Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 23 Issue 1

Game-based learning in construction management courses: a case of bidding game

Bee Lan Oo, Benson Teck-Heng Lim

The game-based learning has been used very successfully in some areas of formal education. In construction management, there is an increased uptake of games in teaching and…

Enablers, challenges and relationships between research impact and theory generation

Gary D. Holt, Jack Steven Goulding, Akintola Akintoye

Perceptions drawn from the construction management research (CMR) community regarding research impact (RI) and its relationship to theory generation (TG) are examined…

Design engineers’ perception of health and safety and its impact in the design process

Susan Morrow, Billy Hare, Iain Cameron

The purpose of this paper is to consider design engineers’ perception of health and safety and its impact on their behaviour during design activity. The study presents three types…

An evaluation of the performance of a large scale collaborative procurement initiative in the social housing sector

Graeme Bowles, James Morgan

The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors relating to the implementation of a new procurement initiative that affect performance and value for money (VFM). The study…

Embeddedness of codes of ethics in construction organizations

Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, Christabel Man-Fong Ho

The existence of codes of ethics in most organizations does not seem to have reduced unethical behaviour especially in the construction organizations due to lack of effective…

An explanatory model of attitudinal fear of HIV/AIDS testing in the construction industry

Paul Bowen, Rajen Govender, Peter Edwards, Keith Cattell

Prevalence of HIV/AIDS infection in the South African construction industry exceeds that of most other economic sectors. Voluntary counselling and testing is pivotal in combatting…

Editorial

Chimay Anumba