Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 27 Issue 3

Integrated project delivery implementation framework for water and wastewater treatment plant projects

Elie Georges Andary, Caesar Abi Shdid, Arindam Chowdhury, Irtishad Ahmad

The public nature of water and wastewater construction capital projects has rendered design-bid-build (DBB) as the delivery method of choice for such projects over the past years…

Scientometric analysis of research on “remotely piloted aircraft”: A research agenda for the construction industry

Hamed Golizadeh, M. Reza Hosseini, Igor Martek, David Edwards, Masoud Gheisari, Saeed Banihashemi, Jingxiao Zhang

Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) systems have emerged as an established tool within the construction industry. Concurrent with this trend has been the rise in research on RPA…

Application of lean manufacturing tools and techniques for waste reduction in Nigerian bricks production process

Adefemi Aka, Abubakar Danladi Isah, Chukwudum J. Eze, Owolabi Timileyin

Non-value adding activities or wastes in the lean term have been the major challenge of the construction industry. Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate how such…

A model for implementing product modularity in buildings design

Cecilia Gravina da Rocha, Hana B.C. El Ghoz, Sidnei Jr Guadanhim

The purpose of this paper is to examine the fundamental underpinnings of product modularity and how these can be adapted to construction and its specificities (e.g. one-off…

Assessing building information modeling implementation readiness in building projects in Singapore: A fuzzy synthetic evaluation approach

Longhui Liao, Evelyn Teo Ai Lin, Sui Pheng Low

The purpose of this paper is to identify critical non-value adding (NVA) building information modeling (BIM) implementation activities in current building project delivery…

A fuzzy-based vulnerability assessment model for infrastructure networks incorporating reliability and centrality

Seyed Ashkan Zarghami, Indra Gunawan

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to shift away from an exclusive probabilistic viewpoint or a pure network theory-based perspective for vulnerability assessment of…

Physical and cognitive demands of work in building construction

Franciscsa S. Rodriguez, Jan Spilski, Felix Hekele, Nils Ove Beese, Thomas Lachmann

Investigating demands within an occupational context has always been an essential endeavor to guarantee worker well-being and performance efficiency. In blue-collar occupations…

Workers’ safety behaviors in the off-site manufacturing plant

Qinjun Liu, Gui Ye, Yingbin Feng

Although research on prefabricated construction has gained increasing attention in recent years, limited efforts have been devoted to investigating safety issues in the off-site…

BrIM and UAS for bridge inspections and management

Yiye Xu, Yelda Turkan

The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel and systematic framework for bridge inspection and management to improve the efficiency in current practice.