Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 26 Issue 8

Sensing and warning-based technology applications to improve occupational health and safety in the construction industry: A literature review

Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari, Heng Li, Johnny Kwok-Wai Wong, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Janet Xin Ge, JoonOh Seo, Arnold Yu Lok Wong

Sensing- and warning-based technologies are widely used in the construction industry for occupational health and safety (OHS) monitoring and management. A comprehensive…

Identifying the gaps in project success research: A mixed bibliographic and bibliometric analysis

Qinghua He, Ting Wang, Albert P.C. Chan, Hanzhang Li, Yangxue Chen

The purpose of this paper is to review the existing literature on project success in academic journals, specifically within the context of construction engineering and management…

Barriers in contractual scope management of international development projects in Afghanistan

Ahmadullah Hilali, Chotchai Charoenngam, Ankita Barman

For construction and management, the existing codes of practice of international organizations such as US Army Corps of Engineers, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, the…

Optimising maintenance cost by prioritising maintenance of facilities services in residential buildings

Cheong Peng Au-Yong, Shirley Jin Lin Chua, Azlan Shah Ali, Matthew Tucker

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the maintenance prioritising for facilities services in high-rise residential buildings in Peninsular Malaysia. Maintenance…

Learning from defects in the UK housing sector using action research: A case study of a housing association

Tony Hopkin, Shu-Ling Lu, Martin Sexton, Phil Rogers

Maximising the benefit of learning from defects is regarded by UK housing associations (HAs) as a key opportunity to meet their challenges of building more homes with reduced…

Evaluating critical success factors for implementing smart devices in the construction industry: An empirical study in the Dominican Republic

Manuel Alexander Silverio-Fernandez, Suresh Renukappa, Subashini Suresh

The decentralisation of information and high rate of mobile content access in the construction industry provides an ideal scenario for improvement of processes via the…

Durability of alumina silicate concrete based on slag/fly ash blends against corrosion

Gopalakrishnan Rajagopalan

The durability of concrete structures, especially built-in corrosive environments, starts to deteriorate after 20–30 years, even though they have been designed for more than 60…

A total energy efficiency evaluation framework based on embodied energy for the construction industry and the spatio-temporal evolution analysis

Jingxin Gao, Hong Ren, Xianrui Ma, Weiguang Cai, Qingwei Shi

As a typical resource energy-intensive industry, the scale of construction industry has been expanding rapidly owing to the large-scale urbanization and the economic booming in…

Analytical models towards explaining the difficulty in efficiently matching site concrete supply resources with placing crew needs

Michael Anson, Kai-Chi Thomas Ying, Ming-Fung Francis Siu

For parts of the time on a typical construction site concrete pour, the site placing crew is idle waiting for the arrival of the next truckmixer delivery, whereas for other…

An evaluation of the impact of risk cost on risk allocation in public private partnership projects

Khalid Almarri, Saleh Alzahrani, Halim Boussabaine

A unique aspect of PPP is the opportunity for the transfer of risk ownership to the private sector. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how risk cost influences risk…

A hybrid group decision model for green supplier selection: a case study of megaprojects

Ru Liang, Heap-Yih Chong

Green supplier selection is one of the crucial activities in green supply chain management. However, limited studies have addressed the vagueness and complexities during the…

Antecedents of the adoption of building information modeling technology in Korea

Eunil Park, Sang Jib Kwon, Jinyoung Han

Although the notable and significant role of building information modeling (BIM) technologies in construction industries has gained user attention, only few studies have been…

Scientometric analysis of BIM-based research in construction engineering and management

Ruoyu Jin, Yang Zou, Kassim Gidado, Phillip Ashton, Noel Painting

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the latest research of BIM adoption in construction engineering and management (CEM) and propose research directions for future scholarly…

Evaluating the preventability of conflicts arising from change occurrence in construction projects

Mohammad Hadi Charkhakan, Gholamreza Heravi

Although several studies have evaluated effective factors for conflict occurrence, researchers have developed few methods of determining preventive capacities and determining…

Construction sectors efficiency analysis on seven European countries

Kelly Patricia Murillo, Eugénio Rocha, Maria Fernanda Rodrigues

The purpose of this paper is to measure and compare the technical efficiency of construction companies in seven European countries: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland…

Normative and descriptive models for COBie implementation: discrepancies and limitations

Hamid Abdirad, Carrie S. Dossick

The purpose of this paper is to inquire into the reasons why Construction Operation Building Information Exchange (COBie) has not become mainstream across the construction…