Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 13 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Transforming the construction industry towards the next normal

Udayangani Kulatunga, Temitope Omotayo, Michele Victoria

Remote working in construction: assessing the affordance of digitisation

Zahirah Mokhtar Azizi, James Cochrane, Niraj Thurairajah, Nurul Sakina Mokhtar Azizi

As remote working becomes increasingly popular, remote working could unlock new ways of working through digitisation. However, the construction sector has been slow to adopt…

The new-normal challenges and IPD solutions: a Canadian case study

Sara Rankohi, Mario Bourgault, Ivanka Iordanova

According to the construction literature, the number of projects applying integrated project delivery (IPD) principles is expected to increase in the new-normal era. However…

A labour performance score and grading system to the next normal practices in construction

Kesavan Manoharan, Pujitha B.G. Dissanayake, Chintha Pathirana, Dharsana Deegahawature, K.D. Renuka Ruchira Silva

The performance-based utilisation of labour resources is a decisive function for developing characteristics of the next normal in the construction industry. Based on the…

The real estate market in Ghana: the nexus between price and income levels

William Gyadu-Asiedu, Firmin Anewuoh, Kennedy Appiadu-Boakye

This study aimed to identify the link between the income levels of government workers and the prices of real estate houses in Ghana to identify the prevailing mortgage gaps and to…

TOPSIS analysis for sustainable redevelopment potential of abandoned infrastructure in Nigeria

Mercy Ogunnusi, Huda Salman, Richard Laing

Abandonment poses a range of effects detrimental to the development of a country such as Nigeria. Restoring such infrastructure in a sustainable manner is a challenge identified…

Adaptability capacity framework for sustainable practices in the Ghanaian construction industry

Mark Pim-Wusu, Clinton Aigbavboa, Wellington Didibhuku Thwala

The urgent need to preserve the ecosystem, which faces a threat from non-environmentally-friendly anthropogenic activities, has led to the study of adaptive capacity…

Integrating sustainability practices into the Irish construction supply chain: main contractors' perspective

Duga Ewuga, Michael Adesi

The low level of sustainable practices in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) sector continues to increase. In driving sustainability practice adoption and…

Establishing underpinning concepts for integrating circular economy and offsite construction: a bibliometric review

Lovelin Obi, Mohammed Arif, Emmanuel I. Daniel, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Jack Steven Goulding

Circular economy (CE) and offsite construction (OSC) are two innovations for improving the construction industry's overall performance against a myriad of sustainability-driven…

Awareness and practice of the principles of circular economy among built environment professionals

Judith Amudjie, Kofi Agyekum, Emmanuel Adinyira, Samuel Amos-Abanyie, Victoria Maame Afriyie Kumah

This study examines the level of awareness and practice of the principles of circular economy (CE) among built environment (BE) professionals in Ghana.

Challenges to energy transitioning in commercial buildings in the Nigerian built environment – from generator to RETs economy

Maria Unuigbe, Sambo Lyson Zulu, David Johnston

Challenges to energy access in Nigeria have resulted in the widespread use of fossil fuel generating sets (generators) despite its renewable energy (RE) potential. Given the…

Dynamics of PPP investment in energy and country governance: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Abdullahi Baba Ahmed, Innocent Musonda, J.H.C. Pretorius

This paper intends to investigate the empirical link between governance and energy investment in PPP. To succinctly account for biases in the fixed effects (FE) model, the authors…

Framing the barriers to construction industry transformation

Greg Watts, Peter McDermott, Shaba Kolo

“Transforming construction” is a wide-ranging strategic term, under which sit numerous initiatives. It is the latest, in a long line of strategies and reports introduced to with…