Construction Innovation: Volume 13 Issue 1

Can knowledge sharing mitigate the effect of construction project complexity?

Trevor Cooke

In recent years the pace of technological innovation in construction operations has escalated with resulting intensification of the inputs necessary for contemporary…

Enablers and challenges of a sustainable housing industry in Malaysia

Nazirah Zainul Abidin, Nor'Aini Yusof, Ayman A.E. Othman

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the enablers of creating a viable environment for a sustainable housing industry and investigate the barriers limiting this progress.

Implementation of web‐based construction project management system in China projects by Hong Kong developers

Andy K.D. Wong, Rong Zhang

This paper aims to identify the challenges of Hong Kong and overseas developers in project management when undertaking real estate projects in China, and then focuses on how to…

Construction business failure: conceptual synthesis of causal agents

Gary D. Holt

Business failure has evolved a major research domain, both of corporate finance generally and of construction management, equally. Much of this attention has focused on assessing…

Allocation of construction resources through a pull‐driven approach

S. Thomas Ng, Daisy X.M. Zheng, Jessie Z. Xie

Construction resources are often limited, and there is a need to ensure resources are carefully allocated to avoid resource wastage and/or project delay. While mathematical and…

Challenges of coordination between climate and technology policies: A case study of strategies in Denmark and the UK

Björn Budde

The issue of climate change raises new requirements for the way our societies work. Even though climate policy is regarded as being crucial on the way to a low carbon society, the…

Factors affecting the selection of data storage approach in radio frequency identification applications

Gursans Guven, Esin Ergen

The main purpose of this study is to present an overview of the state of the art of the RFID technology in terms of data storage approaches in construction cases, and to identify…

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