Construction Innovation: Volume 3 Issue 1

Value creation through an e‐business strategy: implication for SMEs in construction

Francisco Loforte Robeiro, Peter E.D. Love

Many construction organizations have begun to acknowledge that to improve the performance of their supply chains they need to establish long‐term relationships with suppliers so…

Developing distributed design capabilities in the construction supply chain

Tony Elliman, Graham Orange

This paper reviews the changing nature of construction design and the potential for e‐procurement to respond to these changes. With the emphasis shifting from supply‐driven to…

Webfill before landfill: an e‐commerce model for waste exchange in Hong Kong

Zhen Chen, Heng Li, Conrad T.C. Wong

Although the Trip‐ticket System (TTS) has been implemented to manage construction and demolition (C&D) waste in Hong Kong for over three years, problems still exist in the…

ELECTRE III in evaluating performance of construction plants: case study on concrete vibrators

C.M. Tam, Thomas K.L. Tong, C.T. Lau

In this paper, we discuss how a multi‐criteria decision‐making technique (ELECTRE III) facilitates construction practitioners in decision making for selecting an appropriate…