Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 22 Issue 1

Risk perception and propensity in bid/no-bid decision-making of construction projects

Yong Qiang Chen, Su Juan Zhang, Li Sha Liu, Jia Hu

Making the right bid/no-bid decision is critical to the success and development of construction contracting enterprises. Decision makers’ personal characteristics, such as risk…

Linking employee empowerment with productivity in off-site construction

Faisal Alazzaz, Andrew Whyte

The purpose of this paper is to address current knowledge gaps in off-site sub-element fabrication efficiency factors, by identifying an explicit relationship between productivity…

Valuing innovation in construction and infrastructure: Getting clients past a lowest price mentality

Martin Loosemore, Justin Richard

The purpose of this paper is to continue the discussion about the actual and potential role of clients in driving more innovation in the construction sector through interviews…

Statutory adjudication in Western Australia: adjudicators’ views

Ping Yung, Kieran Rafferty

– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of the statutory adjudication legislation in Western Australia against its stated aims.

Strategies for improving energy saving behaviour in commercial buildings in Malaysia

Nurul Sakina Mokhtar Azizi, Suzanne Wilkinson, Elizabeth Fassman

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the level of energy saving behaviour between green and conventional office buildings in Malaysia to determine if people in green…

Risk management implementation in small and medium enterprises in the UK construction industry

Ali Rostami, James Sommerville, Ing Liang Wong, Cynthia Lee

The competition and challenges facing construction firms during the recent recession have brought risk management (RM) to the fore in people’s minds. Examination of the…

The relationship between pre-construction decision-making and the effectiveness of risk control: Testing the time-safety influence curve

Helen Lingard, Lance Saunders, Payam Pirzadeh, Nick Blismas, Brian Kleiner, Ron Wakefield

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the timing with which decisions are made about how to control work health and safety (WHS) risks in construction…