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Editorial: Communities and champions of practice: catalysts for learning and knowing
Peter E.D. LoveThe concept of community of practice is a common parlance in many organisations, but has yet to be utilised as strategic tool by construction organisations to improve the…
Critical planning processes in construction projects
Ofer ZwikaelThe purpose of this paper is to improve construction project planning capabilities. As project management is a core capability in the construction industry, high‐quality project…
Framework for a generic work breakdown structure for building projects
Yahaya Makarfi Ibrahim, Ammar Kaka, Ghassan Aouad, Mike KagioglouThe purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for the standardisation of the work breakdown structure (WBS) for building projects. This is based on the premise that…
Extended GIS for construction engineering by adding direct sunlight visualisations on buildings
Vijay K. Bansal, Mahesh PalThe applications of geographic information systems (GIS) are described in the civil engineering literature for generation, visualisation and evaluation of the construction…
Construction virtual prototyping: a survey of use
Ting Huang, Heng Li, Hongling Guo, Neo Chan, Stephen Kong, Greg Chan, Martin SkitmoreThe introduction of Building Information Model (BIM) tools over the last 20 years is resulting in radical changes in the architectural, engineering and construction industry. One…
Communities of practice in construction case study organisations: Questions and insights
Kirti Ruikar, Lauri Koskela, Martin SextonAt the heart of knowledge management (KM) are the people – an organisation's important knowledge asset. Although this is widely acknowledged, businesses seldom understand this…
Validation of an empirical model for innovation diffusion in Australian design firms
Kriengsak Panuwatwanich, Rodney A. Stewart, Sherif MohamedThe paper is an extension to a previous empirical study that models the process of innovation diffusion in Australian architectural and engineering design (AED) firms. This paper…
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Anil Sawhney
- Professor Srinath Perera