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Article
Publication date: 28 February 2022

Duncan Maxwell and Rachel Couper

Construction suffers from “peculiarities” that concern the temporary natures of the construction site, project teams and unique product design. Considering the digital…

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Purpose

Construction suffers from “peculiarities” that concern the temporary natures of the construction site, project teams and unique product design. Considering the digital transformation of construction, new solutions are being investigated that can provide consistent data between changing projects. One such source of data manifests in the tracking of logistics activities across the supply chain. Construction logistics is traditionally considered a site management activity focused solely on the “back end” of projects, but an expanded logistics focus can unlock new avenues of improvement. This study aims to understand the requirements and benefits of such a consistent thread of data.

Design/methodology/approach

From a research project with one of Australia’s largest contracting companies, this paper details a series of construction tracking tests as an empirical case study in using Bluetooth low energy aware tracking technology to capture data across the manufacture, delivery and assembly of a cross-laminated timber structural prototyping project.

Findings

The findings affirm the tracking of expanded logistics data can improve back-end performance in subsequent projects while also demonstrating the opportunity to inform a project’s unique front-end design phase. The case study demonstrates that as the reliability, range and battery life of tracking technologies improve, their incorporation into a broader range of construction activities provides invaluable data for improvement across projects.

Originality/value

As a live case study, this research offers unique insights into the potential of construction tracking to close the data loop from final site assembly back to the early project design phase, thus driving continual improvement from a holistic perspective.

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Construction Innovation , vol. 23 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1471-4175

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Publication date: 21 June 2024

Lisa Fetman and Linsay DeMartino

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Transformative Democracy in Educational Leadership and Policy
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83753-545-3

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Publication date: 3 September 2020

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Cultural Competence in Higher Education
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78769-772-0

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Publication date: 1 August 2006

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Structural Survey, vol. 24 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-080X

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Publication date: 6 February 2017

Robert Kozielski

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Understanding the New Business Paradigm in Eastern Europe
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78714-120-9

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Publication date: 12 April 2024

Glenys Caswell

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Time of Death
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80455-006-9

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Publication date: 1 May 2018

Emmanuel Mogaji

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Emotional Appeals in Advertising Banking Services
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78756-302-5

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Publication date: 11 September 2023

Eric Kwame Adae

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CEOs on a Mission
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-80382-215-0

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Publication date: 15 December 2002

Frederick R. Rohs

The Cooperative Extension Service has been a key partner in the design, implementation and evaluation of leadership development programs. To evaluate the effectiveness of their…

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The Cooperative Extension Service has been a key partner in the design, implementation and evaluation of leadership development programs. To evaluate the effectiveness of their training and the effects of response shift bias on outcomes using a self-report measure, one hundred forty-seven County Extension Agents participated in this leadership study. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups or to a control group. Two different evaluation designs (pre-posttest and then-post) were used. The then-post design asks participants to first report their behavior or understanding as a result of the training (post) and then to retrospectively report this behavior before the training. The then-post evaluation design provided more significant change data than did the traditional pre-posttest design indicating a response shift occurred. Such differences in evaluation findings suggest that the educational benefit of such trainings may be underestimated when using the traditional pre-post evaluation design.

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Journal of Leadership Education, vol. 1 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1552-9045

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Publication date: 13 April 2020

William Outhwaite

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Transregional Europe
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-494-1

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