Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 24 Issue 5

Stakeholder competency in evaluating the environmental impacts of infrastructure projects using BIM

Martina Elizabeth Murphy, Maja-Marija Nahod

Building information modelling (BIM) literature reveals a growing interest in the development of a competency-based approach to manage the long-term goals of BIM implementation in…

Managing the expectations of external stakeholders in construction projects

Albert P.C. Chan, Goodenough D. Oppong

The consideration of external stakeholders has proven to be more critical than internal stakeholders in construction projects. The purpose of this paper is to present the diverse…

Critical factors affecting schedule performance: A case of Ethiopian public construction projects – engineers’ perspective

Ephrem Girma Sinesilassie, Syed Zafar Shahid Tabish, Kumar Neeraj Jha

Time overrun is one of the most significant issues being faced by Ethiopian construction industry today. For effective time performance, the successful execution of construction…

Implementation of best-value procurement for highway design and construction in the USA

Dai Q. Tran, Keith R. Molenaar, Bharath Kolli

The purpose of this paper is to investigate procedures and practices to promote transparency in best-value procurement for the design and construction of highway projects with the…

Integrating Indigenous enterprises into the Australian construction industry

George Denny-Smith, Martin Loosemore

The purpose of this paper is to explore the barriers to entry for Indigenous businesses into the Australian construction industry.

Modeling schedule overrun and cost escalation percentages of highway projects using fuzzy approach

Ahmed Ebrahim Abu El-Maaty, Amr M. El-Kholy, Ahmed Yousry Akal

Modeling represents the art of translating problems from an application area into tractable mathematical formulations whose theoretical and numerical analysis provides insight…

The professionals’ perspective on the causes of project delay in the construction industry

George Agyekum-Mensah, Andrew David Knight

Construction project delays are described as a universal problem, which has led to many empirical studies. However, most of these studies were based on the rankings by…

Dynamic interactions between sustainability and competitiveness in construction firms: A transition perspective

Rui-Dong Chang, Jian Zuo, Veronica Soebarto, Zhen-Yu Zhao, George Zillante

Sustainability and competitiveness have received extensive attentions. Despite a large number of studies on sustainability and competitiveness in the construction industry, little…