Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 26 Issue 1

Economic sustainability of buildings: Assessment of economic performance and sustainability index

Domingos António Ribas, Paulo Cachim

The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative approach for the development of a methodology to systematically assess the economic performance and for the assessment of the…

Environmental design and awareness impact on organization image

Deepak Bangwal, Prakash Tiwari

The purpose of this paper is to examine how environmental design features of a green building contribute to the formation of employees’ organization image (OIM) through better…

Driving forces influencing the uptake of sustainable housing in New Zealand

Xintong Li, Yisheng Liu, S. Wilkinson, Tingting Liu

Sustainable houses remain at a low rate among the housing stock in New Zealand. Government, industry and the public are wanting to deliver homes that are energy and water…

Alternate beeline diagramming method network analysis for interdependent design entities

Purva Mujumdar, J. Uma Maheswari

The design phase is generally characterized with two-way multiple information exchanges/overlaps between the interdependent entities. In this paper, entity is a generic term to…

Building maintenance management activities in a public institution

Gabriela Alves Tenório de Morais, Alberto Casado Lordsleem Júnior

The purpose of this paper is to present a case study about the diagnosis perform of the building maintenance process in a Brazilian Government public institution.

Restructuration of architectural practice in integrated project delivery (IPD): two case studies

Hamid Abdirad, Carrie S. Dossick

The purpose of this paper is to clarify that while integrated project delivery (IPD) methods can be momenta for restructuring architectural practice, they do not predetermine…

Maximizing expected contractor profit using an integrated model

S.M. Reza Alavipour, David Arditi

Planning for increased contractor profits should start at the time the contract is signed because low profits and lack of profitability are the primary causes of contractor…

Developing a benchmarking system for architecture design firms

José Luis Salvatierra, Miguel Ángel Gálvez, Freddy Bastías, Tito Castillo, Rodrigo Fernando Herrera, Luis Fernando Alarcón

The construction industry’s business model is mainly based on the interaction among the architecture office, the engineering office and the construction company. The performance…