Construction Innovation: Volume 21 Issue 2

Use of Scrum in the rehabilitation of a commercial building in Peru

Ysmael Ormeño Zender, Borja García de Soto

This study seeks to break the current paradigm that Scrum, as an agile framework, is only applicable for information technologies (IT) projects and to confirm the feasibility of…

Detecting unbalanced bidding to achieve economic sustainability using fuzzy logic approach

Huimin Li, Limin Su, Lelin L.V., Qing Xia

To achieve sustainability for a construction project requires the achievement of economic, environmental and social sustainability at the same time. The economic sustainability of…

Critical factors influencing the bid or no-bid decision of the indigenous small building contractors in Tanzania

Nicholas Chileshe, Neema Kavishe, David John Edwards

This study aims to investigate and ranks the critical factors influencing the bid or no-bid decision and their importance for the indigenous small building contractors within the…

Emission assessment of alternative dam structure types, a novel approach to consider in new dam projects

Amin Alvanchi, Zahra Bajalan, Pooya Iravani

Dams require high-volume of construction materials and operations over the life cycle. This paper aims to select a proper type of dam structure that can significantly contribute…

Strategic framework for implementing smart devices in the construction industry

Manuel Alexander Silverio-Fernández, Suresh Renukappa, Subashini Suresh

The decentralisation of information and high rate of mobile content access in the construction industry provide an ideal scenario for improvement of processes via the…

Safety plugins for risks prevention through design resourcing BIM

Fernanda Rodrigues, Flávio Antunes, Raquel Matos

The use of building information modelling (BIM) methodology has been increasing in the architecture, engineering, construction and operation sector, driven to a new paradigm of…

Assessment of highways concrete and asphalt pavements using superiority inferiority ranking technique

Mohamed Marzouk, Mohamed Moustafa Ashmawy

Highways are one of the most critical infrastructure projects with strategic impact on the countries’ development. Asphalt has been historically the main pavement material used in…

A review of models for assessing readiness of construction organisations to innovate

Stephen Akunyumu, Frank D.K. Fugar, Emmanuel Adinyira, James Cofie Danku

There is an urgent need for the construction industry to improve its current performance to increase productivity and satisfy the complex and varying needs of project clients. To…

Addressing the knowledge management “nightmare” for construction companies

Paulo Vaz-Serra, Peter Edwards

Knowledge management presents a problem for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, largely because of the industry’s fragmented structure and…

A qualitative study to understand the factors affecting the adoption of glass fiber-reinforced gypsum (GFRG) as a sustainable building technology: insights from Indian construction industry

Ruchi Garg, Ritu Chhikara, Ramendra Singh, Gautam Agrawal, Vishal Talwar, Vedant Mehra

This paper aims to assess the factors favoring the adoption of the challenges faced and support mechanism, which will lead to the proliferation of glass fiber-reinforced gypsum…

Implementing QFD in decision making for selecting the optimal structural system for buildings

Hosam Elhegazy, Ahmed Ebid, Ibrahim Mahdi, Said Haggag, Ibrahim Abdul-Rashied

The purpose of this study is how to use the quality function deployment (QFD) in the construction industry. The study was performed for the owners and decision-makers of a…