Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 26 Issue 11

Guest editorial: Coping with the complexity of safety, health, and well-being in construction

Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, Dayana Bastos Costa, Fidelis Emuze, Michael Behm

Managing “a little bit unsafe”: complexity, construction safety and situational self-organising

Fred Sherratt, Chris Ivory

The purpose of this paper is to unpack the shared understandings of safety held by workers on large UK construction sites using a complexity lens, and so provide empirical support…

Women in construction: shortcomings, difficulties, and good practices

Marcela Ferreira Regis, Elaine Pinto Varela Alberte, Daniele dos Santos Lima, Rosana Leal Simões Freitas

On average, only 10 percent workers at construction sites are women. This percentage, however, is not due to a lack of interest or capacity, but to discrimination against women…

Complexity of women’s modern-day challenges in construction

Emmanuel Aboagye-Nimo, Hannah Wood, Jodie Collison

Although the UK construction sector has enjoyed a significant rise in the number of women joining the industry, there is undoubtedly more room for improvement. Numerous schemes…

Framing stress and associated behaviours at work: An ethnography study in the United Kingdom

Paul Hampton, Ezekiel A. Chinyio, Silvia Riva

The purpose of this paper is to understand more precisely the culture and interpersonal behaviours associated with stress.

Managing production pressures through dangerous informality: a case study

David Oswald, Fred Sherratt, Simon Smith

It is well-known that significant production pressures exist on many construction projects and previous studies have suggested that this pressure is a contributory factor in…

Developing a knowledge-based safety culture instrument for construction industry: Reliability and validity assessment in Indian context

Deepak M.D., Gangadhar Mahesh

Harnessing the power of knowledge management is important for minimizing accidents occurring at construction projects. Yet, knowledge management is a neglected dimension when…

Design for occupational safety and health: key attributes for organisational capability

Patrick Manu, Anush Poghosyan, Abdul-Majeed Mahamadu, Lamine Mahdjoubi, Alistair Gibb, Michael Behm, Olugbenga O. Akinade

Against the backdrop of the contribution of design to the occurrence of occupational injuries and illnesses in construction, design for occupational safety and health (DfOSH) is…

Using 4D BIM to assess construction risks during the design phase

Ziyu Jin, John Gambatese, Ding Liu, Vineeth Dharmapalan

The prevention through design (PtD) concept has been widely recognized as one of the most effective approaches to eliminate or reduce construction site hazards. It encourages…

Influential safety technology adoption predictors in construction

Chukwuma Nnaji, John Gambatese, Ali Karakhan, Chinweike Eseonu

Existing literature suggests that construction worker safety could be optimized using emerging technologies. However, the application of safety technologies in the construction…

Building information modelling (BIM) and the CDM regulations interoperability framework

Dingayo Mzyece, Issaka E. Ndekugri, Nii A. Ankrah

Building information modelling (BIM) has received wide coverage within the research, academic and industry communities over the last decade. Yet, its degree of integration with…

Integrating resilience engineering and UAS technology into construction safety planning and control

Roseneia Rodrigues Santos de Melo, Dayana Bastos Costa

The purpose of this paper is to present an exploratory study in order to understand the contributions of the resilience engineering (RE) concept and the use of unmanned aerial…