Construction Innovation: Volume 16 Issue 2

Reflecting on 10 years of focus on innovation, organisational learning and knowledge management literature in a construction project management context

Derek H.T. Walker

This paper provides a brief critical analysis of how the focus on innovation diffusion, organisational learning and knowledge management has developed with an emphasis on the…

Critical factors influencing the bid/no bid decision in the Australian construction industry

Morteza Shokri-Ghasabeh, Nicholas Chileshe

The purpose of this study is to investigate and rank the critical factors influencing the bid/no bid criteria and their importance in the Australian construction industry.

Delivering a water treatment plant project using a collaborative project procurement approach

Derek H.T. Walker, Farshid Rahmani

The purpose of this paper is to explore an interesting complex infrastructure construction case study project in which the initiation/design and delivery phases were managed…

Fusion based learning approach for predicting concrete pouring productivity based on construction and supply parameters

Mojtaba Maghrebi, Ali Shamsoddini, S. Travis Waller

The purpose of this paper is to predict the concrete pouring production rate by considering both construction and supply parameters, and by using a more stable learning method.

System model for analysing construction labour productivity

Abraham Assefa Tsehayae, Aminah Robinson Fayek

Despite long-term, sustained research and industry practice, predicting construction labour productivity (CLP) using existing factor and activity modelling approaches remains a…

Hybrid project delivery processes observed in constructor BIM innovation adoption

Barry J. Gledson

Exploratory research was undertaken focusing upon an innovation adoption decision taken by a regional UK division of a large international contracting organisation implementing…