Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 23 Issue 4

Implementing sustainability in small and medium-sized construction firms: The role of absorptive capacity

James Upstill-Goddard, Jacqui Glass, Andrew Dainty, Ian Nicholson

Construction organisations are becoming increasingly aware of the impacts of their operations, from both an environmental and, more recently, a social viewpoint. Sustainability…

Intra-organisational injustice in the construction industry

Martin Loosemore, Benson Teck-Heng Lim

Increasing workforce casualisation, under representation of women and other minority groups, racial discrimination, corruption and poor safety are just some of the documented…

Bilateral learning model in construction claim negotiations

Wenxue Lu, Lihan Zhang, Fan Bai

The learning ability on critical bargaining information contributes to accelerating construction claim negotiations in the win-win situation. The purpose of this paper is to study…

Competency-based measures for designing out construction waste: task and contextual attributes

Saheed O Ajayi, Lukumon O. Oyedele, Kabir O Kadiri, Olugbenga O Akinade, Muhammad Bilal, Hakeem A Owolabi, Hafiz A Alaka

Competency-based measure is increasingly evident as an effective approach to tailoring training and development for organisational change and development. With design stage widely…

A transaction costs-based model to choose PPP procurement procedures

Nunzia Carbonara, Nicola Costantino, Roberta Pellegrino

– The purpose of this paper is to develop a decision model for choosing the tendering procedure in PPP that minimizes the transaction costs borne by the public sector.

The impact of client characteristics on the time and cost performance of collaborative infrastructure projects

Karen Manley, Le Chen

Collaboration is thought to offer significant benefits over traditional contracts, however there is little existing research concerning how these benefits can be optimized. To…

Labour and skill shortages in Hong Kong’s construction industry

Paul H. K. Ho

With many large-scale infrastructural and residential projects in Hong Kong, the construction industry is suffering from serious labour and skill shortages. The purpose of this…

Editorial

Geoffrey Shen