Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 26 Issue 3

Design re-use: critical application of healthcare building design evidence

Nadeeshani Wanigarathna, Fred Sherratt, Andrew Price, Simon Austin

The re-use of good design solutions is a key source of evidence and knowledge in the design of healthcare buildings. However, due to the unique nature of healthcare built…

Synchronicity of global construction cost indexes

Ruixi Zhang, Jinding Xing, Kunhui Ye, Weisheng Lu, Yongwei Shan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the features and tendency of cost indices in the global construction setting.

Client and contractor roles in schedule incentive/disincentive projects: An empirical study from India

Abid Hasan, Kumar Neeraj Jha

Delays in construction projects can be very expensive due to their adverse effects on project cost and profit margin. To overcome this problem, clients in the construction…

Effects of team diversity on project performance in construction projects

Guangdong Wu, Xianbo Zhao, Jian Zuo, George Zillante

The purpose of this paper is fourfold: first, to investigate the effect of team diversity on different types of conflicts; second, to determine if team diversity is significantly…

To insist or to concede? Contractors’ behavioural strategies when handling disputed claims

Lihan Zhang, Peter Fenn, Yongcheng Fu

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse factors that affect contractors’ behavioural strategies in resolving disputed claims.

Understanding clients’ experience of trust and distrust in dwelling fit-out projects: An ambivalence approach

Yan Ning, Minjie Feng, Jin Feng, Xiao Liu

Drawing upon the ambivalence literature, the purpose of this paper is to explore clients’ ambivalence caused by the co-existence of trust and distrust and to investigate how…

Validation of an agent-specific safety climate model for construction

Mohammad Tanvi Newaz, Peter Rex Davis, Marcus Jefferies, Manikam Pillay

Safety climate (SC) is considered a leading indicator of safety performance, but scholars suggest that a common SC assessment framework is yet to be developed. Following the…

Risk of excavators overturning: Determining horizontal centrifugal force when slewing freely suspended loads

David Edwards, Erika A. Parn, Michael C.P. Sing, Wellington Didibhuku Thwala

Tracked hydraulic excavators are versatile and ubiquitous items of off-highway plant and machinery that are utilised throughout the construction industry. Each year, a significant…

Mapping the knowledge domains of value management: a bibliometric approach

E.M.A.C. Ekanayake, Geoffrey Shen, Mohan M. Kumaraswamy

The purpose of this paper is to review the state-of-the-art of literature of value management (VM) and to map the VM domain to provide a launch pad for further knowledge…

A hybrid approach to optimize initial design strategies for pre-sale housing projects

Yi-Kai Juan, I-Chieh Lin, Ji-Xuan Tsai

The purpose of this paper is to propose a hybrid decision-making model for optimizing the initial design strategies of pre-sales housing, identifying factors affecting the initial…

Exploring the interactions among factors impeding the diffusion of prefabricated building technologies: Fuzzy cognitive maps

Xiao-Long Gan, Rui-Dong Chang, Craig Langston, Tao Wen

The purpose of this paper is to identify the interactions of factors impacting the widespread adoption of prefabricated building technologies and the intervention strategies to…

Barriers to BIM implementation strategies in China

Yijun Zhou, Yu Yang, Jyh-Bin Yang

Effective BIM application hinges on the development of appropriate strategies for its implementation. Though some strategies have been deployed to facilitate BIM implementation in…