Construction Innovation: Volume 13 Issue 4

Innovation in construction – before the curtain goes up

Colin Davidson

This paper aims to present an overview of innovation in the construction sector, its forms, its inherent pitfalls and difficulties, and some underlying reasons for them. The…

Empirical analysis of the determinants of environmentally sustainable practices in the UK construction industry

Peter Oluwole Akadiri, Olusanjo Olaniran Fadiya

During the last decade, the practice of sustainability has been gradually adopted in the UK construction industry, with the increasing interest in the discourse of sustainable…

Project schedule compression: a multi-objective methodology

Osama Moselhi, Nazila Roofigari-Esfahan

This paper aims to present a new method to circumvent the limitations of current schedule compression methods which reduce schedule crashing to the traditional time-cost trade-off…

Performance-based procurement for low-disturbance bridge construction projects

Rizal Sebastian, Christina Claeson-Jonsson, Roberto Di Giulio

This paper aims to introduce a method of performance-based procurement, based on the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT), for low-disturbance bridge construction projects…

Construction patents and university-industry research interaction: An analysis of Nordic region data

Jan Bröchner

In the context of university-industry interaction, little is known about construction patents. The purpose of this paper is to explore this aspect of construction innovation…

Value-based perspectives of stakeholders' building requirements in low cost and government subsidised housing projects in South Africa

Abimbola Olukemi Windapo, Jack Goulding

South Africa still has a considerable housing shortage. Government has tried to overcome this situation by creating programs to provide affordable housing to poor people. However…

A comparison of fuzzy logic and multiple regression analysis models in determining contingency in international construction projects

Gul Polat, Befrin Neval Bingol

The main objective of this paper is to show how fuzzy logic and multiple regression analysis (MRA) techniques can be used by construction companies for determining the size of…