...Susan Morrow; Billy Hare; Iain Cameron Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider design engineers’ perception of health and safety and its impact on their behaviour during design activity. The study presents three types of design engineers each, exhibiting particular tendencies when...

..., no prior research has considered the perspective from engineering consulting services (ECS) firms. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore the overview and adoption of BIM from the perspective of Malaysian ECS firms, with its objectives first, to determine the perceptions, barriers, governmental...

... process. This, plus its process‐driven approach, suits the context of housing construction and was therefore used for model development in this study. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Customer satisfaction Housing Service quality Expectations Service quality assurance Perception...

... were collected through a survey study of 87 professional construction clients in Sweden. Findings Clients regard the most critical barriers as those attributable to cultural and organisational aspects. The analysis also shows that clients' perceptions of these barriers do not, in fact, affect...

... their perceived importance of PSS appraisal criteria. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire elicited the perceptions of managers regarding the importance of seven generic PSS groupings by reference to six PSS assessment criteria. Data were analysed using (importance and rank) derived...

...Perry Forsythe Purpose To develop a method for measuring consumer‐perceived tolerances concerning the appearance of unitised construction finishes (e.g. tiling, brickwork, paving, jointed façades). Design/methodology/approach Consumer perceptions were converted into physical tolerances...