...Shuyuan Xu; Jun Wang; Xiangyu Wang; Wenchi Shou; Tuan Ngo Purpose This paper covers the development of a novel defect model for concrete highway bridges. The proposed defect model is intended to facilitate the identification of bridge’s condition information (i.e. defects), improve the efficiency...

...Malindu Sandanayake; Wei Yang; Namita Chhibba; Zora Vrcelj Purpose The issue of building defects is a growing concern that affects all major construction stakeholders as a result of costs and time implications of reworks. The magnitude of the problem is severe with statistics highlighting defects...

...Tony Hopkin; Shu-Ling Lu; Martin Sexton; Phil Rogers Purpose Maximising the benefit of learning from defects is regarded by UK housing associations (HAs) as a key opportunity to meet their challenges of building more homes with reduced government funding and rent incomes. Despite learning from...

... a human error perspective, but applying it to lesser failures in the form of construction defects. An observational study of a 61 unit housing site confirms findings from earlier studies, that managerial factors are important in the occurrence of defects, but also that factors can be linked in a ‘causal...