Construction Innovation: Volume 11 Issue 2

Building future sustainable cities: the need for a new mindset

Toufic Mezher

This paper seeks to emphasise the need for changing the mindset of all the players of the construction industry in order to meet the sustainability challenges, energy and…

An agent‐based intelligent virtual learning environment for construction management

E.A. Obonyo

This paper aims to describe the deployment of an e‐learning environment for construction courses based on enhancing virtual computing technologies using agent‐based techniques.

House construction CO2 footprint quantification: a BIM approach

Don Mah, Juan D. Manrique, Haitao Yu, Mohamed Al‐Hussein, Reza Nasseri

This paper aims to establish a baseline for carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions quantification in the current residential construction process. Opportunities to reduce the…

Maintenance contractors acting as service innovators

A. (Ad) Straub

The purpose of this paper is to show how performance‐based contracting functions as an enabler of service innovation by maintenance contractors.

Mapping of synchronous activities through virtual management momentum simulation

V. Beran, P. Dlask, D. Eaton, E. Hromada, O. Zindulka

This paper seeks to present an approach to the improvement of the risk analysis of construction projects by linking risk analysis to the potential variances in time and cost…

Logistics simulation modelling across construction supply chains

Christos Vidalakis, John E. Tookey, James Sommerville

The purpose of this paper is to present a logistical analysis of construction supply chains by assessing the impact of varying demand on the performance of builders' merchants'…

The adoption of innovative asphalt equipment in road construction

Thijs Habets, Hans Voordijk, Peter van der Sijde

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the adoption process of innovative asphalt equipment in road construction and how the level of knowledge as characterised by…