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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Building Construction Projects"”.
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Robust control of cost impact on fast-tracking building construction projects
… manner. A closer observation of the design and construction process reveals that all of the cost-increasing factors in fast-tracking are directly or indirectly related to non value-adding or corrective changes. These changes are mainly attributed to uncertainty that is rooted in the …
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Measures for mitigating the delay in high-rise building construction projects in Dubai
Construction industry faces several challenges such as low labour productivity, cost overrun, time overrun, and extreme weather condition. Globally, the most severe challenge is project delay, particularly in Dubai where the construction industry is booming rapidly than other parts of the world, …
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Complex building construction projects: reducing rework through facilitation of craftspeople’s motivation in United Arab Emirates.
Most construction projects are dominated by schedule and cost overruns. Rework is a major cause, with craftspeople’s behaviour vital to its occurrence. In response to this issue, this study explores reducing rework through facilitation of craftspeople’s motivation. Notably, in the United Arab …
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Risk management system to guide building construction projects’ in developing countries: a case study of Nigeria
… and achieving the technical performance of a building construction project. Construction projects often face a lot of uncertainties, which places building construction projects at the risk of cost, time overruns as well as poor quality delivery. Considering the limited resources of developing …
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No vacancy: explaining the undulation of office building construction projects in Chicago's central business district during the 1970s
… endeavors to explain the absence of office building construction projects in Chicago’s Central Business District between 1976 and 1979. Fourteen office building construction projects were completed between 1970 and 1975 but none during the period studied. Using a socio-spatial perspective to …
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Empirical Analysis of Issue Management in Small Vertical Construction Projects: Relationship between Project Performance, Project Team Actions, and Issue Types
… assets by allocating sizable budgets to small construction projects that renovate or expand upon existing facilities. Small building construction projects are common in the public institutional sector, resulting in cumulative portfolios that are quite sizable for institutions to oversee. Like …
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Potential of cross laminated timber in single family residential construction
… as a structural material for massive timber buildings. CLT is shown to be cost competitive to steel and concrete in large building construction projects, but is seen as uncompetitive for smaller scale projects, especially light frame wood (LFW) residential construction. The purpose of this …
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The Implementation and Effectiveness of Value Engineering in the United Arab Emirates
… United Arab Emirates and is restricted to major building construction projects. The aim of the reasurch is to investigate possible areas of improvement and could potentially enhance the effectiveness of the managent and control of the Value Engineering process, for building construction project …
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Accident causation model for building construction sites
Construction safety at Malaysian building and construction project sites is of utmost importance due to the nature of the construction industry. Workplace safety is a care consideration for all types of organizations or stakeholders. However, statistics shows that safety at project sites is not …
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Modelling Project Complexity for Leadership Decision Making and Success in the Building Construction Industry in Lagos, Nigeria
Construction projects improve the built environment and human civilisation. However, the challenges arising from project complexity in the strategic era of Project Management (PM) have resulted in majority of projects around the world failing to deliver to stakeholders’ satisfaction. Particularly, …
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A framework for evaluating material management performance in Jordanian concrete building projects.
The rapid growth of the construction sector in the Arab region of the Middle East, particular in Jordan, is expected to attract investments worth 21 billion U.S. dollars over the next five years (2012 - 2017). This growth has contributed to the increasing number and types of large-scale projects …
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Efficient water management in building: an approach to promote sustainable building construction in India.
… water (EW) studies globally. The EW of a building is the sum of the amount of water needed to manufacture all the building materials throughout their supply chain (indirect embodied water (IEW)), plus the amount of water needed for the building construction (direct embodied water (DEW)). …
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Investigating project management practice in Nigerian government construction organisations: a systems thinking approach.
… challenges confronting management of government projects in developing countries have been identified in the literature, no significant solution or initiative has been implemented by way of resolving the problem. In Nigeria, public sector projects are activities or projects administered by …