Construction Innovation: Volume 17 Issue 3

The design and value of “early adopter” low-energy houses

Maria Burke

The purpose of this paper is to outline an early adopter “low energy” domestic dwelling, one of the social houses built by a collaboration between a university, the local council…

Spanning the multilevel boundaries of construction organisations: Towards the delivery of BIM-compliant projects

Enoch Sackey, Julius Akotia

The purpose of this paper is to study the interdependent boundary-spanning activities that characterise the level of permeability of knowledge, information flow and learning among…

Improving productivity of road surfacing operations using value stream mapping and discrete event simulation

Zeeshan Aziz, Rana Muhammad Qasim, Sahawneh Wajdi

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the integration of discrete event simulation (DES) and value stream mapping (VSM) to enhance the productivity of road surfacing…

Implementation of the LPS using an excel spreadsheet: A case study from the New Zealand construction industry

Fahimeh Zaeri, James Olabode Bamidele Rotimi, M. Reza Hosseini, Jeff Cox

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implementation challenges of one of lean construction’s recent tools, the last planner system (LPS), by exploring issues in the New…

Opportunity management in large projects: a case study of an infrastructure alliance project

Anna-Maija Hietajärvi, Kirsi Aaltonen, Harri Haapasalo

This study aims to explore how to identify and manage opportunities successfully in a large multi-organizational infrastructure project. Large projects struggle with exploiting…

Beyond the causes: Rethinking mitigating measures to avert cost and time overruns in construction projects

Richard Ohene Asiedu, Ebenezer Adaku, De-Graft Owusu-Manu

This paper aims to contend that the circle of investigation into overruns cannot be complete unless the established critical failure factors are matched against their respective…

KPIs for measuring performance of production systems for residential building: A production strategy perspective

Henric Jonsson, Martin Rudberg

This paper aims to define key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring performance of production systems for residential building from a production strategy perspective.