Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 31 Issue 3

Organizational antecedents and multiple paths of knowledge-sharing behavior of construction project members: evidence from Chinese construction enterprises

Fan Cheng, Yilin Yin

Lack of knowledge-sharing behavior (KSB) among construction project members hinders propagation of expertise, working methods, and lessons learned within an organization, and…

Pose estimation method for construction machine based on improved AlphaPose model

Jiayue Zhao, Yunzhong Cao, Yuanzhi Xiang

The safety management of construction machines is of primary importance. Considering that traditional construction machine safety monitoring and evaluation methods cannot adapt to…

Drivers of mentoring practices in construction related firms: Nigerian quantity surveying firms' perspective

Osamudiamen Kenneth Otasowie, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke

The paper assessed the required drivers of mentoring practices in construction-related firms: a perspective of the quantity surveying (QS) firms in Nigeria with a view to…

An integrated method of automated layout design and optimization for modular construction

Zihao Zheng, Yuanqi Li, Jaume Torres

This paper aims to propose a generative design method combined with meta-heuristic algorithm for automating and optimizing the floor layout of modular buildings using typical…

Determinants of cloud computing deployment in South African construction organisations using structural equation modelling and machine learning technique

Douglas Aghimien, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, Daniel W.M. Chan, Emmanuel Imuetinyan Aghimien

This paper presents the findings from the assessment of the determinants of cloud computing (CC) deployment by construction organisations. Using the…

Differential effects of contextual factors on promotive and prohibitive voice in construction projects: a multiteam system perspective

Ding Wang, Jianyao Jia, Shan Jiang, Tianyi Liu, Guofeng Ma

Despite the documented benefits of voice behavior for projects, little is known about antecedents of voice behavior in the project context, especially construction projects…

Health and safety risk of migrant construction workers–a systematic literature review

Zechen Guan, Tak Wing Yiu, Don Amila Sajeevan Samarasinghe, Ravi Reddy

The aim of this paper is to review and analyze the research literature on the health and safety issues of migrant workers in the construction industry from 2000 to 2022.

An interactive and collaborative augmented reality environment for civil engineering education: steel reinforcement bars teaching as an example

Yi Tan, Wenyu Xu, Keyu Chen, Chunyan Deng, Peng Wang

At present, teaching methods based on 2D drawings are still commonly used for educating students on the location of steel reinforcement bars in concrete. However, traditional…

Development and comparative of a new meta-ensemble machine learning model in predicting construction labor productivity

Ibrahim Karatas, Abdulkadir Budak

The study is aimed to compare the prediction success of basic machine learning and ensemble machine learning models and accordingly create novel prediction models by combining…

Towards the adoption of most suitable green walls within sustainable buildings using interval type-2 fuzzy best-worst method and TOPSIS technique

Sanaz Tabatabaee, Mojtaba Ashour, Haleh Sadeghi, Seyed Amirali Hoseini, Saeed Reza Mohandes, Amir Mahdiyar, Syuhaida Ismail, M. Reza Hosseini

To come up with a prudent decision on the installation of an appropriate green wall (GW) on buildings, this study presents a novel decision-making algorithm. The proposed…

BIM in the Malaysian construction industry: a scientometric review and case study

Bruno Lot Tanko, Wyom Paul Zakka, Wee Nie Heng

The purpose of this study is to explore existing literature on Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Malaysia and examine the perception of practitioners about the potential of…

Conceptual cost estimation of highway bid items – A systematic literature review

Bright Awuku, Eric Asa, Edmund Baffoe-Twum, Adikie Essegbey

Challenges associated with ensuring the accuracy and reliability of cost estimation of highway construction bid items are of significant interest to state highway transportation…

Exploring the adoption of technology against delays in construction projects

Asli Pelin Gurgun, Kerim Koc, Handan Kunkcu

Completing construction projects within the planned schedule has widely been considered as one of the major project success factors. This study investigates the use of…

Labor resource allocation under extremely short construction period based on the inverse optimization method

Junlong Peng, Xiang-Jun Liu

This research is aimed to mainly be applicable to expediting engineering projects, uses the method of inverse optimization and the double-layer nested genetic algorithm combined…

An investigation of how stakeholders influence construction project performance: a small and medium sized contractor’s perspective in the Jordanian construction industry

Suhair Alkilani, Martin Loosemore

This research uses contingency theory and Venkatraman’s concept of moderating fit to explore how key project stakeholders (clients, consultants and suppliers) influence project…

Influence of psychosocial safety climate on construction workers’ intent to stay, taking job satisfaction as the intermediary

Linlin Xie, Ziyuan Luo, Bo Xia

From a psychosocial perspective, this study aims to understand the impact of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) on the intent to stay of construction workers and provides practical…

Investigating the impact of emerging technologies on construction safety performance

Esra Dobrucali, Sevilay Demirkesen, Emel Sadikoglu, Chengyi Zhang, Atilla Damci

Construction safety is heavily affected by using new technologies in this growing trend of technology adoption. Especially, safety performance is enhanced through the utilization…

Optimization of service scheduling problem for overlapping tower cranes with cooperative coevolutionary genetic algorithm

Jing Yin, Jiahao Li, Ahui Yang, Shunyao Cai

In regarding to operational efficiency and safety improvements, multiple tower crane service scheduling problem is one of the main problems related to tower crane operation but…