Construction Innovation: Volume 24 Issue 7

Delineating the people-related features required for construction digitalisation

Douglas Aghimien, Clinton Aigbavboa, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke, John Aliu

Digitalisation, which involves the use of digital technologies in transforming an organisation’s activities, transcends just the acquiring of emerging digital tools. Having the…

Organising methods enabling integration for value creation in complex projects

Kari-Pekka Tampio, Harri Haapasalo

The purpose of this paper is to identify the areas and logic of integration of different stakeholders using different methods and to analyse their applicability and challenges in…

Combining artificial intelligence and building engineering technologies towards energy efficiency: the case of ventilated façades

Serena Summa, Alex Mircoli, Domenico Potena, Giulia Ulpiani, Claudia Diamantini, Costanzo Di Perna

Nearly 75% of EU buildings are not energy-efficient enough to meet the international climate goals, which triggers the need to develop sustainable construction techniques with…

To prefabricate or not? A method for evaluating the impact of prefabrication in building construction

Krishna Chauhan, Antti Peltokorpi, Rita Lavikka, Olli Seppänen

Prefabricated products are continually entering the building construction market; yet, the decision to use prefabricated products in a construction project is based mostly on…

How public client’s control systems affect contractors’ innovation possibilities

Anna-Therése Järvenpää, Johan Larsson, Per Erik Eriksson

This paper aims to identify how a public client’s use of control systems (process, output and social control) affect innovation possibilities in construction projects.

Implementing solar photovoltaic systems in buildings: a case of systemic innovation in the construction sector

Charlotta Winkler

This paper aims to explore the process of implementing solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in construction to contribute to the understanding of systemic innovation in construction.

Performance measurement indicators influential to the espousal of cyber-physical systems for facilities management – a Delphi approach

Matthew Ikuabe, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, Chimay Anumba, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke

The quest for improved facilities management (FM) delivery is receiving immense focus through the incorporation of innovative technologies such as cyber-physical systems (CPS)…

Industrialized house building productivity growth

Lars Stehn, Alexander Jimenez

The purpose of this paper is to understand if and how industrialized house building (IHB) could support productivity developments for housebuilding on project and industry levels…

Identifying latent classes to successful AEC innovation through a survey of Finnish construction companies

Kai Hänninen, Jouni Juntunen, Harri Haapasalo

The purpose of this study is to describe latent classes explaining the innovation logic in the Finnish construction companies. Innovativeness is a driver of competitive…

Integrating lean construction with BIM and sustainability: a comparative study of challenges, enablers, techniques, and benefits

Sina Moradi, Piia Sormunen

The construction industry has considerably evolved in the recent two decades due to the emergence of sustainability, lean construction (LC) and building information modelling…

Implementation of circular economy in construction projects: a procurement strategy approach

Siraj Ahmed, Jukka Majava, Kirsi Aaltonen

The purpose of this study is to investigate the benefits and challenges of implementing circular economy (CE), as well as shed light on the influence of procurement strategy in CE…

Organizing construction logistics outsourcing: a logistics strategy perspective

Petter Haglund, Mats Janné

The construction industry shows an increased interest in how to manage logistics within construction projects. Often construction logistics is outsourced to a logistics service…

Clients as drivers of innovation in the infrastructure sector: implications of hard and soft project management approaches

Jacob Guerrero, Susanne Engström

By adopting the “hard” and “soft” project management (PM) approaches from the PM-literature, this paper aims to problematize the expected role of client organizations in driving…

Cyber-physical systems for facilities management: a Delphi study on the propelling measures

Matthew Ikuabe, Clinton Aigbavboa, Chimay Anumba, Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke

Through its advanced computational capabilities, cyber–physical systems (CPS) proffer solutions to some of the cultural challenges plaguing the effective delivery of facilities…

Digital transformation of the wood construction supply chain through building information modelling: current state of practice

Lina Gharaibeh, Sandra Matarneh, Kristina Eriksson, Björn Lantz

This study aims to present a state-of-the-art review of building information modelling (BIM) in the Swedish construction practice with a focus on wood construction. It focuses on…

Automation of text document classification in the budgeting phase of the Construction process: a Systematic Literature Review

Luís Jacques de Sousa, João Poças Martins, Luís Sanhudo, João Santos Baptista

This study aims to review recent advances towards the implementation of ANN and NLP applications during the budgeting phase of the construction process. During this phase…