Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 9 Issue 3

Integrated project delivery as an enabler for collaboration: a Middle East perspective

Farook Hamzeh, Farid Rached, Youssef Hraoui, Antoine Joseph Karam, Zeina Malaeb, Mounir El Asmar, Yara Abbas

This study investigates the extent to which the popular forms of contract adopted in the Middle East (ME) address collaboration. The purpose of this paper is to assess how…

Managing relationships in large public projects: comparative study of China and Singapore

Yongjian Ke, Florence Y.Y. Ling, Yan Ning, Zhe Zhang

One of the solutions to manage large public projects that are complex and difficult to manage is through relationship management. Although formal and relational approaches have…

Impact of project monitoring and evaluation practices on construction project success criteria in Ghana

Ernest Kissi, Kofi Agyekum, Bernard Kofi Baiden, Reuben Agyei Tannor, George Effah Asamoah, Emmanuel Tweneboah Andam

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of projects is a very important aspect of project execution and management. This is because proper M&E practices have a significant effect on the…

Expansive learning in contemporary construction organisations: An exemplar in BIM-mediated projects

Enoch Sackey, Martin Tuuli, Andrew Dainty

The evolving roles of BIM and smart building technologies in the design and management of construction projects often present unexpected events and variabilities, which tend to…

Training gaps in the adoption of building information modelling by Nigerian construction professionals

Elijah Oluwatosin Oyewole, Joshua Oluwasuji Dada

The opportunities that the building information modeling (BIM) mode of project delivery presents warrant the need for the construction professionals to be adequately trained on…

Entropy of centrality values for topological vulnerability analysis of water distribution networks

Seyed Ashkan Zarghami, Indra Gunawan, Frank Schultmann

The increased complexity of water distribution networks (WDNs) emphasizes the importance of studying the relationship between topology and vulnerability of these networks…

Demand-side energy retrofit potential in existing office buildings

Tharindu Lakruwan Wickremanayake Karunaratne, Nayanthara De Silva

Office buildings confront with the issue of high energy demand during the day time mainly due to heavy use of energy for HVAC and lighting systems. Demand-side energy retrofits…

Life-cycle cost analysis of a short-haul underground freight transportation system for the DFW Airport

Seyed Ehsan Zahed, Sirwan Shahooei, Ferika Farooghi, Mohsen Shahandashti, Siamak Ardekani

The purpose of this paper is to conduct life-cycle cost analysis of a short-haul underground freight transportation (UFT) system for the Dallas Fort Worth international airport.

Lean approach in precast concrete component production

Suryani Ahmad, Robby Soetanto, Chris Goodier

This study applied the lean approach to the reinforcement work process in the component production of industrialised building system precast concrete construction (IBSPCC). The…