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The purpose of this paper is to analyse site managers’ ICT preferences for monitoring resource use in refurbishment projects.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) developments for the construction industry are increasing the scope for more efficient planning and monitoring of refurbishment projects. The analysis is based on the unified theory of acceptance and the use of technology model. After a short initial survey, a Swedish web/postal questionnaire has received 78 responses from refurbishment site managers, implying a 34 per cent response rate.

Managerial choices related to ICT depend more on perceived performance expectancy than on effort expectancy. Large projects and larger firms are associated with more extensive ICT use. Site managers see little need to link to refurbishment clients’ ICT systems. Performance expectancy and age are found to influence ICT choices.

Site managers play a crucial role in everyday use of ICT tools in the construction industry. The outcome of this investigation is useful for developing digital support, including applications of building information modelling, to improve refurbishment site practices.

Much has been written about ICT support for new construction practices, but not much attention has been paid to refurbishment site managers’ media choices.

The purpose of this paper is to use the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) to obtain numerical soliton solution of the improved Boussinesq equation (IBE). The solutions are calculated in the form of a convergent power series with easily computable components.

The HPM is used to obtain numerical soliton solution of the IBE. The solutions are calculated in the form of a convergent power series with easily computable components.

The errors are obtained by using the approximate solution given by using only two iterations of the HPM. It is evident that the efficiency of this approach can be dramatically enhanced by computing further terms of approximate solution.

The numerical results presented in the paper show that only a few terms are sufficient to obtain accurate solutions.

The purpose of this paper is to directly extend the homotopy perturbation method (HPM) that was developed for integer‐order differential equation, to derive explicit and numerical solutions of the fractional KdV‐Burgers‐Kuramoto equation.

The authors used Maple Package to calculate the functions obtained from the HPM.

The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. HPM performs extremely well in terms of accuracy, efficiently, simplicity, stability and reliability.

The paper describes how the HPM has been successfully applied to find the solution of fractional KdV‐Burgers‐Kuramoto equation.