Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology: Volume 20 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Larissa Statsenko, Nicholas Chileshe, Rebekka Volk, Peter Warrian

Integration of BIM and advanced digital technologies to the end of life decision-making process: a paradigm of future opportunities

Aurora Abruzzini, Sepehr Abrishami

At the end of a building’s lifecycle, there are several limitations to the decision-making process (DMP). There is a lack of data available from the building’s history, the…

Modelling the relationship between value management’s activities and critical success factors for sustainable buildings

Ahmed Farouk Kineber, Idris Bin Othman, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke, Nicholas Chileshe

The purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of value management (VM) critical success factors (CSFs) on the implementation of VM activities in building projects with a…

Strength and microstructure behaviour of high calcium fly ash based sustainable geo polymer concrete

Vijaya Prasad B., Arumairaj Paul Daniel, Anand N., Siva Kumar Yadav

Concrete is a building material widely used for the infrastructural development. Cement is the binding material used for the development of concrete. It is the primary cause of CO₂…

Waste utilization to enhance performance of road subbase fill

Kurban Onturk, Seyhan Firat, Gulgun Yilmaz, Jamal Khatib

The purpose of this study is to use waste materials in construction to create sustainable practices. This will contribute towards circular economy which has gained momentum in…

A review of the role of digitalization in health risk management in extractive industries – a study motivated by COVID-19

Trung Nguyen, Ray Gosine, Peter Warrian

While disruptions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the failure of some companies, others embraced innovative digital technologies to face the challenge posed by…

A framework for near real-time ROM stockpile modelling to improve blending efficiency

Shi Zhao, Tien-Fu Lu, Larissa Statsenko, Benjamin Koch, Chris Garcia

In the mining industry, a run-of-mine (ROM) stockpile is a temporary storage unit, but it is also widely accepted as an effective method to reduce the short-term variations of ore…

Value co-creation in asset integrity and improvement portfolio: evidence from the Australian mining industry

Brenton Lawson, Larissa Statsenko, Morteza Shokri-Ghasabeh

Adopting a qualitative research design and following a single case study research methodology 21 semi-structured interviews with asset integrity project managers (PM), project…

Including decision-makers preferences in the cost-deprivation trade-off during disaster interventions

Florian Diehlmann, Patrick Siegfried Hiemsch, Marcus Wiens, Markus Lüttenberg, Frank Schultmann

In this contribution, the purpose of this study is to extend the established social cost concept of humanitarian logistics into a preference-based bi-objective approach. The novel…