Table of contents - Special Issue: Celebrating 20 years 1992‐2012
Guest Editors: Mustafa Alshawi, Jack Goulding
Sustaining inertia?: Construction clients' decision‐making and information‐processing approach to industrialized building innovations
Susanne Engström, Erika HedgrenHumans tend to rely on beliefs, assumptions and cognitive rules‐of‐thumb for making judgments and are biased against taking more uncertain alternatives. Such inertia has…
Perceived inefficiency in social housing maintenance
Mark Sharp, Keith JonesThe purpose of this paper is to identify areas of waste and inefficiency in the built asset maintenance process and to outline an alternative approach based around performance…
The use of virtual prototyping to rehearse the sequence of construction work involving mobile cranes
Heng Li, Neo K.Y. Chan, Martin SkitmoreRehearsing practical site operations is without doubt one of the most effective methods for minimising planning mistakes, because of the learning that takes place during the…
Critical sustainability factors in industrialised building systems
Riduan Yunus, Jay YangThe purpose of this paper is to identify critical sustainability factors for improved implementation of industrialised building systems (IBS). It also aims to highlight the…
Need for innovation in supplying engineer‐to‐order joinery products to construction: A case study in Sweden
Samuel Forsman, Niclas Björngrim, Anders Bystedt, Lars Laitila, Peter Bomark, Micael ÖhmanThe construction industry has been criticized for not keeping up with other production industries in terms of cost efficiency, innovation, and production methods. The purpose of…
Transportation infrastructure development in the UAE: Stakeholder perspectives on management practice
Moza T. Al Nahyan, Amrik S. Sohal, Brian N. Fildes, Yaser E. HawasThe purpose of this paper is to examine the major management issues that impact on mega transportation infrastructure projects in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and identify the…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Anil Sawhney
- Professor Srinath Perera