Construction Innovation: Volume 16 Issue 4

Error management: implications for construction

Peter E.D. Love, Jim Smith

Conventional “wisdom” in construction has placed emphasis on error prevention and is often aligned with the concept of “Zero Vision”; improvements to safety and quality have been…

Innovation orientation in architectural firms

Kong Seng Lai, Nor’Aini Yusof, Ernawati Mustafa Kamal

Innovation is defined as the creation and adoption of changes that are new to an organisation or industry. The high probability of failure and the lack of innovation in the…

Assessing lean conformance by first-grade contractors in the Jordanian construction industry

Ghaleb J. Sweis, Mohammad Hiyassat, Fares F. Al-Hroub

There is little information existing about the spread of lean among Jordanian construction companies. Building on a report by Diekmann et al. (2004), this paper aims to perform a…

Factors affecting perceived level of virtuality in hybrid construction project teams (HCPTs): A qualitative study

M. Reza Hosseini, Nicholas Chileshe, Bassam Baroudi, Jian Zuo, Anthony Mills

Deploying hybrid construction project teams (HCPTs) in which the common pattern of interactions is a blend of face-to-face and virtual communications has been increasingly gaining…

Lean and agile integration within offsite construction using discrete event simulation: A systematic literature review

Sherif Mostafa, Nicholas Chileshe, Tariq Abdelhamid

The purpose of this study is to systematically analyse and synthesise the existing research published on offsite manufacturing/construction. The study aims to highlight and…

Six Sigma improvement project in a concrete block plant

Salvador Noriega Morales, Adán Valles Ch., Vianey Torres-Argüelles, Erwin Martínez G., Andrés Hernández G.

This paper aims to describe the application of several Six Sigma tools to explain the improvement changes needed in a company that manufactures concrete blocks. The paper explains…