Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 25 Issue 8

Quality cost of material procurement in construction projects

Rema Sawan, Jwen Fai Low, Andrea Schiffauerova

Material procurement constitutes a large share of the overall cost of construction projects. Understanding the factors influencing the cost of quality (COQ) in the procurement…

BIM coordinators: a review

Mattias Jacobsson, Christoph Merschbrock

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role, practices and responsibilities of building information modeling (BIM) coordinators (BCs).

Phase-based analysis of key cost and schedule performance causes and preventive strategies: Research trends and implications

Mohammadreza Habibi, Sharareh Kermanshachi

It is estimated that more than half of the construction industry’s projects encounter significant cost overruns and major delays, resulting in the industry having a tarnished…

A framework for ad hoc information management for the building design process

Jeevan Jacob, Koshy Varghese

The building design processes today are complex, involving many disciplines and issues like collaboration, concurrency and collocation. Several studies have focused on…

Strategy management of construction workspaces by conflict resolution algorithm and visualization model

Mohammad Rohani, Gholamali Shafabakhsh, Abdolhosein Haddad, Ehsan Asnaashari

The spatial conflicts and congestion of construction resources are challenges that lead to the reduction in efficiency. The purpose of this paper is to enable users to detect and…

An investigation of modern building equipment technology adoption in the Australian construction industry

Samad M.E. Sepasgozar, Steven Davis, Martin Loosemore, Leonhard Bernold

Research into the construction industry’s adoption of modern equipment technologies, such as remote-controlled trucks, excavators and drones, has been neglected in comparison to…

Reducing construction material cost by optimizing buy-in decision that accounts the flexibility of non-critical activities

Junna Meng, Jinghong Yan, Bin Xue, Jing Fu, Ning He

The goal of making buy-in decisions is to purchase materials at the right time with the required quantity and a minimum material cost (MC). To help achieve this goal, the purpose…