Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 29 Issue 6

Project scheduling and performance prediction: a fuzzy-Bayesian network approach

Pejman Rezakhani

Despite the extensive research in project risk management and availability of several techniques and tools, quantifying uncertainty in project schedules remains a challenge…

Defining social value in the public procurement process for works

Brandsford Kwame Gidigah, Kofi Agyekum, Bernard K. Baiden

Though the Public Procurement Act of Ghana makes room for specific socio-economic policies (environmental, social, economic and other policies which are intended to promote social…

Exploring the critical waste factors affecting construction projects

Mohamed Saad Bajjou, Anas Chafi

Waste is typically encountered during the building's life cycle, from the design phase, through the construction phase, to modification and demolition. Most of these construction…

Regional differences and driving factors of construction and demolition waste generation in China

Zhenshuang Wang, Wanchen Xie, Jingkuang Liu

The growth of the Chinese economy has resulted in a significant increase in construction and demolition waste (CDW), and regional differences in CDW generation are gradually…

Mixed qualitative–quantitative approach for bidding decisions in construction

Emad Mohamed, Parinaz Jafari, Ahmed Hammad

The bid/no-bid decision is critical to the success of construction contractors. The factors affecting the bid/no-bid decision are either qualitative or quantitative. Previous…

A fuzzy synthetic evaluation of vulnerabilities affecting supply chain resilience of industrialized construction in Hong Kong

E.M.A.C. Ekanayake, Geoffrey Shen, Mohan Kumaraswamy, Emmanuel Kingsford Owusu

Demands for Industrialized Construction (IC) have intensified with growing construction industry imperatives to (A) boost performance; (B) reduce reliance on “in-situ and on-site”…

Formalizing knowledge representation in earthwork operations through development of domain ontology

Alhusain Taher, Faridaddin Vahdatikhaki, Amin Hammad

This study proposes a framework for Earthwork Ontology (EW-Onto) to support and enhance data exchange in the project and the efficient decision-making in the planning and…

Assessing the expected current and future competencies of quantity surveyors in the Malaysian built environment

Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap, Martin Skitmore, Yi Wen Lim, Siaw-Chuing Loo, Jason Gray

Quantity surveying is a profession that blends engineering, construction and economics. To be competent is to have the ability to apply the set of related knowledge, skills and…

Social sustainability in Public–Private Partnership projects: case study of the Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney

Kun Wang, Yongjian Ke, Tingting Liu, Shankar Sankaran

The purpose of this paper is to present evidence to the heated debate “whether Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model should be introduced into the hospitals” and, if so, how to…

Inflation rate and labours’ wages in construction projects: economic relation investigation

Muhammad Ali Musarat, Wesam Salah Alaloul, M.S. Liew

Labours are one of the key resources of construction projects having a significant impact on economic development. With time, the construction industry is getting a boom due to…

Failure factors–a comparative study of private and government construction firms

Yogeshwar V. Navandar, Chintaman Bari, P. G. Gaikwad

The purpose of the present study is to examine the failure factors for the construction firms in a developing nation. Furthermore, the comparison of failure factors for private…

Enhancing users involvement in architectural design using mobile augmented reality

Bassam Shouman, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman, Mohamed Marzouk

Mobile augmented reality (MAR) is one of the advanced three-dimensional (3D) representation tools that has been recently utilized in the construction industry. This paper aims to…

Empirically validating five propositions regarding 3D visualizations for subsurface utility projects

Mechiel van Manen, Léon olde Scholtenhuis, Hans Voordijk

This study aims to empirically validate five propositions about the benefits of three-dimensional (3D) visualizations for the management of subsurface utility projects…

A systematic review of factors influencing the implementation of health promotion programs in the construction industry

Tamara Fuller, Abid Hasan, Imriyas Kamardeen

The construction industry has a poor reputation for an unhealthy lifestyle and a high prevalence of health problems such as obesity, stress and hypertension among construction…