Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 24 Issue 1

Effects of a major disaster on skills shortages in the construction industry: Lessons learned from New Zealand

Yan Chang-Richards, Suzanne Wilkinson, Erica Seville, David Brunsdon

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effects of a major disaster on the management of human resources in the construction sector. It sets out to identify…

Predicting likelihood of cost overrun in educational projects

Richard Ohene Asiedu, Nana Kena Frempong, Hans Wilhelm Alfen

Being able to predict the likelihood of a project to overrun its cost before the contract signing phase is crucial in developing the required mitigating measures to avert it…

A multi-dimensional joint confidence limit approach to mixed mode planning for round-the-clock projects

Maryam Shahtaheri, Carl Thomas Haas, Tabassom Salimi

Good planning is key to good project performance. However, for the sub-class of round-the-clock projects requiring mixed mode planning a suitable planning approach does not exist…

A deterministic contractor selection decision support system for competitive bidding

Nabil Semaan, Michael Salem

The construction industry today is one of the biggest industries in the world. As projects continue to grow in complexity, project management continues to evolve. Contractor…

Making friends with Frankenstein: hybrid practice in BIM

Kathryn Davies, Dermott J. McMeel, Suzanne Wilkinson

Although the potential of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to generate process and performance improvement in the construction industry has been widely documented, very few…

Factors that influence Australian community buildings’ sustainable management

Pushpitha Kalutara, Guomin Zhang, Sujeeva Setunge, Ron Wakefield

Australia has a huge stock of community buildings built up over decades. Their replacements consume a large sum of money from country’s economy which has called for a strategy for…

Logistic regression analysis for factors influencing cost performance of design-bid-build and design-build projects

Wenxue Lu, YuanYuan Hua, SuJuan Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influencing factors of cost performance of design-bid-build (DBB) and design-build (DB) projects and comparing the differences of…

The role of justice for cooperation and contract’s moderating effect in construction dispute negotiation

Wenxue Lu, Zhi Li, Siqi Wang

Justice, although well developed in the organisational field, has not been given adequate attention in the area of construction project dispute negotiations. Based on previous…

Designers’ performance evaluation in construction projects

Sami Kärnä, Juha-Matti Junnonen

In a construction project, “participants’ satisfaction” is one of the main dimensions used for measuring the successfulness of a project. Designers perform a major role in…

Knowledge sharing maturity model for Jordanian construction sector

Mohammed Arif, Mohammed Al Zubi, Aman Deep Gupta, Charles Egbu, Robert O. Walton, Rubina Islam

The purpose of this paper is to present a maturity model developed to assess knowledge sharing (KS) for the Jordanian construction sector.