Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 28 Issue 7

Adoption and implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): a review and conceptualization

Abdullahi B. Saka, Daniel W.M. Chan

Despite the SMEs representing a large percentage of firms in the construction industry, there has been an under-representation of SMEs’ perspective in BIM research studies. This…

Identifying critical factors influencing the safety of Chinese subway construction projects

Shang Zhang, Riza Yosia Sunindijo, Martin Loosemore, Shejiang Wang, Yajun Gu, Hongfei Li

The image of the construction industry in China, as in many other countries, is tarnished by its poor safety record. With the rapid development of subway systems in Chinese urban…

A risk-oriented tender evaluation system for construction projects in Malaysia

Mohd Razali Ismail, Ming Sun, Graeme Bowles

This paper presents results of an empirical investigation involving private construction clients in Malaysia, which seeks to establish appropriate tender evaluation criteria and…

Optimising social procurement policy outcomes through cross-sector collaboration in the Australian construction industry

Martin Loosemore, George Denny-Smith, Jo Barraket, Robyn Keast, Daniel Chamberlain, Kristy Muir, Abigail Powell, Dave Higgon, Jo Osborne

Social procurement policies are an emerging policy instrument being used by governments around the world to leverage infrastructure and construction spending to address…

Integrating a rich picture diagram and causal loop diagram to model stakeholder engagement in building refurbishment projects

Yuri Seki, Monty Sutrisna, Ayokunle Olubunmi Olanipekun

The more contemporary views on managing projects recommend stakeholder engagement as an important part of the process. Challenges have been reported when attempting to involve…

A cartography of delay risks in the Australian construction industry: impact, correlations and timing

Hossein Derakhshanfar, J. Jorge Ochoa, Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, Wolfgang Mayer, Craig Langston

The purpose of this research is to identify the most impactful delay risks in Australian construction projects, including the associations amongst those risks as well as the…

Time-cost-quality-environmental impact trade-off resource-constrained project scheduling problem with DEA approach

Sayyid Ali Banihashemi, Mohammad Khalilzadeh

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate project activities' efficiency in different execution modes for the optimization of time–cost-quality and environmental impacts trade-off…

A qualitative approach to investigate emergency preparedness state for the built environment in the UAE

Hamdan Rashid Alteneiji, Vian Ahmed, Sara Saboor

Emergency preparedness (EP) is one of the crucial phases of the disaster management cycle for the built environment. The body of knowledge, therefore, reports on different…

Productivity estimation of cutter suction dredger operation through data mining and learning from real-time big data

Jiake Fu, Huijing Tian, Lingguang Song, Mingchao Li, Shuo Bai, Qiubing Ren

This paper presents a new approach of productivity estimation of cutter suction dredger operation through data mining and learning from real-time big data.

An evolutionary game analysis of user-pay public–private partnership projects

Danrong Song, Jinbo Song, Hehui Yuan, Yu Fan

With the growing demand for infrastructure and public services in recent years, PPP-UP have attracted a great deal of attention. However, while the user focuses on the payment for…