mostafa Khanzadi, Mohammad Reza Gholamian

To address requirements and specifications of construction project, academics need to build a project classification model. In recent years, project success concept, particularly…

Modeling of workers’ learning behavior in construction projects using agent-based approach: The case study of a steel structure project

Behzad Mahjoubpour, Farnad Nasirzadeh, Mahmoud Mohammad Hosein Zadeh Golabchi, Maryam Ramezani Khajehghiasi, Mostafa Mir

Learning as the way in which labor acquire new knowledge and skills has important strategic implications for the competitive advantage of an organization. The purpose of this…

A taxonomy of performance shaping factors for shield tunnel construction

Jue Li, Minghui Yu, Hongwei Wang

On shield tunnel construction (STC) site, human error is widely recognized as essential to accident. It is necessary to explain which factors lead to human error and how these…