Smart and Sustainable Built Environment: Volume 12 Issue 5

Assessing the role of respectable engagement in improving construction employee’s safety perception

Benjamin Baah, Alex Acheampong, Dickson Osei-Asibey, Aba Essanowa Afful

Employee unsafe behaviours and failure to adhere to safety standards resulting from poor safety perception among employees contribute to the high rate of accidents in the…

Emerging paradigm for land records in India

Rashi Gupta, Mona N. Shah, Satya N. Mandal

The purpose of this paper is to establish the importance of land records for urban development. The study focuses on how traditionally land records were managed and presently what…

A quantitative, evidence-based analysis of correlations between lean construction and building information modelling

Yusuf Arayici, Onur Behzat Tokdemir, Mohamad Kassem

This research aims to identify and measure the correlations between building information modelling (BIM) and lean construction (LC) principles at the design and construction…

PESTEL analysis of mental health management of project management practitioners (PMPs) in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) project organization

Bashir Tijani, Xiao-Hua Jin, Robert Osei-Kyei

Architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) project organizations are under constant pressure to improve the mental health of project management practitioners (PMPs) due to…

Intelligent passive room acoustic technology to satisfy acoustic design standards in classrooms

Megan Burfoot, Nicola Naismith, Ali GhaffarianHoseini, Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini

Informed by acoustic design standards, the built environments are designed with single reverberation times (RTs), a trade-off between long and short RTs needed for different space…

Development of 3D printers for concrete structures: mix proportion design approach and laboratory testing

Loan Thi Pham, Thu Nguyen, Thanh Trinh, Anh Nguyen, Quang Do, Bien Bui, Jianzhuang Xiao

This study deals with three major topics: (1) the developed generations of 3D concrete printers, (2) the mix design approach for cement-based materials and (3) laboratory testing.

A VR training scenario editor for operation in construction based on BIM 4D and domain expert authoring

Barbara Schiavi, Vincent Havard, Karim Beddiar, David Baudry

Virtual Reality (VR) based training is an efficient and promising digital tool. In the construction industry, studies have been conducted on the realisation of VR scenarios for…

The uptake of City Information Modelling (CIM): a comprehensive review of current implementations, challenges and future outlook

Hossein Omrany, Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini, Ali Ghaffarianhoseini, Derek John Clements-Croome

This paper critically analysed 195 articles with the objectives of providing a clear understanding of the current City Information Modelling (CIM) implementations, identifying the…

Design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) in architectural design meetings: from a case study to knowledge-to-action framework

Vikrom Laovisutthichai, Weisheng Lu

Design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) challenges architects in managing diverse knowledge across different professional domains. Little research, if any, has documented DfMA…

Digitalisation for whom: the determinants of residents' use of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana

Louis Kusi Frimpong, Stephen Leonard Mensah, Seth Asare Okyere, Matthew Abunyewah, Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Barnie Enning, Joshua Mawutor Attigah

There is an emerging digital turn in urban management in Africa, undergirded by efforts to address the challenges of rapid urbanisation. To ensure that this digitalisation agenda…

Construction planning through 4D BIM-based virtual reality for light steel framing building projects

Ali Rashidi, Wei Yin Yong, Duncan Maxwell, Yihai Fang

The construction industry has actively attempted to tackle the low-productivity issues arising from inefficient construction planning. It is imperative to understand how…

Investigating the future of model-based construction in the UK

Tara Brooks, Ryan Zantinge, Faris Elghaish

Although data rich building information models have been widely adopted in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry in the United Kingdom (UK), use of 2D…

Development and evaluation of cloud-based virtual reality for design evaluation: multicriteria comparative analysis

Daluch Sinoeurn, Kriengsak Panuwatwanich

The study aims to introduce a cloud-based virtual reality (VR) approach and investigate its applicability and performance in aiding the remote design evaluation process by…