International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation: Volume 41 Issue 2

Sustainability potential awareness among built environment stakeholders: experience from Tanzania

Sophia Marcian Kongela

Sustainability in the built environment is rapidly gaining attention worldwide, although many developing countries have not accomplished much on the ground as many sustainability…

Green maintainability assessment of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) applications: lessons learnt

Sheila Conejos, Michael Y.L. Chew, Karlyn Tay, Stephen Tay, Sufiana Safiena

The maintenance of green building technologies such as building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) is a challenge due to the non-existence of maintainability considerations during the…

Regeneration and documentation of historic geometric Islamic patterns via HBIM: a case study of Choli minaret, Kurdistan Region

Koosha Wafaei Baneh, Bira Wafaei Baneh, Ashraf Osman, Omid Mostafapour, Zidan Rasheed Bradosty

Due to the weaknesses of the traditional methods and advances in science, using currently new technologies such as building information modeling (BIM) for the restoration and…

Life cycle assessment of earthen materials for low-cost housing a comparison between rammed earth and fired clay bricks

Hamed Nouri, Majid Safehian, Seyed Majdeddin Mir Mohammad Hosseini

Although the use of diverse types of bricks as the primary construction materials has been considered for many years, vernacular earthen materials are also widely used for…

Evaluation of infrastructure resilience

Wenping Xu, Jinting Cong, David G. Proverbs

The purpose of this study is to undertake an evaluation of the resilient capacity of the infrastructure systems in the city of Wuhan. This evaluation focuses on the ability of the…

Analysis of construction delay for delivering quality project in Bangladesh

Md. Ikramul Hoque, Md. Abu Safayet, Md. Jewel Rana, Abu Yousuf Bhuiyan, Golam Sadmani Quraishy

Construction delay is the most common issue and creates many adverse effects in any construction industry. This study has investigated the views of engineers, project managers and…

Modeling the Big Data challenges in context of smart cities – an integrated fuzzy ISM-DEMATEL approach

Mohd Imran Khan, Shahbaz Khan, Urfi Khan, Abid Haleem

Big Data can be utilised for efficient use of resources and to provide better services to the resident in order to enhance the delivery of urban services and create sustainable…

Impact of BIM-related factors affecting construction project performance

Nguyen Van Tam, Nguyen Quoc Toan, Vu Van Phong, Serdar Durdyev

This study aims to investigate the impact of primary building information modelling (BIM)-related factors, extracted from the literature on the subject, on construction project…

Design for safety in construction in Nigeria: a qualitative inquiry of the critical opportunities

Nnedinma Umeokafor, Chioma Okoro, Ikechukwu Diugwu, Tariq Umar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical opportunities for design for safety (DFS), the potential statutory (and non-statutory) health and safety (H&S…

Examination of roles performed by public sector organizations in the procurement of public-private partnership projects

Betty Oluwafunso Olojede, Akintayo Opawole, Godwin Onajite Jagboro, Oluwaseyi Olalekan Alao

The clarity of requisite roles of public sector organizations (PSOs) for successful procurement of public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure in Nigeria is not…