... ; Jaillon and Poon, 2010 ; Yang and Lim, 2008). Accordingly, it is important for each player to identify prospective issues and set agreeable targets of sustainability prior to schematic design. This process should continue throughout the construction, operation, maintenance and eventually the demolition...

... VP technology in planning construction processes and activities. Martin Skitmore can be contacted at: rm.skitmore@qut.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Construction operations Cranes Simulation Project planning Construction planning Sequencing Mobile cranes Virtual...

... appropriate research approach for data collection seemed to be through surveys (Figure 1). Wafaa Nadim can be contacted at: wafaa.nadim@bue.edu.eg © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Construction industry Construction operations Skills Training Education United Kingdom...

... management Construction operations Construction industry Customer satisfaction Sweden The construction industry has long been criticized for its relationships, with harmful conflicts and disputes, poor collaboration and lack of customer focus and end‐user involvement being prominent issues...

.... Hans Voordijk can be contacted at: j.t.voordijk@utwente.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Communication technologies Construction operations Construction industry Project management The Netherlands In today's construction practice, firms have invested heavily...

.... Originality/value The 3DT model is entirely novel and evolves as a result of this specific study alone. Research methods Construction operations Operations management Decision support systems Construction management research (CMR) can – to varying extents simultaneously – embrace a host...

... will not be completed on time and within budget (Drew and Skitmore, 1997). Defects and remedial work are commonplace and have become accepted phenomena in the local construction culture. Construction industry Construction operations Foundations Pricing Contracts Hong Kong © Emerald Group Publishing...

... questionnaires sent to the participants of the projects, 28 valid responses were obtained. Figure 1 shows the distribution of respondents for each project. Ting Huang can be contacted at: huang.ting@polyu.edu.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Construction operations Project planning...

... Construction operations Earthworks Image processing Work measurement (mechanical) Figure 1 shows the components of the proposed system. As shown in this figure, the proposed system consists of three main modules: 1. data acquisition; 2. data transfer; and 3. data analysis...

... Structural design Construction operations Localization Integration United States of America Denmark Integration has become, in different ways, a topical theme in the desire to improve the performance of architectural engineering and construction (AEC) projects. A typical characteristic...

... for approximately two percent of the £106.8 billion UK construction sector in 2004. Pan et al. (2007) likewise reported that the use of OSM in the UK housing sector was very low, with most top 100 housebuilders rarely using any OSM. Construction industry Construction operations Australia...

... Information transfer Construction operations Rodney A. Stewart can be contacted at: r.stewart@griffith.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Data collection for this study was undertaken from Thai construction professionals in the second quarter of 2005. The target group...

... to the system being modeled. This software product was specifically designed to simulate construction operations and makes use of concepts found in structured query language (SQL) to select resources for operations and aggregate their properties. The flexible and object oriented‐C++ language was used...

... that different levels of the ratio values may provide an indicator of the cost increase to be expected on a project. They analyzed data from competitively bid highway projects in Texas with three or more submitted bids. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Data handling Construction operations...

... and easy to use in construction projects. Construction operations Project planning Decision making The new millennium has seen widespread recognition from research findings and the construction industry itself that the industry must embrace new ways of working if it is to remain...

... at: anders.bjornfot@ltu.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Construction operations Construction equipment Computer aided design Work flow Structural timber Simulation Multi‐storey timber housing construction has in recent years has seen an increase in use on the Swedish construction...

... Construction operations Image processing equipment Cameras Construction industry Malaysia The primary application of close‐range photogrammetry is in industrial manufacturing and facilities management; it therefore supports the import and export of data in standard Computer Aided Design (CAD) formats...