Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 13 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Social value of infrastructure projects: design, construction and global practices

Hemanta Doloi, Peter Raisbeck

Analysing value creation in social housing construction in remote communities – application to Nunavik (Canada)

José Luis Suárez, Louis Gosselin, Nadia Lehoux

Remote and isolated indigenous communities in Nunavik (Canada) currently face a number of housing related challenges. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to identify the…

Beyond design and delivery: developing a model to measure end-user satisfaction (delight) in projects

Muath Abu Arqoub, Amir Naser Ghanbaripour, Craig Langston, Greg Skulmoski

This research aims to develop and test a model for measuring end-user satisfaction (EUS) in a practical manner and then statistically verify its reliability and validity.

Exploring social value and their enablers as business models for sustainable water supply projects

Omoleye Ojuri, Grant R.W. Mills, Alex Opoku

This work aims to understand how social value is created and delivered using community-based water supply projects. It examines social value creation given the enabling concepts  

Exploring the application of BIM in Tanzanian public sector projects using social network analysis

Abdullatif Abdallah, Hemanta Doloi, Dominik Holzer

The present study employs social network analysis (SNA) to demonstrate the extent to which various building information modeling (BIM) functions can be used to address significant…

Ex-post impact evaluation of PPP projects from multiple stakeholder perspectives: a toll road case

Jose Oliveros-Romero, Ajibade A. Aibinu

This study aims to develop an ex-post impact evaluation method for public-private partnership projects (PPP) that addresses one of its main difficulties: the multiplicity of…

Sustainable construction practice in Nigeria: barriers and strategies for improvement

Oluwaseun Enoch Akindele, Saheed Ajayi, Luqman Toriola-Coker, Adekunle Sabitu Oyegoke, Hafiz Alaka, Sambo Lyson Zulu

Amidst all solutions posited to address sustainable construction practices in Nigeria, the implementation plans are repudiated by sustainable barriers. This study examines and…

The hidden barriers to social value delivery in megaprojects: investigating the decision-making environment

Jessica Siva, Thayaparan Gajendran

Megaprojects are seen as vehicles for delivering significant social value. However, megaproject decision-making, which is deeply embedded in networks comprising formal and…