Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 25 Issue 7

Barriers to the adoption of value management in developing countries

Douglas Omoregie Aghimien, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa

The purpose of this paper is to determine the barriers to the adoption of value management (VM) in the construction industry of developing countries with a view to providing…

Structural equation modelling for subcontracting practice: Malaysia chapter

Yoke-Lian Lew, Salihudin Hassim, Ratnasamy Muniandy, Law Teik Hua

Most of the previous studies conducted on the subject of subcontractors often focussed on a single phase of subcontracting practice; either on registration, selection of…

Survival strategies of built environment organisations in a challenging economy

Douglas Omoregie Aghimien, Emmanuel Imuetiyan Aghimien, Akinlolu Oyebobola Fadiyimu, Taiwo Fadeke Adegbembo

The economic downturn in Nigeria calls for the need to appraise the survival strategies being adopted by organisations within the built environment, as it plays a major role in…

Revisiting storey enclosure method for early estimation of structural building construction cost

Chau Ngoc Dang, Long Le-Hoai

The purpose of this paper is to develop several predictive models for estimating the structural construction cost and establish range estimation for the structural construction…

International comparisons of nominal and real construction labour productivity

Fah Choy Chia, Martin Skitmore, Jason Gray, Adrian Bridge

A comparison of international construction labour productivity (CLP) is carried out by the conventional use of exchange rates to convert national construction output to a common…

Factors affecting construction productivity: a 30 year systematic review

Abid Hasan, Bassam Baroudi, Abbas Elmualim, Raufdeen Rameezdeen

A significant amount of work has been performed in the area of identification of factors affecting construction productivity. Previous studies have tried to determine the most…

Optimization of concrete placing operation based on competing carbon footprint, cost and production rate objectives

Zahra Sadat Moussavi Nadoushani, Ali Akbarnezhad, David Rey

Due to considerable contributions of the construction industry to the global carbon emissions, a great deal of attention is placed on possible incorporation of carbon footprint…

State-of-practice for risk-based quality assurance in state departments of transportation

Erick Oechler, Keith R. Molenaar, Matthew Hallowell, Sidney Scott

Selecting an optimal quality assurance (QA) process can have significant implications on the long-term durability and lifecycle costs of transportation projects. Currently, the…