... buildings, where project information is mainly qualitative. Design/methodology/approach Due to the qualitative nature of project information at the pre-conception stage, a natural language processing model, DistilBERT (Distilled Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), was trained...

...Ruochen Zeng; Abdol Chini; Robert Ries Purpose As green building movement is widespread throughout the world, low-energy building becomes the standard. A designer's selection of building systems and materials during early design phase becomes more important. It is essential that designers include...

... and buy-in from key stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to provide a set of levers to improve productivity in the construction sector and develop an implementation schedule. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts a systems approach taking account of the nature of the building sector...

...Associate Professor Monty Sutrisna and Professor Mohan M. Kumaraswamy; Abiola Akanmu; Chimay J. Anumba Purpose – In spite of the benefits of virtual models in the building and construction industry, the full potential of these models, especially in the construction and operation phases, remains...

...Bon-Gang Hwang; Xianbo Zhao; Lene Lay Ghim Tan Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to: investigate schedule performance of new and retrofitting green building projects; identify the critical factors that influence the schedule performance of new and retrofitting green building projects...

...Tarek Zayed; Elsayed Mohamed Purpose – Tight schedules in high-rise building construction force project managers to use the formwork even in a bad weather condition. Insufficient craning, which is typically the bottleneck in construction activities, and lack of space in confined sites make...

...Long D. Nguyen; Hung T. Nguyen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between building floor and labor productivity of the structural work including formwork installation and rebar fabrication/installation. Design/methodology/approach – The case study methodology...

...Per Anker Jensen; Elvar Ingi Jóhannesson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in the Nordic countries of Europe with particular focus on the Danish building industry with the aim of making use of its experience for the Icelandic...

...Bo Xia; Albert P.C. Chan Purpose The aim of this study is to identify complexity measures for building projects in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Design/methodology/approach A three‐round of Delphi questionnaire survey was conducted to identify the key parameters that measure the degree...

...Wei Pan Purpose The UK Government's housing agenda, coupled with the current market conditions, has provided the housebuilding industry with a challenge to build more new homes while improving business efficiency to survive. Although innovation has been claimed as the key to meeting the challenge...

...Florence Yean Yng Ling Purpose The objectives of this paper are to: find out whether design‐bid‐build (DBB) or design‐build (DB) procurement method gives better quality building; identify variables that significantly affect quality scores of DBB and DB projects; and construct models to predict...

... the opportunity to invest in other equally important design tasks. The information entered into the models consists of site‐related information including site access; availability of working space; and speed of erection, and conceptual design information including type of building; number of storeys and gross...

.... Evaluation of the service is informal and there is a relative lack of training and skills development underpinning RM provision. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Risk management Probability calculations Estimation Buildings Monte Carlo simulation Project management As such, the findings...

... and external audits; and increased application of appropriate tools and techniques. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Case studies Buildings Physical planning Construction industry Strategic planning Edum‐Fotwe (1995) demonstrated that, although the construction industry operates within a highly...

... and responsibilities in the construction process were analysed and ranked. Results indicate that the four most important needs are: functionality of the building, safety of the building, quality of the building, and completion time. The four most important clients' responsibilities identified by clients themselves...