item: #1 of 394
          id: ajceb-1581
      author: Sankaran, Shankar
       title: Construction Stakeholder Management
        date: 2010-06-29
       words: 1111
      flesch: 45
     summary: Chapter 3 by Frank Harris provides a historical perspective of stakeholder management including a listing of reports by government and industry on how to improve construction industry performance. Chapter 11 by Abbas Ali Elumualim discusses the role of culture and leadership in stakeholder management covering some theoretical aspects of relationships and power and socio-cultural elements in stakeholder management.
    keywords: book; case; chapter; construction; countries; cover; editors; examples; issues; management; partnering; paul; readers; review; stakeholder; studies; topics; useful
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        item: #2 of 394
          id: ajceb-1582
      author: Madikizela, Kolosa; Haupt, Theo
       title: Influences on Women’s Choices of Careers in Construction: A South African Study
        date: 2010-06-29
       words: 7759
      flesch: 41
     summary: The Impact of Low Representation of Women The responses to two questions related to the impact of the low representation of women on the skills shortage experienced by the construction sector are shown in Table 14. Women tended to believe that legislation such as the Employment Equity Act created the platform for the low representation of women in construction to be addressed.
    keywords: african; australasian; background; beliefs; building; careers; choices; construction; construction economics; construction industry; counterparts; cultural; culture; discrimination; discriminatory; economics; education; employment; environment; equality; equity; experience; females; findings; gender; haupt; image; impact; industry; influences; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; level; likely; low; madikizela; male; management; nature; need; numbers; opportunities; practices; professional; relative; responses; sample; sector; shortage; sites; skills; south; students; study; success; survey; table; total; views; women; work; working; year
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        item: #3 of 394
          id: ajceb-1583
      author: Jarkas, Abdulaziz M
       title: The Effects of Buildability Factors on Rebar Fixing Labour Productivity of Beamless Slabs
        date: 2010-06-29
       words: 9287
      flesch: 22
     summary: Abstract Buildability is an important factor affecting labour productivity. The findings show a significant influence of these factors on the fixing operation, which can be used to provide designers and construction managers with feedback on how well the design of this activity considers the requirements of buildability, and the tangible consequences of designers’ decisions on labour productivity.
    keywords: activity; analysis; asce; associated; australasian; australasian journal; average; bars; beamless; beamless slabs; buildability; buildability factors; buildable; building; characteristic; coefficient; concrete; constructability; construction; construction economics; data; design; diameter; difference; dundee; economics; effects; encountered; engineering; equation; factors; fixing; geometry; independent; industry; influence; inputs; interaction; jarkas; journal; labour productivity; large; layer; level; level rebar; location; macro; management; measurement; method; model; non; observation; observed; operation; overall; positive; projects; quantity; rebar; rebar diameter; rebar fixing; rectangular; rectangular slabs; regression; reinforcement; reinforcement quantity; relationship; relative; research; results; sites; slabs; steel; study; table; total; university; value; variable; work
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        item: #4 of 394
          id: ajceb-1584
      author: Belusko, Martin; O'Leary, Timothy
       title: Cost Analyses of Measures to Improve Residential Energy Ratings to 6 Stars - Playford North Development, South Australia
        date: 2010-07-05
       words: 5470
      flesch: 45
     summary: Updated Star Rating with Technology Option Lot Foil in roof R2.5 ext walls R4 roof R1.5 internal walls Low E glass in living zone 16 5.2 5.4 5.6 5.9 6.4 17 5.1 5.2 5.2 5.4 5.6 23 6 6.1 6.3 6.4 6.7 26 6.1 6.3 6.5 6.6 6.8 13 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.3 29 5.2 5.4 5.4 5.4 6.1 184 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.6 6.2 45 5.4 5.6 5.8 6 6.6 901 5.3 5.4 5.6 6 6.6 8 5.5 5.6 5.6 5.8 6.5 902 5.7 5.8 5.8 6.1 6.6 194 5.1 5.1 5.2 5.4 6 Table 3 Cumulative star rating impact of each technology measure for each lot Star Rating Increase with Technology Option Lot Foil in roof R2.5 ext walls R4 roof R1.5 internal walls Low E glass in living zone 16 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.5 17 0.2 0.1 0 0.2 0.2 23 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.3 26 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 13 0.3 0.1 0.1 0 0.4 29 0.3 0.2 0 0 0.7 184 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.6 45 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.6 901 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.6 8 0.2 0.1 0 0.2 0.7 902 0.3 0.1 0 0.3 0.5 194 0.2 0 0.1 0.2 0.6 Average 0.24 0.13 0.11 0.18 0.49 Table 4 Incremental increase of star rating (rounded to one decimal) by impact of each technology measure for each lot Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Belusko, M and O’Leary, T  (2010)  As shown in Table 3 the application of these measures delivers varying increases in star rating often well above 6 stars.
    keywords: 36‐47; analyses; area; australasian; australia; average; base; belusko; builders; building; bulk; construction; cooling; cost; design; development; economics; efficiency; energy; floor; foil; glass; glazed; glazing; heating; higher; home; house; housing; increase; insulation; internal; journal; living; lot; low; measures; north; options; o’leary; performance; playford; rating; residential; roof; single; south; star; star rating; study; table; technology; thermal; total; typical; volume; wall; windows; zone
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        item: #5 of 394
          id: ajceb-1587
      author: Pullen, Stephen; Arman, Michael; Zillante, George; Zuo, Jian; Chileshe, Nicholas; Wilson, Lou
       title: Developing an Assessment Framework for Affordable and Sustainable Housing
        date: 2010-07-02
       words: 8250
      flesch: 26
     summary: Arman et al. (2009b) reviewed a variety of definitions of affordability, affordable housing, sustainability and sustainable housing and arrived at a conceptual definition of affordable and sustainable housing: Oct 2009, Nanjing, China Zillante, G., Pullen, S., Wilson, L., Davidson, K., Chileshe, N., Zuo, J. and Arman, M. (forthcoming) ‘Integrating affordable housing and sustainable housing: bridging two merit goods in Australia’, In Wallis, I., Bilan, L., Smith, M. and Kazi, A.S. (Ed.)
    keywords: acceptability; adaptability; affordability; affordable; affordable housing; approach; arman; assessment; assessment framework; associated; australasian; australasian journal; australia; background; building; building pullen; challenges; characteristics; communities; community; components; construction; construction economics; costs; davidson; density; department; design; developed; development; discussion; dwelling; economics; efficiency; energy; environmental; et al; example; following; forum; framework; government; green; group; homes; housing; income; indicators; industry; integrated; interim; issues; journal; key; land; literature; living; local; low; materials; measures; methods; national; need; new; outcomes; paper; participants; performance; policy; possible; product; project; pullen; rating; report; research; size; social; study; sustainability; sustainability assessment; sustainable; sustainable housing; systems; terms; time; urban; use; water; yates
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        item: #6 of 394
          id: ajceb-1589
      author: Soo, Alexander; Oo, Bee
       title: The Effect of Information Feedback in Construction Bidding
        date: 2010-07-05
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
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        item: #7 of 394
          id: ajceb-1591
      author: Ng, Andy K.W; Price, Andrew D.F
       title: Optimizing the Time Performance of Subcontractors in Building Projects
        date: 2010-07-02
       words: 5602
      flesch: 42
     summary: Time performance = a + b1SCP1 + b2SCP2+ b3SCP3+ b4SCP4+ b5SCP5+ b6SCP6 Where SCPi (critical site coordination problems) are the independent variables Time performance is the dependent variable a is a constant which is the y-intercept bi is the partial regression coefficient for SCP Equation 1: Form of multiple regression equation Some of the variables of the regression equations can be eliminated without having significant impact to the accuracy of the regression equations. Keywords: Subcontractor, Site coordination problem, Time performance Introduction Subcontracting Subcontracting is very important to the Hong Kong construction industry as labour-only subcontractors and fee subcontractors contributed 24 per cent and 42 per cent of the gross value of construction work performed in 2008, according to government statistics.
    keywords: absolute; analysis; australasian; building; coefficients; construction; coordination; correlation; critical; data; economics; elimination; equation; final; hong; independent; journal; kong; main; management; model; multiple; network; neural; performance; price; problems; projects; regression; scp1; scp2; scp3; scp4; scp5; scp6; site; site coordination; square; stage; structural; subcontractors; table; time; time performance; type; values; variables; work
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        item: #8 of 394
          id: ajceb-1592
      author: Fugar, Frank DK; Agyakwah-Baah, Adwoa B
       title: Delays in Building Construction Projects in Ghana
        date: 2010-07-05
       words: 6626
      flesch: 41
     summary: The literature is replete with studies of construction delays and their negative impact on project success and company performance (Couto and Teixeira, 2007). Construction delay is a major problem facing the Ghanaian construction industry.
    keywords: action; agyakwah‐baah; assaf; australasian; building; building fugar; causes; certificates; changes; clients; completion; conditions; construction; construction delay; construction economics; construction projects; consultants; contractors; controlling; cost; credit; data; delay; delay factors; design; economics; equipment; factors; financial; financing; fugar; ghana; government; group; important; index; industry; journal; labour; literature; major; management; materials; owner; parties; payment; poor; problems; professional; projects; rank; relative; respondents; rii; scheduling; shortage; site; study; time; underestimation; unskilled; variations; weather
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        item: #9 of 394
          id: ajceb-1593
      author: Lateef, Olanrewaju Abdul; Khamidi, Mohd Faris; Idrus, Arazi
       title: Building Maintenance Management in a Malaysian University Campus: A Case Study
        date: 2010-07-05
       words: 7997
      flesch: 45
     summary: The word “model” in the research is synonymous with the decision-making framework or guidelines for managing university buildings maintenance. However, discussions with those concerned in the management of university building maintenance revealed a concern about the amount of funding universities wish to have compared to the amount of funding they are actually receiving.
    keywords: 76‐89; activities; agreement; allocation; approach; assets; assistant; australasian; budget; building; building maintenance; campuses; case; case study; civil; complaints; construction; construction economics; contractors; control; corrective; cyclical; data; department; design; different; docket; economics; education; electrical; engineering; equipment; executive; facilities; figure; functions; government; higher; idrus; increase; information; instance; journal; khamidi; lateef; learning; maintenance; maintenance management; major; malaysia; management; mechanical; ministry; new; old; organization; outsourcing; paper; performance; plan; price; procedures; public; quality; research; review; satisfaction; sector; services; source; staff; students; study; system; table; technicians; time; unit; universities; university; university building; user; value; work; working; years
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        item: #10 of 394
          id: ajceb-1594
      author: de Valence, Gerard
       title: Defining an Industry: What is the Size and Scope of the Australian Building and Construction Industry
        date: 2010-07-05
       words: 6106
      flesch: 51
     summary: These include the regulatory, institutional and technological structures in a framework for construction industry firms. By Gerard de Valence The Australian Journal of Construction Economics & Building Page 63 development and refinement of construction industry policy in Australia, with a range of State and Commonwealth agencies involved.
    keywords: abs; activity; aegis; analysis; approach; australian; australian building; australian journal; b&c; building; businesses; carassus; cat; chain; clients; cluster; competition; construction; construction economics; construction industry; data; design; development; economics; employment; engineering; equipment; facilities; firms; gerard; income; industries; industry; innovation; journal; large; management; markets; materials; multimedia; new; non; number; output; page; performance; policy; production; products; project; range; related; residential; residential building; scale; scope; sector; services; site; size; source; structure; supplies; system; table; tools; total; types; valence; work
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        item: #11 of 394
          id: ajceb-1595
      author: Sundquist, Jan
       title: From Focus on Price to the Pyramid of Innovation, Information, Cooperation, Value and Trust: A Success Story of Five Swedish Building Material Manufacturers
        date: 2010-07-05
       words: 7079
      flesch: 58
     summary: The MD has also extended his thinking to include other companies in order to discuss mutual tenders from a combined group of companies, whose tender to the customer would be reinforced concrete poured into a mould with reinforcement mounted and all that is required. Through the engagement of a university, the company and its offerings will probably be regarded as being more respected and trustworthy than other companies without those contacts.
    keywords: administration; australasian; building; companies; company; concrete; construction; contractors; cooperation; customer; development; directors; economics; elements; employees; estate; examples; focus; ideas; important; information; innovation; interviews; journal; knowledge; long; management; manufacturers; market; material; means; new; partner; people; planning; price; processes; products; real; reinforcement; research; sector; services; study; sundqvist; table; term; thinking; trust; turnover; university; use; values; vision; vol; way; work; year
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        item: #12 of 394
          id: ajceb-1602
      author: Ameh, John Oko; Odusami, Koleola Tunwase
       title: Nigerian Building Professionals’ Ethical Ideology and Perceived Ethical Judgement
        date: 2010-10-28
       words: 6696
      flesch: 32
     summary: ‗A General Theory of Marketing Ethics‘, Journal of Macromarketing , 8, 5–16 Johnson, R. N. (2003) ‗An overview of ethical theory‘, Available [on-line] http://www.nwmissouri.edu/rfield/274, accessed 24/06/03 Lee, D. J. and Sirgy, M. J. (1999) ‗The effect of ethical ideology and ethnocentrism on quality of life orientation in international marketing: a cross cultural comparison‘, Journal of Business Ethics, 18, 73-89 Marques, P. A. and Pereira, J. A. (2009) ‗Ethical ideology and ethical judgments in the Portuguese accounting profession‘, Journal of Business Ethics, 86, 227-242 Monga, M. (2001) ‗Ethics and ethical ideologies: an empirical study of managers in North Indian large manufacturing enterprises‘, Proceedings of Australian association of professional and applied ethics, Adelaide, September Rawwas, M.Y.A and Patzer, G.L. (1995) ‗Consumer ethics in cross-cultural settings entrepreneurial implications‘, European Journal of Marketing, 29(7), 62-78 Redfern, K. (2005) ‗The influence of industrialisation on ethical ideology of managers in the people‘s republic of china‘, Cross Cultural Management, 12(2), 38-50 Robb, D. J. (1996) ‗Ethics in project management: issues, practice, and motives‘. Keywords: Professional, building industry, ethical ideology, ethical judgement, Nigeria Introduction Corrupt practices are found in every phase of the procurement of building projects - during planning and design, in the award of contracts, during the construction process, and post construction stage including maintenance of completed projects.
    keywords: absolutists; action; ameh; approach; australasian; australasian journal; behaviour; building; building ameh; building industry; building professionals; business; consequences; construction; construction economics; consultancy; contracting; decision; different; duties; economics; ethical; ethical ideology; ethical judgement; ethics; experience; factors; forsyth; forsyth‘s; groups; high; idealism; ideologies; ideology; individual; industry; industry professionals; influence; issues; j.o; journal; judgement; judgments; k.t; likert; low; making; management; managers; marketing; moral; nigerian; nigerian building; odusami; organisations; person; philosophy; population; position; principles; procurement; professionals; projects; relativism; research; respondents; right; rules; sample; scale; situation; situationists; study; table; taxonomy; unethical; years
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        item: #13 of 394
          id: ajceb-1660
      author: Forsythe, Perry John
       title: Drivers of Housing Demolition Decision Making and the Impact on Timber Waste Management
        date: 2011-03-31
       words: 7655
      flesch: 38
     summary: For instance a recent study in Australia concerning extended producer responsibility (Infield 2007) indicates that the percentage of timber construction waste available for recovery is as high as 71% in Australia, 80% in the UK and 44% in the US. Despite the scale of the problem the nature of timber waste from demolition projects (i.e. including dirt and unseparated materials) makes it hard to efficiently recover from demolition projects.
    keywords: approach; australasian; australasian journal; australia; building; cartage; case; chain; common; construction; construction economics; cost; crunch; data; decision; decision making; demolishers; demolition; demolition decision; demolition waste; development; different; drivers; dump; economics; environmental; et al; factors; feedstock; forsythe; high; higher; housing; housing demolition; impact; income; instance; journal; landfill; low; making; management; manual; market; materials; means; miscellaneous; model; need; onsite; poon; potential; process; processes; project; recovered; recovery; recycling; research; resources; result; reuse; safety; salvage; scale; significant; site; specific; stock; studies; study; supply; terms; timber; timber recovery; timber waste; time; type; use; value; value timber; waste; waste management; waste recovery; way; wood; work
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        item: #14 of 394
          id: ajceb-1675
      author: Best, Rick
       title: Using Purchasing Power Parity to Assess Construction Productivity
        date: 2010-12-16
       words: 5452
      flesch: 44
     summary: One key problem is that of converting construction costs to a common currency. The average cost of the BLOC in each city was the used to produce CPPPs that could be used to convert construction costs in different currencies to a common base with price differences removed, thus producing “real” rather than “nominal” exchange rates.
    keywords: australasian; average; bank; basket; best; bloc; blocks; brisbane; building; cities; common; comparison; construction; construction costs; construction economics; construction productivity; cost; currencies; currency; data; differences; different; economics; equivalents; eurostat; hotel; identical; index; industry; input; international; item; journal; labour; local; locations; management; materials; method; new; number; output; parity; phoenix; power; ppp; price; productivity; project; purchasing; quantities; rates; relative; required; similar; supply; sydney; table; use
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        item: #15 of 394
          id: ajceb-1680
      author: Dobgegah, Rockson; Owusu-Manu, De-Graft; Omoteso, Kamil
       title: A Principal Component Analysis of Project Management Construction Industry Competencies for the Ghanaian
        date: 2011-03-31
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
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    keywords: bad
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        item: #16 of 394
          id: ajceb-1681
      author: Abdul-Lateef, Olanrewaju Ashola
       title: Quantitative Analysis of Criteria in University Building Maintenance in Malaysia
        date: 2010-10-28
       words: 6010
      flesch: 42
     summary: The remainder of the paper is structured as follows; An overview of the relevant literature concerning university building maintenance; discussion of the research and data analysis methodology adopted; presentation and discussion of data analysis; major findings and conclusions. Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Olanrewaju, A A (2010) ‘Quantitative analysis of criteria in university building maintenance in Malaysia’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 10 (3) 51-61 52 Literature Review and Background Education is a very significant and integral part of the Malaysian Strategic Thrust.
    keywords: analysis; australasian; australasian journal; building; building maintenance; building olanrewaju; communication; components; construction; construction economics; costs; criteria; data; delivery; design; development; economics; education; expectations; facilities; government; higher; influence; influential; information; issue; journal; knowledge; lack; maintenance; maintenance management; malaysia; management; managers; materials; mean; olanrewaju; order; organizations; paper; performance; problems; productivity; public; quality; quantitative; questionnaire; research; respondents; response; satisfaction; score; sector; service; staff; study; survey; table; time; total; universities; university; university building; user
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        item: #17 of 394
          id: ajceb-1688
      author: Gharaie, Ehsan; Wakefield, Ron; Blismas, Nick
       title: Explaining the Increase in the Australian Average House Completion Time:Activity-based versus Workflow-based Approach
        date: 2010-12-16
       words: 7198
      flesch: 57
     summary: Keywords: Average house completion time, Australian house building industry, Activity-based planning, Work-flow-based planning Introduction Completion time of a construction project is always a major concern for all stakeholders. The trend of The completion time and number of completions (Vic) 1.5 1.7 1.9 2.1 2.3 2.5 2.7 2.9 2000.1 2001.1 2002.1 2003.1 2004.1 2005.1 2006.1 2007.1 2008.1 Time C o m p le ti o n T im e ( q u a rt e rs ) 0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 Q u a rt e rl y N u m b e r o f C o m p le ti o n s Completion time Number of Completions Figure 1: Average house completion time and quarterly number of completions in Victoria Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Gharaie, E et al.
    keywords: activity; area; australasian; australia; australian average; australian house; average completion; average floor; average house; building; building industry; case; completion time; completions; construction; construction economics; correlation; economics; figure; floor; house building; house completion; house floor; houses; increase; industry; journal; methods; number; o n; planning; planning methods; production; rate; south; state; time average; trend; workflow
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        item: #18 of 394
          id: ajceb-1712
      author: Ting, Michael
       title: Building on Shaky Ground: Quality and Safety in China’s Construction Industry in the Wake of the Wenchuan and Yushu Earthquakes
        date: 2010-10-28
       words: 7804
      flesch: 41
     summary: In a speech introducing a conference on building codes, the Vice Premier of China, Mr Zeng Peiyan, stated that construction investment was very important for China’s economic growth and he hoped that China could improve construction standards and the legal system (National Work Conference for Fixed Construction Standards 2007). This staggering amount of regulation highlights the great potential for confusion of construction standards.
    keywords: adequate; article; australasian; australasian journal; australia; bca; builders; building; building codes; building standards; building ting; china; chinese; code; compliance; conference; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction law; construction projects; construction standards; december; design; development; disaster; earthquakes; enforcement; engineering; government; greater; ground; growth; housing; international; issues; journal; lack; large; law; laws; legislative; ministry; mohurd; national; notice; order; people; performance; policy; practices; projects; provisions; quality; reform; regulation; regulatory; republic; requirements; residential; residential construction; rural; safety; sector; seismic; shaky; standards; state; supervision; survey; ting; urban; wake; wenchuan; work; years; yushu; yushu earthquakes
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        item: #19 of 394
          id: ajceb-1751
      author: Tam, Vivian W. Y.; Zhang, Xiaoling; Lee, Winnie; Shen, LY
       title: Applications of Extensive Green-roof Systems in Contributing to Sustainable Development in Densely Populated Cities: a Hong Kong Study
        date: 2011-03-31
       words: 5264
      flesch: 44
     summary: The application of extensive green roofs on existing buildings has been recommended in Hong Kong since 2001. Although a green roof system has been introduced and adopted in Hong Kong since 2001, the emphasis is mainly given to the application of intensive green roofs for podium gardens instead of extensive green roofs.
    keywords: agree; air; applications; area; australasian; benefits; building; cities; constraints; construction; cost; council; design; developers; development; different; economics; existing; extensive; extensive green; government; green; green roof; hong; hong kong; implementation; improved; increase; intensive; journal; kong; lack; layer; limited; maintenance; major; plants; populated; public; respondents; roof; roof systems; rowe; structural; study; sustainable; systems; table; tam; urban; urbis
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        item: #20 of 394
          id: ajceb-1796
      author: Liu, Junxiao; London, Kerry
       title: Convergence Among the Submarkets in Australian Regional Building and Construction Sector
        date: 2010-12-16
       words: 8864
      flesch: 43
     summary: Owing to a simultaneously dramatic increase in the construction prices of the sub-markets in the building construction sector in Australia, this paper aims to identify the convergence among these markets, involving house construction market, other- residential building construction market, and non-residential building construction market. (2010) identifies this point and investigates the long-run relationship between house construction markets across Australia’s six states and two territories.
    keywords: -3.51; australasian; australasian journal; australia; australian regional; building construction; building liu; capital; causality; cause; changes; cointegration; construction; construction economics; construction markets; construction output; construction prices; construction sector; convergence; deviation; effect; error; granger; house; house construction; housing; hppi; intercept; journal; level; liu; london; markets; model; new; non; northern; orbppi; output; prices; regional; regional building; research; residential building; response; results; ripple; run; south; standard; states; studies; study; sub; territory; test; trend; variables; vecm; vector; victoria; wales; western;  ;  
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        item: #21 of 394
          id: ajceb-1803
      author: Kay, Robert
       title: Australia’s Crisis of Uncertainty
        date: 2010-10-28
       words: 2114
      flesch: 47
     summary: Often built around the use of best practice studies all designed to provide knowledge on how to achieve increased certainty of outcome. Many organisations pursue a policy of hiring for and promoting the best and brightest staff they can get their hands on.
    keywords: australasian; australia; best; building; certainty; consequence; construction; crisis; economics; effectiveness; efficiency; executives; focus; innovation; journal; management; market; new; organisation; performance; processes; response; risk; short; term; uncertain
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        item: #22 of 394
          id: ajceb-1804
      author: Coggins, Jeremy; Fenwick Elliott, Robert; Bell, Matthew
       title: Towards Harmonisation of Construction Industry Payment Legislation: A Consideration of the Success Afforded by the East and West Coast Models in Australia
        date: 2010-10-28
       words: 14737
      flesch: 41
     summary: Thus, whether such is the intent or not, the Northern Territory is the only place in Australia where the construction of underground works is covered by the security of payment Act. Introduction Over the past decade construction industry payments legislation (the „legislation‟) has been progressively passed on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis throughout Australia.
    keywords: act; act act; act s; adjudication; adjudicator‟s; administrative; application; approach; australasian; australasian journal; australia; basis; brett; building; building coggins; business; case; claimant; claims; coast; coast acts; coast legislation; coast model; coggins; commission; consideration; construction; construction contracts; construction economics; construction industry; construction law; construction work; contractor; contractual; costs; court; damages; date; davenport; days; determination; differences; dispute; dispute resolution; east coast; example; form; goldberg; harmonisation; industry payment; industry security; issues; journal; judgments; jurisdiction; justice; key; law; legal; legislation; limited; litigation; ltd; models; national; new; nsw act; nswca; nswsc; opportunity; outcomes; parameters; particular; parties; party; payment; payment act; payment claim; payment dispute; payment legislation; payment schedule; payment system; present; procedural; process; processes; provisions; pty; pty ltd; queensland; reasons; relation; resolution; respect; respondent; response; review; right; satisfaction; scheme; scope; second; section; security; services; set; significant; south; statutory; substantive; success; system; time; total; ury; victorian; wa act; way; west; works; year
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        item: #23 of 394
          id: ajceb-1805
      author: Davenport, Philip
       title: Harmonisation of Chalk and Cheese
        date: 2010-10-28
       words: 9057
      flesch: 51
     summary: The Authors point out that the East Cost model only allows payment claim to be made up the ‘contractual stream’. The Authors say that in WA the total value of payment claims in 2008/2009 was approximately $36 million.
    keywords: act; adjudication; adjudicators; ana; application; australasian; australasian journal; authors; building; building davenport; case; certifier; chalk; cheese; claimant; claims; coast model; construction; construction contract; construction economics; construction industry; construction work; contractor; contractual; court; davenport; dispute; dual; east coast; goods; harmonisation; journal; justice; legislation; litigation; nsw; nsw act; parties; party; payment; payment claim; payment schedule; process; progress payment; queensland; reason; resolution; respondent; right; scheme; services; success; time; wa act; west; work; writer
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        item: #24 of 394
          id: ajceb-1810
      author: Sawhney, Anil
       title: Managing Performance in Construction
        date: 2010-10-28
       words: 1161
      flesch: 40
     summary: However, little renewed attention has been paid to the development of new tools, models, methods and approaches for measuring construction performance at the workface level. Chapter ten presents the importance of communication and communication systems for improving construction performance.
    keywords: authors; book; chain; chapter; communication; concept; construction; important; input; level; management; managing; measurement; modelling; output; performance; process; productivity; projects; sector; simulation; supply; topic; view
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        item: #25 of 394
          id: ajceb-1811
      author: DAB
       title: Responsible Logistics Systems, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Vol
        date: 2010-10-26
       words: 6669
      flesch: 45
     summary: By structuring the two main styles: networks and organizing, so that that are seen as learning possibilities and by giving them higher priority are two ways to increase construction project learning possibilities. Little has been written about project organization learning involving multiple companies and professions with widely differing learning behaviors.
    keywords: actors; architects; building; clients; common; companies; company; construction; construction projects; contract; courses; culture; designers; different; difficulties; e.g.; example; following; foreman; general; good; groups; hvac; individual; industry; information; interaction; interviews; journal; knowledge; learning; limited; literature; main; management; managers; materials; medium; meetings; methods; mistakes; need; networks; new; organizational; organizational learning; organizing; personal; possibilities; possibility; practical; problems; professions; project; project co; research; sage; single; site; study; tasks; technical; trade; understanding; usa; vol; way; workers
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        item: #26 of 394
          id: ajceb-1817
      author: Onukwube, Henry Ndubuisi; Iyagba, Reuben
       title: Construction Professionals Job Performance and Characteristics: A Comparison of Indigenous and Expatriate Construction Companies in Nigeria
        date: 2011-06-20
       words: 6716
      flesch: 31
     summary: Thus, it is important to study the job characteristics–job performance relationship at the facet level because it is plausible that due to the multidimensional nature of job characteristics and job performance, there are differential relationships between facets of job characteristics and dimensions of performance. Meta-analyses of the relationship between job characteristics and job performance have reported a wide range of results between overall job characteristics and overall job performance.
    keywords: australasian; autonomy; behaviour; building; comparison; construction; construction companies; construction economics; construction professionals; design; difference; dimensions; empirical; employees; engineers; error; et al; expatriate construction; facets; feedback; humphrey; identity; indigenous; indigenous construction; iyagba; job characteristics; job performance; journal; level; morgeson; nigeria; objective; onukwube; organizational; overall; overall job; overall task; performance; performance relationship; positive; previous; professionals job; psychology; related; relationship; research; respondents; results; role; significant; skill; standard; std; studies; study; subjective task; table; task performance; task significance; variables; variety; work; years
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        item: #27 of 394
          id: ajceb-1841
      author: Tran, Van Dai; Tookey, John E
       title: Labour Productivity in the New Zealand Construction Industry: A Thorough Investigation
        date: 2011-03-31
       words: 7832
      flesch: 43
     summary: These sectors, and their associated extraneous variables, provided some useful information in relation to the “real” performance of NZ construction labour productivity. The formulated objectives for the research are stated as follows: i) To re-examine existing studies on labour productivity in NZ construction; ii) To identify factors which have significant effects on construction labour productivity; iii) To set up a platform for future research in this area in NZ Defining Productivity Productivity was formally defined by the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation as: “the quotient obtained by dividing output by one of the factors of production.
    keywords: analysis; australasian; australasian journal; average; building; building tran; capital; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction labour; construction sector; costs; data; demand; department; economics; economy; effects; employment; factors; figure; growth; house; housing; increases; index; industries; industry; inflation; infrastructure; investigation; journal; labour; labour productivity; market; material; measure; multifactor; new; new zealand; non; number; observed; output; overall; performance; period; previous; prices; productivity; productivity growth; rate; research; residential; results; sector; series; services; significant; snz; source; statistics; studies; study; sub; thorough; time; tookey; tran; university; value; wellington; work; workers; year; zealand; zealand construction
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        item: #28 of 394
          id: ajceb-1883
      author: de Valence, Geard
       title: Innovation, Procurement and Construction Industry Development
        date: 2010-12-16
       words: 5803
      flesch: 33
     summary: Conclusion Tatum‟s (1986, 1989) characteristics of the construction industry represent a widely applied model of construction industry innovation. Abstract The implications for analysis of innovation in construction of theoretical developments in industrial organisation are considered in this research, as an attempt to outline a new approach to construction innovation incorporating the ideas found in knowledge based, technology centred models.
    keywords: australasian; baa; building; change; characteristics; clients; competition; complex; concentration; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction innovation; craig; design; development; differences; economics; externalities; factors; firms; gann; growth; heathrow; high; industries; industry; industry development; innovation; intensity; investment; journal; knowledge; level; low; management; market; methods; new; number; opportunity; process; procurement; products; project; r&d; research; sales; scope; share; spending; structure; sutton; tatum; technological; technologies; technology; tendering; terminal; theory; traditional; valence
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        item: #29 of 394
          id: ajceb-1884
      author: Karamujic, Harry M
       title: An Investigation into the Fundamental Drivers of Pricing of Residential Mortgage Products – A Risk Pricing Viewpoint
        date: 2010-12-16
       words: 7884
      flesch: 44
     summary: In its pure form the total of credit risk 11 , market risk 12 , operational risk 13 , interest rate risk in the banking book 14 and business risk 15 capital is referred to as “risk capital”. Consequently, the product level gross amount of risk capital required is 9 per cent multiplied by the outstanding loan amount.
    keywords: accords; adequacy; analysis; apra; assets; australasian; australasian journal; banking; banks; basel; bbyc; bis; building; calculation; capital; cent; charge; coc; cof; construction; construction economics; corporate; cost; credit; drivers; economics; example; exposure; fees; financial; following; fundamental; funds; future; general; gfc; gross; home; home loan; iii; interest; investigation; journal; june; karamujic; lender‟s; lending; level; liquidity; llp; loan; loan pricing; loss; losses; margin; market; methodology; minimum; mortgage; paper; particular; portfolio; price; pricing; pricing viewpoint; products; provisioning; provisions; rate; regulatory; required; residential; risk; risk capital; risk pricing; specific; standards; technique; term; time; total; viewpoint
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        item: #30 of 394
          id: ajceb-1885
      author: McGeorge, Denny
       title: Managing Construction Logistics
        date: 2010-12-16
       words: 876
      flesch: 54
     summary: Section 3 contains a chapter on the future of construction logistics followed by a chapter containing a number of case studies. In fact, I read some parts of this publication with almost a guilty pleasure worrying as to whether the serious and worthy topic of managing construction logistics should be so enjoyable.
    keywords: book; case; chapter; construction; design; fact; industry; interest; logistics; management; review; stephen; text
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        item: #31 of 394
          id: ajceb-1886
      author: Davenport, Philip
       title: Practical Guide to Engineering and Construction Contracts
        date: 2010-12-16
       words: 2143
      flesch: 45
     summary: Under the heading „Objectives of this book‟ the authors say, „This book is intended to provide a concise but accurate guide to the law relating to construction contracts in Australia as at 2009. It is intended for the use of engineers (and others) who are involved in the negotiation and administration of construction contracts to enable them to understand the risks involved, and how to minimise them‟.
    keywords: authors; book; building; certificate; clause; construction; contractor; damages; engineer; final; issue; law; legislation; payment; principal; reasonable; role; security; superintendent; time; work
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        item: #32 of 394
          id: ajceb-1939
      author: Coggins, Jeremy
       title: From Disparity to Harmonisation of Construction Industry Payment Legislation in Australia: A Proposal for a Dual Process of Adjudication based upon Size of Progress Payment Claim
        date: 2011-06-20
       words: 15425
      flesch: 32
     summary: ‘From disparity to harmonisation of construction industry payment legislation in Australia: a proposal for a dual process of adjudication based upon size of progress payment claim’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 11 (2) 34-59 35 Jurisdiction Legislation Date of Commencement NSW Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 26 March 2000 Victoria Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 31 January 2003 Queensland Building and Construction Industry Payments Act 2004 1 October 2004 Western Australia Construction Contracts Act 2004 1 January 2005 Northern Territory Construction Contracts (Security of Payments) Act 2004 1 July 2005 Tasmania Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2009 17 December 2009 ACT Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2009 1 July 2010 South Australia Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2009 ‘From disparity to harmonisation of construction industry payment legislation in Australia: a proposal for a dual process of adjudication based upon size of progress payment claim’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 11 (2) 34-59 36 Finally, building upon the Davenport and Bailey proposals, a third proposal for harmonisation is proffered by the author.
    keywords: act; adjudication; adjudication application; adjudication process; adjudication response; adjudicator‟s; agency; application; approach; australasian; australasian journal; australia; authority; building; building coggins; business; case; chain; claimant; claims; coast; coast adjudication; coast legislation; coast model; coast process; coggins; complex; construction; construction contracts; construction economics; construction industry; construction law; construction work; contract; contractors; contractual; contractual payment; court; damages; date; davenport; days; defence; determination; disparity; dispute; dual payment; dual process; east coast; fees; freedom; harmonisation; industry payment; journal; justice; larger; law; litigation; ltd; model legislation; models; nature; nsw; nsw act; nswsc; order; parties; party; payment; payment act; payment claim; payment legislation; payment schedule; payment system; period; prescribed; procedural; proceedings; process; progress payment; proposal; provisions; pty; queensland; reasons; related; resolution; respect; respondent; response; scheme; scope; second; security; services; set; significant; size; small; statutory; statutory adjudication; statutory payment; system; time; value; wa act; website; west; work
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        item: #33 of 394
          id: ajceb-1996
      author: Kaewsri, Nuanthip; Tonghong, Tanit
       title: An Investigation of Women Engineers in Non-Traditional Occupations in the Thai Construction Industry
        date: 2011-06-20
       words: 10841
      flesch: 40
     summary: Abstract For over a decade, the public and the private sectors have carried out research aimed at attracting women engineers to the construction industry and retaining them. This paper aims to examine the experiences of women engineers in non-traditional careers and the implications for their employment turnover.
    keywords: advancement; australasian; australasian journal; average; building; career; cent; civil; civil engineers; company; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contractor companies; contractor non; counterparts; dainty; data; difficulties; economics; employment; engineering; equality; experience; family; female; fewer; figure; firms; guidelines; harassment; higher; highest; important; industry; investigation; jobs; journal; kaewsri; knowledge; level; male; management; mean; non; number; occupations; opportunities; path; positions; problems; professional; project; reasons; recognition; research; sexual; site; study; subordinates; superiors; table; thai; thai construction; thailand; time; tongthong; total; traditional; turnover; women engineers; working; workplaces; years
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        item: #34 of 394
          id: ajceb-2009
      author: Brewer, Graham
       title: Responsible Corporate Strategy in Construction and Engineering. Doing the Right Thing?
        date: 2011-03-31
       words: 547
      flesch: 44
     summary: It is often said that the practice of management in the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector is highly derivative, that attempts to distinguish it as a separate and distinct area of professional practice are erroneous, and that the best prescription for its low productivity is to imitate best practice from the manufacturing industry – Egan can't be wrong, can he? Arguably the most important feature of this book is that the first four chapters are followed by a fifth, containing nine case studies of AEC organisations.
    keywords: aec; authors; book; case; construction; corporate; csr; engineering; industry; loosemore; practice; review
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        item: #35 of 394
          id: ajceb-2106
      author: Baroudi, Bassam Michael; Metcalfe, Mike
       title: A Human Perspective of Contractor Prequalification
        date: 2011-06-20
       words: 6370
      flesch: 35
     summary: The rationale behind contractor prequalification appears valid however the above suggests that many experts believe that prequalification systems still harbour significant problems. Sifting through their respective experiences allowed for an alternative view of contractor prequalification systems, a very human perspective to emerge.
    keywords: aspects; australasian; australasian journal; baroudi; behaviour; better; building; businesses; client; communications; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contractor; contractor prequalification; criteria; decision; depth; design; development; economics; engineering; environment; example; findings; good; greater; holt; human; ideas; important; industry; information; innovation; interviewees; issues; journal; literature; management; metcalfe; need; number; palaneeswaran; past; people; perspective; points; prequalification; prequalification systems; prequalifier; process; project; public; qualitative; relationships; research; respect; sector; selection; smith; soft; stakeholders; systems; thinking; thought; university; use; view; way
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        item: #36 of 394
          id: ajceb-2120
      author: Durdyev, Serdar; Mbachu, Jasper
       title: On-site Labour Productivity of New Zealand Construction Industry: Key Constraints and Improvement Measures
        date: 2011-09-21
       words: 8356
      flesch: 36
     summary: On the other hand Kazaz et al. (2008) group sub-factors influencing construction labour productivity under 4 main factors: organizational, economic, physical and socio-psychological factors. References Abdul Kadir, M.R., Lee W.P., Jaafar M.S., Sapuan S.M. and Ali A.A.A. (2005) „Factors affecting construction labour productivity for Malaysian residential projects‟‟ Structural Survey, 23 (1), 42-54 Alinaitwe, M.H., Mwakail, J.A. and Hansson, B. (2007) „
    keywords: adequacy; australasian; australasian journal; broad; building; categories; category; characteristics; compliance; conditions; constraints; construction; construction economics; construction industry; cost; dbh; design; durdyev; economics; equation; experience; external; external constraints; factors; finance; h =; high; impact; improvement; industry; inputs; internal; issues; journal; key; key constraints; labour; labour productivity; level; low; m =; management; mbachu; mean; measures; medium; method; new; new zealand; notes; objectives; onsite; performance; process; productivity; productivity constraints; project; rating; relative; report; research; resource; responses; sector; set; significant; site; site labour; site productivity; studies; study; subcontractors; supervision; survey; table; team; total; unforeseen; value; workforce; zealand; zealand construction
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        item: #37 of 394
          id: ajceb-2134
      author: Ibem, Eziyi Offia; Anosike, Michael Nwabueze; Azuh, Dominic Ezenwa; Mosaku, Tim O.
       title: Work Stress among Professionals in Building Construction Industry in Nigeria
        date: 2011-09-21
       words: 6807
      flesch: 36
     summary: This is in view of the fact that to date, very little is known about work stress among professionals in the building construction industry in this country. Keywords: Work stress, Building construction Industry, Professionals, Nigeria Introduction In the last few decades, the building construction industry has witnessed tremendous institutional and organizational transformation across the globe.
    keywords: architects; australasian; australasian journal; builders; building; building construction; building industry; building projects; burnout; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction professionals; construction sites; construction work; control; demand; different; economics; engineers; environment; et al; evidence; experience; factors; field; figure; general; health; high; hours; ibem; inadequate; individual; job; journal; key; lack; lath; leung; literature; long; management; nigeria; number; occupational; offices; ongoing; organizational; perception; performance; person; physical; poor; productivity; professionals; projects; quantity; related; research; respondents; result; role; site; source; stress; stress factors; stressors; study; surveyors; table; time; wahab; work; work stress; workers; working; years
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        item: #38 of 394
          id: ajceb-2171
      author: Ramachandra, Thanuja; Rotimi, James Olabode
       title: The Nature of Payment Problems in the New Zealand Construction Industry
        date: 2011-06-20
       words: 7031
      flesch: 51
     summary: The forgoing provides an insight into construction payment delays and losses and show that these are prevalent. Summary of construction payment disputes Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Ramachandra, T and Rotimi, J O (2011) ‘The nature of payment problems in the New Zealand construction industry’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 11 (2) 22-33 29 claimed and schedule amount, non-payment due to defective and incomplete work, non- issuance of payment schedule, etc.
    keywords: adjudication; analyses; australasian; building; cases; categories; category; cca; claim; claimants; companies; construction; construction companies; construction economics; construction industry; contractor; court; creditors; delay; disputes; economics; experienced; final; high; industry; information; journal; legal; likely; liquidation; liquidators; losses; nature; new; new zealand; p c; parties; payment; payment delays; payment problems; problems; proceedings; progress; project; property; provisions; ramachandra; reports; rotimi; schedule; security; set; standard; statutory; study; subcontractors; table; trade; zealand; zealand construction
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        item: #39 of 394
          id: ajceb-2173
      author: Oo, Bee Lan; Abdul-Aziz, Abdul-Rashid; Lim, Yoke Mui
       title: Information Feedback and Learning in Construction Bidding
        date: 2011-09-21
       words: 6326
      flesch: 41
     summary: At worst, irrelevant bidding feedback information can be ignored by the bidders. Although the bidders with partial bidding feedback are more likely to vary their bids as indicated by learning theory, their bids are less competitive than those with no bidding feedback information.
    keywords: auctions; australasian; average; behavioural; bidders; bidding; bids; building; capacity; clients; competitiveness; construction; construction bidding; construction economics; contractors; cost; decision; different; direction; drew; economics; estimate; experience; experiment; feedback; group; high; higher; information; information feedback; journal; learning; level; mark; mean; mucr; partial; price; procurement; profit; projects; results; round; selten; significant; subjects; test; theory; treatment; trends; utilization; winning
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        item: #40 of 394
          id: ajceb-2174
      author: Liu, Junxiao; London, Kerry
       title: Analysing the Relationship between New Housing Supply and Residential Construction Costs with Regional Heterogeneities
        date: 2011-09-21
       words: 4929
      flesch: 42
     summary: However, DiPasquale and Wheaton (1994) can not identify a significant linkage between construction costs and new housing construction. ‘Housing market dynamics and the future of housing prices’, Journal of Urban Economics, 35 (1), 1-27 Engle, R.F. and Granger, C.W.J. (1987) ‘Co-integration and error correction: representation, estimation, and testing’, Econometrica, 55 (2), 251-276 Follain, J.R. (1979) ‘The price elasticity of the long-run supply of new housing construction’, Land Economics, 55 (2), 190-199 Granger, C.W.J. and Newbold, P. (1974) ‘Spurious regression in econometrics’, Journal of Econometrics, 2 (2), 111-120 Greene, W.H. (2000) Econometric analysis, 4th Edn. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, US Holmes, M.J. (2007) ‘How convergent are regional house prices in the United Kingdom?
    keywords: abs; australasian; australia; building; cointegration; commencements; construction; construction costs; construction economics; costs; data; dipasquale; ecm; economics; elasticity; factors; granger; heterogeneities; house; housing; housing construction; housing supply; input; ips; journal; liu; london; model; national; new; new housing; panel; pedroni; population; poterba; ppi; price; regional; regional heterogeneities; relationship; research; residential; residential construction; results; significant; studies; study; supply; test; unit; urban; values; variables
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        item: #41 of 394
          id: ajceb-2195
      author: Mahamid, Ibrahim
       title: Early cost estimating for road construction projects using multiple regression techniques
        date: 2011-12-09
       words: 6202
      flesch: 52
     summary: Table 4 shows the projects distribution based on project cost. Category No. of projects small 46 medium 43 large 42 Table 4 Projects distribution based on project cost in the collected data Moreover, a consideration is taken to have approximately equal number of projects under each cost category per each year of award.
    keywords: accuracy; activities; asphalt; australasian; basecoarse; building; construction; construction economics; construction projects; cost; cost estimating; data; developed; early; early cost; earthworks; economics; estimate; estimating; function; furniture; independent; intercept; journal; length; mahamid; mape; model; multiple; multiple regression; pavement; project; project cost; quantities; quantity; regression; results; road; road construction; square; stages; statistics; study; table; techniques; total; total cost; value; variables; width; works; year
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        item: #42 of 394
          id: ajceb-2198
      author: Formoso, Carlos Torres; Isatto, Eduardo Luis
       title: Three Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding Inter-firm Coordination of Construction Project Supply Chains
        date: 2011-09-21
       words: 9071
      flesch: 29
     summary: Each of those stakeholders can both affect and be affected by the way a project is managed, and none of them usually has the power or the ability to coordinate project supply chains. This paper discusses the role of three different theoretical perspectives for understanding the inter-firm coordination process of project supply chains in the construction industry: the Theory of Coordination, the Transaction Cost Theory and the Language-Action Perspective.
    keywords: action; approaches; architect; australasian; australasian journal; building; case; chain; chain members; classical; client; commitments; construction; construction economics; construction project; construction supply; context; contracting; contracts; cooperation; coordination; cost; crowston; data; definitions; dependences; design; different; firm; firm coordination; flores; flow; governance; high; information; inter; isatto; journal; language; lap; loops; main; management; meetings; members; necessary; new; order; perspectives; phase; planning; plans; process; processes; production; project; project supply; rationality; relationships; resources; role; situations; specialization; specific; structure; subcontractors; supply; supply chain; table; tasks; tct; team; term; theoretical; theory; transactions; understanding; use; weeks; williamson; work
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        item: #43 of 394
          id: ajceb-2200
      author: Bridge, Adrian John
       title: Modern Construction Economics
        date: 2011-06-28
       words: 3214
      flesch: 37
     summary: Before giving some thought to how far each of the chapters achieve this, it‟s worth reflecting on the virtues of developing construction economics as its own discipline or sub-discipline in general economics and the bold manner by which de Valence is proposing we do this. George Ofori in his article in Construction Management and Economics (CME) in 1994 held the view that construction economics cannot be described as a bona fide academic discipline.
    keywords: approach; australasian; book; bridge; bröchner; building; business; change; chapter; cme; construction; construction economics; costs; discipline; economics; example; firms; industry; information; innovation; interesting; ipv; issue; it‟s; journal; level; nie; number; progress; projects; real; research; review; runeson; supply; tendering; terms; theory; time; understanding; valence; valence‟s; work
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        item: #44 of 394
          id: ajceb-2201
      author: Gajendran, Thayaparan; Brewer, Graham; Runeson, Goran; Dainty, Andrew
       title: Investigating informality in construction: philosophy, paradigm and practice
        date: 2011-06-23
       words: 8282
      flesch: 25
     summary: The aim is neither to unearth the ‗roots‘ of informality research, nor to give an in-depth account of informality research in other disciplines. Taxonomies of Informality Research in Construction In this paper, it is argued that informality research can be conceptualised through four aspects, and that these aspects influence the design of the research approach/methodological paradigms, and vice versa.
    keywords: action; activities; analysis; approach; appropriate; aspects; associated; australasian; australasian journal; bresnen; building; case; choice; collection; communication; complexity; conceptual; conceptualisation; construction; construction economics; construction management; construction project; context; corbin; critical; data; design; different; discourse; economics; eds; etc; ethical; example; figure; focus; framework; gajendran; illegal; influence; informalities; informality; informality research; interviews; issues; journal; labour; lincoln; management; meaningful; methodological; methodologies; methodology; methods; multiple; nature; organisations; paper; paradigm; perspective; philosophy; positivist; practice; process; processes; project; qualitative; qualitative research; realism; research; researchers; review; sage; sector; social; sociological; strategies; strategy; studies; study; techniques; theory; understanding; urban; use; way; worldviews
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        item: #45 of 394
          id: ajceb-2216
      author: Runeson, Goran
       title: The Demise of the Journal Ranking: A Victory for Common Sense
        date: 2011-06-28
       words: 838
      flesch: 26
     summary: In the case of Construction Management, among several other irregularities, including a distorted perception of Open Access journals by at least one senior member of the ranking committee who arbitrarily decided and enforced that no Open Access journal would be given an A ranking despite the fact that there were numerous examples of A* and A rankings of such journals in other disciplines. One common example was the setting of targets for publication in A and A* journals by institutional research managers.”
    keywords: arc; carr; change; common; construction; economics; era; evidence; http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/rankings-gone-but-what-about-the-stench/story-e6frgcjx-1226071074342au/higher-education/rankings-gone-but-what-about-the-stench/story-e6frgcjx-1226071074342; journal; minister; process; quality; ranking; research
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        item: #46 of 394
          id: ajceb-2234
      author: Ogbeifun, Edoghogho
       title: Training Artisans On-Site
        date: 2011-09-21
       words: 4528
      flesch: 38
     summary: Conclusion The concept of executing construction projects from simple to complex areas as a tool for training artisans on-site in the construction industry provides a potential solution to the dearth of skilled artisan in the industry. Training of Artisans On-site Apprenticeship is one of the oldest methods of training artisans in construction skills.
    keywords: active; africa; apprenticeship; approach; areas; artisans; australasian; australasian journal; available; building; casual; centre; century; community; complex; construction; construction economics; construction industry; development; employment; firms; fitchett; geneva; host; image; implementation; increase; industry; informal; international; interpretation; journal; labour; learning; mapungubwe; office; ogbeifun; percent; practice; principle; process; progressive; project; prospects; public; sector; site; size; skilled; skills; south; team; timbrel; trainee; training; training artisans; use; vault; workers; workforce
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        item: #47 of 394
          id: ajceb-2238
      author: Lowe, David; Skitmore, Martin
       title: The learning climate of chartered quantity surveying practices
        date: 2011-12-09
       words: 10864
      flesch: 46
     summary: Keywords: Learning organization, Experiential learning, Learning styles, Practitioners, Quantity surveying Introduction Professional practitioners, it is held, continually learn on the job, as their work necessitates involvement in a series of projects, problems or cases which are new to them. Several researchers have hypothesised that learning styles affect behaviour in the workplace (Gish, 1980; Manring, 1979; Miller, 1978; Sims, 1983).
    keywords: ability; analysis; australasian; australasian journal; building; climate; construction; construction economics; correlation; development; differences; economics; environment; experience; factor; feedback; high; higher; human; increases; individual; information; items; journal; kolb; large; lcq; learning; level; lowe; management; mean; measures; mumford; needs; new; number; organisation; people; perception; personal; position; practices; practitioners; problems; profession; provision; quantity; quantity surveying; regression; relationship; resources; responsibility; results; scores; sds; self; significant; size; size practices; skitmore; small; staff; standards; style; summary; support; supportive; surveying; surveying practices; systems; table; terms; time; variables; working; working practices; years
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        item: #48 of 394
          id: ajceb-2239
      author: Oluwatayo, Adedapo Adewunmi; Amole, Dolapo
       title: Architectural firms: workforce, business strategy and performance
        date: 2011-12-09
       words: 12648
      flesch: 42
     summary: The study of professional service firm performance by Greenwood et al (2005) however revealed a negative correlation between number of professionals and the performance of the firms. London: Institute of Personnel and Development Pennings J. M. Lee, K. and Wiitteloostuijn A. (1998) ‘Human capital, social capital and firm dissolution’, Academy of Management Journal, 41, 425-440 Phua, F. T. T. (2006) ‘Predicting construction firm performance: an empirical assessment of the differential impact between industry- and firm-specific factors’, Construction Management and Economics, 24 (3), 309 - 320 http://www.rics.org/site/download_feed.aspx?fileID=3035&fileExtension=PDF Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Oluwatayo, A A and Amole, D (2011) ‘Architectural firms: workforce, business strategy and performance’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 11 (4) 21-44 41 Raiden, A. B., Dainty, A. R. J. and Neale, R. H. (2008) ‘Understanding employee resourcing in construction organizations’, Construction Management and Economics, 26 (11), 1133 - 1143 Rameezdeen, R. and Ramachandra T. (2008) ‘Construction linkages in a developing economy: the case of Sri Lanka’, Construction Management and Economics, 26 (5), 499-506 Register of Architectural Firms entitled to practice in the federal republic of Nigeria, 2006 edition Reich, R. B. (1991)
    keywords: addition; advantage; amole; analysis; architects; architectural firms; architecture; australasian; australasian journal; building; building oluwatayo; business strategy; capabilities; capital; centralization; characteristics; clients; cluster; competitive; construction; construction economics; construction firms; construction industry; construction management; context; decision; direct; economics; effect; employee; et al; experience; expertise; factors; findings; firm performance; firms; greenwood; harvester; high; hitt; human; human resource; impact; importance; industry; influence; influence performance; interaction; journal; katsanis; level; making; management; management journal; market; measures; new; nigeria; non; number; oluwatayo; organizational; participation; partners; performance; personnel; practices; prestige; previous; principal; professional; professional service; profitability; projects; relationship; research; resource; resource management; results; richard; selection; selective; service; service firms; significant; skill; specialization; staff; strategies; strategy; structure; studies; study; sustenance; task; terms; types; variables; variance; view; workforce; workforce characteristics; workforce management
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        item: #49 of 394
          id: ajceb-2271
      author: Idoro, Godwin Iroroakpo
       title: Influence in-sourcing and outsourcing of consultants on construction project performance in Nigeria
        date: 2011-12-09
       words: 8086
      flesch: 32
     summary: The results of the hypothesis are expected to assist clients to know the effect of engaging the two types of consultants and which consultants to source in-house or outside Conceptual Framework of the Study Three categories of variables namely: project consultant, consultant source and project performance were used in the study. For the test of the hypothesis, data collected on the use of the two variables of project consultants and the respondents’ assessment of the twelve variables of project performance as stated in the research methods were used.
    keywords: architects; australasian; benefits; building; clients; conflicts; construction; construction economics; construction project; consultants; contractors; cost; delivery; design; development; difference; duration; economics; electrical; engineers; extent; external; house; hypothesis; idoro; industry; influence; initial; journal; management; managers; mechanical; nigeria; organisations; outcome; outsourced; outsourced consultants; outsourcing; overrun; percentage; performance; professionals; project; project consultants; project development; project performance; quality; quantity; respondents; results; sampled; services; significant; structural; study; surveyors; table; test; time; total; types; use; value
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        item: #50 of 394
          id: ajceb-2276
      author: Smith, Peter
       title: Information Technology and the QS Practice
        date: 2011-08-29
       words: 10021
      flesch: 48
     summary: 5 N o n - B u ild in g S e r v ic e s 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% PetroChemical M anufacturing M ining Aeronautical Ship Building Water Services T ransport Aeronautical M arine Works Infrastructure Works Civil Works Research/Publishing Other % of respondent firms 1999 1998 Fig. 3 Traditional Services 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Estim/Cost Plan Bills of Quant Bldrs Quants Spec Prep Contract Admin % of respondent firms 1999 1998 Information Technology and the QS Practice by Peter Smith The Australian Journal of Construction Economics & Building Page 11 F ig . % < 5 % 5 -1 0 % 1 0
    keywords: adoption; advances; advantage; areas; australian; australian journal; benefits; building; business; cad; capabilities; change; clients; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contractors; cost; current; data; design; development; dpws; economics; electronic; example; expertise; facilities; figure; firms; flow; future; general; income; industry; information; information technology; journal; key; level; long; main; major; management; measurement; necessary; need; new; non; object; opportunities; page; paper; participants; peter; peter smith; phase; potential; practice; practitioners; problems; process; processes; procurement; productivity; profession; project; qs practice; quantities; quantity; quantity surveying; range; research; respondent; results; second; services; significant; smith; software; strategies; surveying; surveying firms; surveyors; surveys; systems; technology; term; time; total; traditional; training; use; value; works; years
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        item: #51 of 394
          id: ajceb-2277
      author: Chan, Albert P C; Ho, Denny K C; Tam, C M
       title: Design and Build: Views from some Major Public Clients in Hong Kong
        date: 2001-09-01
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
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    keywords: bad
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        item: #52 of 394
          id: ajceb-2278
      author: Lawther, Peter M; Edwards, Peter J
       title: Design Cost Modelling - The Way Forward
        date: 2001-09-01
       words: 5171
      flesch: 49
     summary: Skitmore and Patchell (1990) and Bowen (1993) have cited lack of understanding of the construction process on the part of “design cost estimators” as the reason for Design Cost Modelling – A Way Forward by Peter Lawther and Peter Edwards The Australian Journal of Construction Economics & Building Page 39 the lack of usage of the simulation and Cost of Contractors Operations resource based cost modelling techniques respectively. Consequently, two distinct paradigms of cost modelling techniques exist: • product based – where the completed building is modelled.
    keywords: accuracy; ashworth; australian; beeston; bowen; building; construction; consultant; contractors; cost; cost modelling; data; design; design cost; development; e&fn; economics; edwards; estimating; fortune; information; journal; lack; lawther; level; london; management; marston; method; modelling; modelling techniques; models; page; peter; price; process; processes; procurement; product; projects; quantities; quantity; resource; skitmore; spon; stage; surveyors; table; techniques; tender; time; traditional; university; usage; use; way
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        item: #53 of 394
          id: ajceb-2279
      author: Smallwood, John; Venter, Danie
       title: The Role of Media in South African Health and Safety
        date: 2011-08-31
       words: 4621
      flesch: 50
     summary: Table 6: Media aspects reviewed by editors Response (%) II Rank Media aspect Never Rarely Some- times Often Always No response Editorial 16.7 16.7 22.2 16.7 22.2 5.5 2.00 1 Photographs 38.9 5.5 5.5 22.2 22.2 11.1 1.72 2 Columns (regular) 50.0 0.0 6.3 6.3 25.0 12.6 1.31 3 Advertorial 33.3 11.1 11.1 16.7 11.1 16.7 1.28 4 Advertisements 44.4 5.5 16.7 11.1 11.1 0.0 1.17 5 Table 7 indicates that based upon an II with a minimum value of 0 (not at all) and a maximum value of 3 (extensively), contractors are the stakeholder perceived to be able to contribute most to improving construction H&S, followed by management (construction), and workers (construction). • aware of the need to improve construction H&S, which need is reinforced by industry statistics;
    keywords: advertising; african; asbestos; aspects; attention; australian; building; coa; construction; construction h&s; costs; danie; economics; editorial; editors; h&s; health; indirect; industry; john; journal; lack; magazines; management; mass; media; need; page; percentage; performance; poor; potential; print; relative; response; role; safety; smallwood; south; table; unsafe; value; venter; vivian; workers
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        item: #54 of 394
          id: ajceb-2280
      author: de Valence, Gerard
       title: Defining an Industry: What is the Size and Scope of the Australian Building and Construction Industry
        date: 2011-08-31
       words: 6106
      flesch: 51
     summary: These include the regulatory, institutional and technological structures in a framework for construction industry firms. By Gerard de Valence The Australian Journal of Construction Economics & Building Page 63 development and refinement of construction industry policy in Australia, with a range of State and Commonwealth agencies involved.
    keywords: abs; activity; aegis; analysis; approach; australian; australian building; australian journal; b&c; building; businesses; carassus; cat; chain; clients; cluster; competition; construction; construction economics; construction industry; data; design; development; economics; employment; engineering; equipment; facilities; firms; gerard; income; industries; industry; innovation; journal; large; management; markets; materials; multimedia; new; non; number; output; page; performance; policy; production; products; project; range; related; residential; residential building; scale; scope; sector; services; site; size; source; structure; supplies; system; table; tools; total; types; valence; work
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        item: #55 of 394
          id: ajceb-2281
      author: Tse, R Y C; Raftery, John
       title: Infrastructure Policy and Economic Growth: Case of Hong Kong
        date: 2001-09-01
       words: 7244
      flesch: 39
     summary: Once we have established the basis for public infrastructure project, we have to examine the impact of government finance on private incentives and resource use. The next section discusses government’s role in infrastructure investment in Hong Kong, and draw attention to the trend for privatization of infrastructure projects.
    keywords: airport; australian; bodies; building; business; capital; case; chiang; competitiveness; construction; construction economics; contractors; costs; countries; cyberport; demand; development; domestic; economic; economic growth; economy; efficiency; expenditure; facilities; finance; financial; financing; firms; foreign; future; global; government; growth; high; hong; hong kong; housing; hui; implementation; important; industry; information; infrastructure; infrastructure policy; infrastructure projects; international; investment; issues; journal; kong; land; large; local; major; management; markets; need; new; order; page; paper; participation; planning; policy; private; private sector; process; production; productivity; projects; property; public; r y; raftery; railway; region; resources; revenue; role; scale; sector; services; strategic; support; systems; table; tang; technology; time; total; transport; tse; use; works; y c; y h
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        item: #56 of 394
          id: ajceb-2282
      author: Wasi, Daniel; Skitmore, Martin
       title: Factors Affecting the Performance of Small Indigenous Contractors in Papau New Guinea
        date: 2001-09-01
       words: 5049
      flesch: 50
     summary: Small indigenous contractors in PNG face similar problems as small contractors in other developing countries and their performance is thought to be poor. In addition, small contractors in developing countries experience a shortage in skilled labour due to the salary and the security of employment offered by large construction companies being greater than that offered by the small contractor (ILO, 1987:40-3).
    keywords: australian; building; cash; category; client; communication; company; construction; contractors; countries; daniel; economics; effect; experienced; factors; financial; flow; guinea; impact; indigenous; indigenous contractors; industry; item; journal; large; level; management; martin; national; new; office; page; papua; performance; png; problems; projects; public; sector; site; skills; skitmore; small; small contractors; small indigenous; wasi; work
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        item: #57 of 394
          id: ajceb-2283
      author: Weddikkara, Citra; Devapriya, Kapila
       title: Demand and Supply Trends and Construction Industry Development: A Case Study in the Sri Lankan Construction Industry
        date: 2001-09-01
       words: 6836
      flesch: 39
     summary: Raftery et al (1998), observe that vertical integration of construction projects in Asia is necessitated by an effective way of overcoming a firm’s weakness or other drawbacks in competitive markets. However, limitations of the effectiveness of such programs are to be seen in potential conflicts involving priorities between delivering construction projects on time, within cost and quality targets the accomplishment of TT objectives (Simkoko, 1992).
    keywords: aid; australian; bank; boo; bot; building; capacity; case; case study; central; changes; chitra; colombo; construction; construction economics; construction industry; context; contracting; contractors; cost; countries; dcs; demand; devapriya; development; domestic; domestic industry; economics; factors; finance; financial; firms; foreign; framework; global; government; growth; housing; ictad; important; increase; industry; industry development; infrastructure; institutional; investment; joint; journal; kapila; lanka; lankan construction; large; local; management; materials; measures; necessary; new; ofori; page; participation; private; private sector; process; procurement; projects; quality; raftery; recent; result; scale; sector; source; sri; sri lanka; study; supply; supply trends; technological; technology; training; trends; urban; weddikkara; year
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        item: #58 of 394
          id: ajceb-2284
      author: Wood, Brian
       title: Sustainability of Construction Education
        date: 2011-09-01
       words: 3602
      flesch: 44
     summary: Students as Customers The profile of construction students in terms of age, entry qualifications, gender, etc is not ‘typical’ of university students generally. There is also a significant proportion of mature students on construction courses, helping universities provide broader access to higher education.
    keywords: australian; author; board; brian; building; changes; cib; construction; construction education; content; courses; customer; delivery; development; economics; education; experience; industry; instance; institutions; journal; learning; level; london; management; market; masters; materials; needs; new; oxford; page; people; qualifications; quality; research; school; skills; students; study; sustainability; sustainable; time; training; university; wood; work; years
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        item: #59 of 394
          id: ajceb-2285
      author: Jeary, Alan
       title: Editorial
        date: 2011-09-01
       words: 538
      flesch: 53
     summary: As befits our international remit, there are papers in this issue, that consider the construction industries, or aspects of them, in Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea. It should be pointed out to non-native English speakers that the description of this by the euphemism “Go away, find out” avoids a classical profanity.
    keywords: aspects; australian; building; construction; edition; journal; papers; point; professions; view
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        item: #60 of 394
          id: ajceb-2295
      author: Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour
       title: Factors contributing to the fluctuations in residential construction in Iran
        date: 2011-12-09
       words: 4768
      flesch: 43
     summary: Therefore, housing construction can lead recoveries and recessions in the economy of Iran. By applying cointegration approach, the empirical results show that housing prices, construction costs, GDP and gold prices are important factors to predict changes in the level of residential construction in Iran.
    keywords: areas; australasian; bank; building; central; cointegration; construction; construction economics; construction investment; costs; credit; data; demand; determinants; economics; empirical; estate; factors; fereidouni; figure; fluctuation; gdp; gold; growth; housing; important; index; interest; investment; iran; journal; long; market; measure; model; new; paper; period; permits; positive; prices; private; rate; real; regression; relationship; residential; residential construction; results; run; section; sector; series; significant; study; time; urban; variables
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        item: #61 of 394
          id: ajceb-2297
      author: Sporrong, Josefin
       title: Criteria in consultant selection: public procurement of architectural and engineering services
        date: 2011-12-09
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: 502 Bad Gateway 502 Bad Gateway nginx
    keywords: bad
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        item: #62 of 394
          id: ajceb-2311
      author: Rose, Marianne
       title: Can Project Alliance Contracts deliver Australia’s National Broadband Network?
        date: 2011-09-23
       words: 8634
      flesch: 35
     summary: In order to connect the premises to FTTP network NBN Co needs to enter the relevant land and install the drop cable and ONT. However, prior to the deal being negotiated, the predominate suggestion was that if Telstra cooperated with NBN Co then $8 billion in project costs could be saved.
    keywords: 2010; agreement; alliance; alliance contracts; alliance model; alliancing; australasian; australasian journal; australia; book; broadband network; building; change; committee; construction; construction economics; consumers; contract; contract model; contractual; copper; cost; dbcde; delivery; deployment; design; digital; disputes; economics; economy; end; fast; fibre; fibre network; fixed; flexible; framework; government; high; implementation; information; infrastructure; journal; lack; layer; management; means; media; minister; model; national broadband; nbn; nbn co; nbn project; need; new; open; optical; optus; participants; parties; physical; point; premises; price; process; project; project alliance; release; responsibility; risk; scope; select; senate; september; services; study; team; telecommunications; telstra; tender; time; use; user
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        item: #63 of 394
          id: ajceb-2312
      author: Cheung, Sai On
       title: Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment
        date: 2011-09-23
       words: 1233
      flesch: 51
     summary: In Chapter 11, an example of a 6-star rated office development in Sydney is used to compare the concepts of Western sustainable design and Chinese Feng Shui. Overall, this is an interesting introduction to Feng Shui, a handy reference on the applications of Feng Shui concepts to the built environment and a thought-provoking read on a scientific approach to explain Feng Shui.
    keywords: approach; architecture; authors; book; chapter; chinese; compass; concepts; design; environment; feng; feng shui; form; knowledge; layout; natural; school; scientific; shui; study; western
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        item: #64 of 394
          id: ajceb-2313
      author: de Valence, Geard
       title: The Lords of Strategy: The Secret History of the new Corporate World
        date: 2011-09-23
       words: 1876
      flesch: 58
     summary: The founder of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bruce Henderson, was the originator of business strategy as we know it today. What it did do was build client relationships and make Porter’s value chain the closest thing we have to a universal concept in business strategy.
    keywords: australasian; bain; bcg; book; building; business; companies; company; construction; consulting; corporate; corporations; costs; curve; economics; effect; experience; harvard; ideas; industry; interesting; journal; kiechel; management; porter; profits; review; story; strategy
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        item: #65 of 394
          id: ajceb-2323
      author: Karamujic, Harry M
       title: Modelling seasonality in Australian building approvals
        date: 2012-02-26
       words: 4861
      flesch: 33
     summary: This is corroborated with the analysis of out of sample forecasting capabilities of the considered modelling specifications, which showed that the models with deterministic seasonal specification exhibit superior forecasting capabilities. The examination of the out-of-sample forecasting power of the three models clearly shows that the seasonality apparent in the actual data is well picked up by specifications entailing deterministic seasonal factor, corroborating the earlier finding that the seasonal pattern in the number of dwelling units approved in Victoria is deterministic and not stochastic.
    keywords: abs; activity; approach; approvals; australasian journal; australian; australian building; banhs; behaviour; building; building approvals; building karamujic; business; component; considered; construction; construction economics; conventional; deterministic; economics; fit; forecasting; goodness; harvey; housing; investment; irregular; journal; karamujic; level; modelling; models; new; number; paper; presence; property; residential; sample; seasonal; seasonality; sector; series; significant; specifications; state; statistics; stochastic; structural; study; sum; table; test; time; trend; victoria
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        item: #66 of 394
          id: ajceb-2330
      author: Ramanathan, Chidambaram; Narayanan, S P; Idrus, Arazi B
       title: Construction delays causing risks on time and cost - a critical review
        date: 2012-02-26
       words: 8637
      flesch: 44
     summary: http://www.cm.fiu.edu/publication/Delays .pdf Aibinu, A.A. and Odeyinka, A. (2006) ‘Construction delays and their causative factors in Nigeria’, Journal of Construction Engineering Management, 132 (7), 667-677 Ajanlekoko, J.O. (1987) ‘Controlling cost in the construction industry’, Lagos QS Digest, Lagos, 1 (1), 8–12 Akinsola, A.O. (1996) ‘Neural network model for predicting building projects’ contingency’, In Conference proceedings of association of researchers in construction management, ARCOM 96, Sheffield Hallam University, England, 507–16 Alaghbari, W., Kadir, M.R.A., Salim, A. and Ernawati (2007) ’The significant factors causing delay of building construction projects in Malaysia. Abstract There is an increase in the number of construction projects experiencing extensive delays leading to exceeding the initial time and cost budget.
    keywords: alaghbari; analysis; arabia; assaf; australasian; australasian journal; battaineh; building; building ramanathan; c et; case; categories; category; causes; chan; changes; client; construction; construction delays; construction economics; construction projects; consultant; contractor; contractual; control; cost; cost overrun; critical; data; delays; design; different; difficulties; economics; engineering; environment; et.al; factors; financial; frequency; groups; hejji; hong; importance; index; industry; international; journal; kong; kumaraswamy; labour; long; management; materials; number; odeh; overrun; owner; plant; poor; problems; project; questionnaire; ramanathan; rank; ranking; relationship; research; respondents; response; results; review; risks; sambasivan; saudi; schedule; scheduling; site; studies; study; table; time; total; vietnam
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        item: #67 of 394
          id: ajceb-2358
      author: Morrison, Emily; Thurnell, Derek
       title: Employee preferences for work-life benefits in a large New Zealand construction company
        date: 2012-02-26
       words: 7741
      flesch: 36
     summary: The concept of work-life balance has evolved in response to a changing culture where work has become more demanding of both sexes and free time has become less available, in turn increasing pressures in both domains causing endemic work-life imbalance (Dallimore & Mickel 2006; Lewis, Gambles & Rapoport 2007; Families and Work Institute 2008). Rates of employment have increased for women and remained constant for men resulting in less time available outside of work.
    keywords: age; arrangements; australasian; balance; benefits; building; care; childcare; company; conflict; construction; construction company; construction economics; construction industry; crisis; current; demographic; development; different; economics; employees; factors; family; findings; flexible; francis; gender; hours; industry; initiatives; job; journal; large; large new; life; life balance; life benefits; lingard; management; managers; mean; morrison; new; new zealand; options; organisational; personal; policies; preferences; project; research; respondents; results; scores; site; standard; studies; study; support; table; thurnell; time; useful; wellness; work; working; years; zealand; zealand construction
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        item: #68 of 394
          id: ajceb-2427
      author: Mahamid, Ibrahim; Bruland, Amund
       title: Cost diviation in road construction projects: The case of Palestine
        date: 2012-02-26
       words: 4792
      flesch: 50
     summary: Abstract This paper investigates the statistical relationship between actual and estimated cost of road construction projects using data from road construction projects awarded in the West Bank in Palestine over the years 2004–2008. This paper presents the statistical relationship between actual and estimated cost of road construction projects using data from road construction projects awarded in the West Bank in Palestine over the years 2004–2008.
    keywords: actual; amund; analysis; australasian; australasian journal; average; bank; building; case; construction; construction economics; construction projects; contract; cost; cost deviation; data; deviation; economics; estimates; estimation; figure; following; journal; large; mahamid; models; overrun; palestine; projects; regression; relationship; results; road; road construction; size; small; study; table; west; years
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        item: #69 of 394
          id: ajceb-2428
      author: Bröchner, Jan
       title: Constructing futures: Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction
        date: 2011-12-16
       words: 647
      flesch: 54
     summary: Thus says George Ferguson, RIBA ex-president, one of the fifteen influential people in UK construction who have been interviewed by Chan and Cooper. The semi- scientific Delphi method, based on independent and anonymous expert guesses, merged with old-style commissions of the great and the good to create the foresight style of cosy discussion of industry problems.
    keywords: authors; book; chan; change; construction; cooper; foresight; future; industry; present; problems; review; studies
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        item: #70 of 394
          id: ajceb-2429
      author: Zillante, George
       title: Construction management: understanding and leading an ethical project team
        date: 2011-12-16
       words: 1377
      flesch: 56
     summary: Conclusion The book is easy to read and, although North American biased, is generic enough to be understood by most construction industry professionals in most countries around the world. Module 3 deals with project owners and construction managers.
    keywords: australasian; author; book; building; clear; construction; economics; ethical; industry; journal; leadership; management; manager; members; project; sub; team; work
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        item: #71 of 394
          id: ajceb-2432
      author: Li, Rita Yi Man
       title: Econometric modelling of risk adverse behaviours of entrepreneurs in the provision of house fittings in China
        date: 2012-03-09
       words: 5585
      flesch: 54
     summary: Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Li, R Y M (2012) ‘Econometric modelling of risk adverse behaviours of entrepreneurs in the provision of house fittings in China’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (1) 72-82 73 District Total residential developments available for occupation in 2004 - 2007 1 Percentage of bare flats Bai Xia 32 92 Da Han 4 50 Gao Chun 3 100 Gu Lou 65 94 Jian 71 93 Jiang Zhu 133 98 Li Shui 11 91 This applies also to Table 2. Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Li, R Y M (2012) ‘Econometric modelling of risk adverse behaviours of entrepreneurs in the provision of house fittings in China’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (1) 72-82 74 The first proposition:
    keywords: adverse; areas; australasian; australasian journal; available; aversion; bare; bare units; behaviours; brand; building; bureau; business; buyers; capita; china; chongqing; construction; construction economics; consumer; costs; developers; developments; dwellings; econometric; economics; entrepreneurs; fittings; flats; gdp; hangzhou; high; higher; home; house; housing; information; journal; land; loss; low; management; market; modelling; number; online; percentage; price; probit; product; proportion; provision; quality; regression; residential; results; risk; risk adverse; shanghai; shortage; soufun; statistics; table; units; variables; year
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        item: #72 of 394
          id: ajceb-2433
      author: Loosemore, Martin; Phua, Florence T T; Teo, Melissa; Dunn, Kevin D
       title: Management strategies to harness cultural diversity in Australian construction sites - a social identity perspective
        date: 2012-02-26
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: 502 Bad Gateway 502 Bad Gateway nginx
    keywords: bad
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        item: #73 of 394
          id: ajceb-2434
      author: Gajendran, Thayaparan; Brewer, Graham; Dainty, Andrew R J; Runeson, Goran
       title: A conceptual approach to studying the organisational culture of construction projects
        date: 2012-05-30
       words: 14520
      flesch: 22
     summary: The Case for Multiple Methods’, Goldstein, I. L. (Ed.), Frontiers of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Jossey-Bass Inc, California Ruikar, K. Anumba, C. J. and Carrillo, P. M. (2005) ‘End-user perspective on use of project extranets in construction organisations’, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 12 (3), 325-343 Santos, F. M. and Eisenhardt, K. M. (2005) ‘Organisational boundaries and theories of organization’, Organisation Science, 16 (5), 491-508 Sathe, V. (1985) Culture and related corporate realities: texts, cases and readings on organisational entry, establishment, and change, Irwin, Homewood IL Schein, E. H. (1984) ‘Coming to a new awareness of organisational culture’, Sloan Management Review, 25 (2), 3-16 Schein, E. H. (1990) ‘Organisational Culture’, American Psychologist, 45 (2), 109-119 Schein, E. H. (1993) ‘Legitimating Clinical Research in the study of organisational culture’, Journal of counseling and Development, 71 (6), 703-708 Schein, E. H. (1996) ‘Three Cultures of management: The key to organisational learning’, Sloan Management Review, 38 (1), 9-20 Schein, E. H. (2004) Organisational culture and leadership, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco Schneider, B., Ed. The Fragmentation-Emancipation Philosophical Position Fragmentation Perspective The third key perspective of organisational culture studies is ‘fragmentation’ (Martin et al. 1983; Meyerson and Martin 1987; Martin, 2004).
    keywords: alvesson; ambiguities; ambiguity; analysis; approach; artefacts; aspects; assumptions; australasian; australasian journal; behaviour; beliefs; boundaries; building; case; change; communication; conceptual; conflict; construction; construction culture; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; construction organisations; construction projects; context; control; corporate; cultural; cultural analysis; cultural manifestations; cultural perspectives; cultural studies; culture; dainty; deal; differentiation; emancipatory; environment; et al; fellows; focus; fragmentation; framework; functional; gajendran; group; hofstede; industry; information; integrated; integration; international; issues; journal; key; lack; life; literature; london; loosemore; management; management journal; managers; manifestations; martin; meanings; members; meyerson; multiple; nature; new; non; organisational culture; organisations; orientation; ouchi; outcomes; paper; paradigm; patterns; performance; perspective; philosophical; position; practical; price; process; professional; project; project management; project organisations; research; researchers; root; rousseau; sage; schein; science; shared; smircich; studies; study; sub; subcultures; technical; underlying; understanding; unitary; values; variable; view; way; wilkins; willmott
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        item: #74 of 394
          id: ajceb-2438
      author: de Valence, Gerard; Runeson, Göran
       title: On the state of the building industry after the GFC and the Euro crisis
        date: 2011-12-16
       words: 7652
      flesch: 52
     summary: When Danish property prices began declining a few years ago, construction demand suffered. However, as reconstruction after WWII happened during a short period, there will be another period ahead (maybe in 20 years) when new construction will pick up considerably.
    keywords: africa; america; australasian; australasian journal; australia; building; building industry; building sector; business; capital; china; cities; commercial; companies; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction market; construction sector; contractors; countries; crisis; current; debt; demand; development; economic crisis; economies; economy; effect; euro; euro crisis; europe; eurozone; financial; financial crisis; foreign; future; gfc; global; government; growth; high; housing; impact; india; industry; infrastructure; investment; journal; korea; labour; levels; likely; local; long; low; major; market; near; new; opportunities; prices; private; projects; property; public; region; residential; resources; responses; runeson; sector; short; significant; south; state; survey; term; valence; work; world; years
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        item: #75 of 394
          id: ajceb-2448
      author: Sargent, Kimberley; Hyland, Paul; Sawang, Sukanlaya
       title: Factors influencing the adoption of information technology in a construction business
        date: 2012-06-01
       words: 7638
      flesch: 31
     summary: References Acar, E., Kocak, I., Sey, Y. and Arditi, D. (2005) ‘Use of information and communication technologies by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in building construction’, Construction Management and Economics, 23, 713-722 Adam, F., Carton, F. and Sammon, D. (2007) ‘Project management: a case study of a successful ERP implementation’, International Journal of Managing Projects in Businesses, 1, 106-124 Adriaanse, A., Voordijk, H. and Dewulf, G. (2010) ‘The use of interorganisational ICT in United States construction projects’, Automation in Construction, 19 (1), 73-83 Ajzen, I. (1991) ‘The theory of planned behavior’, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 50 (2), 179-211 Ali, A.S.B, Anbari, F.T and Money, W.H. (2008) ‘Impacts of organisational and project factors on acceptance and usage of project management software and perceived project success’, Project Management Journal, 39 (2), 5-33 Buhi, E. R, Goodson, P. and Neilands, T. B. (2007) ‘Structural equation modelling: a primer for health behavior researchers’, American Journal of Health Behavior, 31 (1), 74 – 85 Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Sargent, K et al. (2012) ‘Factors influencing the adoption of information technology in a construction business’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (2) 72-86 84 Bovey, W. H. and Hede, A. (2001) ‘Resistance to organisational change: the role of defence mechanisms’, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 16 (7/8), 534-548 Bjork, B.-C. (1999) ‘Information technology in construction: domain definition and research issues’, International Journal of Computer Integrated Design and Construction, SETO, 1 (1), 3-16 Bjork, B.-C. (2003) ‘Electronic document management in construction: research issues and results’. Abstract Construction firms are increasingly utilizing information technologies to better manage geographically dispersed projects.
    keywords: acceptance; adoption; australasian; australasian journal; behavioural; behavioural intention; building; business; case; change; computer; conditions; construction; construction business; construction economics; constructs; control; data; document; economics; effort; emotional; employees; et al; expectancy; experience; facilitating; factors; focus; hypothesis; implementation; increases; individual; influence; information; information technology; innovation; intention; internal; journal; management; managers; model; new; organization; performance; positive; project; reaction; relationship; research; resistance; respondents; rtc; sargent; scale; significant; social; study; support; system; technologies; technology; technology adoption; term; tms; usage; use; user; utaut; venkatesh
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        item: #76 of 394
          id: ajceb-2460
      author: Onukwube, Henry Ndubuisi
       title: Correlates of job satisfaction amongst quantity surveyors in consulting firms in Lagos, Nigeria
        date: 2012-05-30
       words: 5868
      flesch: 32
     summary: The Work Itself and Overall Job Satisfaction Locke (1995) postulates that employee job satisfaction is dependent on job satisfaction with the job components, such as the work itself. The motivation to work, New York: John Wiley & Sons Hunt, J .S. and Saul, P .N. (1975) ‘The relationship of age, tenure, and job satisfaction in males and females,’ Academy of Management Journal, 18, 690-702 Kh metle, M. (2003) ‘The Impact of Education on Attitudes of Female Government Employees,’ The Journal of Management Development, 22 (7), 603-626 Kreitner, R. and Kinicki, A. (2001) Organizational Behaviour, 5 th ed, New York, MC Graw Hill Inc Lewis, G.B. (1991) ‘Turnover and the quest crisis in the federal civil service,’ Public Administrative Review, 51, 145-55 Locke E .A. (1969) ‘Job Satisfaction and Job Performance: A Theoretical Analysis,’ Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 4 (1), 309-336 Locke, E .A. (1976) ‘The Nature and Causes of Job Satisfaction,’ In M. D. Dunnette (Ed.), Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Chicago, 1297–1349 Loosemore, M. Dainty, A. and Lingard, H. (2003) Human Resource Management in Construction Projects: Strategic and Operational Approaches, London: Spon Press Lum, L. J. Kervin, K. Clark, F. and Sirola, W. (1998) ‘Explaining Nursing Turnover Intent: Job Satisfaction, Pay Satisfaction, or Organizational Commitment?’, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 19, 305‑320 McCormack, D. Casimir, G. Djurkovic, N. and Yang, L. (2006) ‘The concurrent effects of, satisfaction with supervisors, and satisfaction with co-workers on affective commitment among school teachers in China’, International Journal of Conflict Management, 17, 316-331 McNeese-Smith, D. and Nazarey, M. (2001) ‘A nursing shortage: building organizational commitment among nurses,’ Journal of Healthcare Management, 46, 173-87 Milkovich, G .T. and Newman, J. (2008) Compensation, 8 th ed, New York, McGraw-Hill Irwin Muchinsky, P. M. (1978) ‘Age and job facet satisfaction: A conceptual reconsideration,’ Aging and Work, 1, 175-9 Oshagbemi, T. (1997) ‘The influence of rank on the job satisfaction of organizational members’, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 12 (8), 511-9 Oshagbemi, T. (2000) ‘Gender differences in the job satisfaction of university teachers’, Women in Management Review, 15 (7), 331-43 Oshagbemi, T. (2003) ‘Personal correlates of job satisfaction: Empirical evidence from UK universities,’ International Psychology, 2 nd ed, Consulting Psychological Press, Palo Alto, CA, 485-550 Pergamit, M. R. and Veum, J .R. (1999) ‘what is promotion?’, Industrial & Labour Relation Review, 52 (4), 21 Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Onukwube, H N (2012) ‘Correlates of job satisfaction amongst quantity surveyors in consulting firms in Lagos, Nigeria’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (2) 43-54 54 Raabe, B. and Beehr, T. (2003) ‘Formal mentoring versus supervisor and coworker relationships differences in perceptions and impact’, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 24, 271-292 Robbins, S .P. (2003) Organizational behavior, Upper Saddle River, Prentice-Hall Ronen, S. (1978) ‘Job satisfaction and the neglected variable of job seniority’, Human Relations, 31 (4), 297-308 Spector, P. E. (2006) Industrial and organizational psychology, 4 th ed, USA John Willey & Sons Sloane, P .and
    keywords: age; australasian; australasian journal; building; construction; construction economics; consulting; correlates; differences; economics; education; employees; experience; facets; factors; female; findings; firms; higher; job; job satisfaction; jobs; journal; lagos; level; management; mean; needs; nigeria; older; onukwube; opportunities; organizational; oshagbemi; overall; overall job; pay; personal; positive; promotion; psychology; quantity; quantity surveyors; relationship; research; respondents; result; satisfaction; satisfied; scores; significant; studies; study; supervision; surveyors; table; work; workers; years; younger
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        item: #77 of 394
          id: ajceb-2461
      author: Arif, Mohammed; Khalfan, Malik M A; Barnard, James H; Heller, Nathan A
       title: Assessing knowledge retention in construction organisations: Cases from the UAE
        date: 2012-05-30
       words: 9856
      flesch: 47
     summary: Based on the analysis of the knowledge retention system the major drivers for its successful implementation are prevalence of a culture of sharing knowledge, reward and recognition for sharing knowledge, a technology platform that can accommodate multi formats of files, awareness of knowledge retention system and its benefits among its employees, and top management support. One more issue involved with knowledge retention system is the configuration management.
    keywords: accessible; analysis; arif; australasian; australasian journal; available; based; building; business; cases; companies; company; component; construction; construction consultancies; construction economics; consultancies; context; creativity; culture; database; design; different; documented; economics; employees; et al; explicit; files; formal; framework; future; group; ideas; important; individual; information; initiatives; intranet; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; knowledge retention; knowledge sharing; level; management; manager; meetings; memory; model; new; nonaka; order; organisation; organizational; paper; past; people; place; practices; process; processes; programmes; project; research; retention; retention system; retrieval; review; role; section; sector; shared; sharing; skills; step; structure; studies; study; system; table; tacit; tacit knowledge; technical; technology; time; training; uae; usage; use; work
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        item: #78 of 394
          id: ajceb-2474
      author: Finnie, David
       title: Contract delay: what is it and how are we performing?
        date: 2012-02-26
       words: 5708
      flesch: 54
     summary: Abstract This paper examines the management of contract delays in the construction industry as cur- rently practised, and suggests some best practice alternative methods. Research results about the level of contractor’s time management skills were analysed to determine the relat- ed impact on their ability to manage contract delays.
    keywords: actual; analysis; australasian; bar; baseline; building; claims; clause; completion; conditions; construction; construction economics; construction law; contract; contract delay; costs; critical; damages; date; delay; different; economics; eot; evaluation; extension; finnie; head; industry; journal; law; management; mcdonough; method; new; nzia; path; pickavance; practitioners; prevention; principal; process; programme; progress; project; research; risk; schedule; society; subcontractor; tasks; time; time management
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        item: #79 of 394
          id: ajceb-2487
      author: Loosemore, Martin
       title: Risk management for design and construction
        date: 2012-03-15
       words: 615
      flesch: 49
     summary: Later chapters go into the practicalities of collecting risk data to populate the models described. It describes a highly quantitative approach to risk management and will be of interest to anyone who is responsible for delivering design and construction projects or indeed, projects of any kind.
    keywords: book; chapter; construction; data; estimating; examples; management; points; process; quantitative; risk; step
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        item: #80 of 394
          id: ajceb-2507
      author: Reed, Richard
       title: Evaluating sustainable development in the built environment, 2nd edition
        date: 2012-03-15
       words: 1126
      flesch: 37
     summary: The final chapter in the book is chapter nine (Education and Research) which is designed to examine the largest single challenge facing sustainable development in the built environment, namely how to educate the stakeholders and also undertake meaningful research. Evaluating Sustainable Development in the Built Environment covers 264 pages in approximately A5 page size and is divided into nine chapters.
    keywords: approaches; area; assessment; book; chapter; development; discussion; environment; framework; indicators; management; review; section; summary; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; text
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        item: #81 of 394
          id: ajceb-2536
      author: McCarthy, Sean Francis
       title: Developing an Australian code of construction ethics
        date: 2012-05-30
       words: 6852
      flesch: 41
     summary: Keywords: Ethics, Construction law Why construction ethics? The very question of ‘why it should be supposed that ethics would have any application to the field of construction law’ has been answered by the UK Society of Construction Law (Uff 2003), and suggests the following reasons: Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building McCarthy, S F (2012) ‘Developing an Australian code of construction ethics’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (2) 87-100 88 1) The need for regulation in areas not covered by legally enforceable duties (with medicine as a prime example).
    keywords: abcc; act; approach; association; australasian; australasian journal; australia; australian code; authority; behaviour; building; building industry; business; clients; cmaa; code; collins; compliance; conduct; construction; construction economics; construction ethics; construction industry; construction law; construction management; contract; countries; cwth; disregard; economics; education; enforcement; ethical; ethics; example; fair; following; form; framework; freeman; good; government; improvement; industry; integrity; interest; journal; law; legal; legislation; level; management; mccarthy; measures; model; moral; morality; national; natural; number; obvious; paper; practice; practitioners; principles; professional; regulations; research; right; services; set; society; specific; standards; statement; taskforce; thinking; u.k; uff; university; values; virtue; work
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        item: #82 of 394
          id: ajceb-2537
      author: Best, Rick; Purdey, Brian
       title: Assessing occupant comfort in an iconic sustainable education building
        date: 2012-09-11
       words: 5800
      flesch: 41
     summary: The results for lighting also point to the complex task of balancing natural light, artificial light and glare in design in order to deliver optimum lighting conditions to a majority of building occupants. The advent of green buildings in recent years has seen some major changes in the way base buildings are designed with much greater emphasis on energy efficiency, material choice and water usage.
    keywords: air; amber; australasian; australasian journal; average; benchmarks; best; bond; bordass; building; comfort; comparison; conditions; construction; construction economics; design; development; economics; education; environment; evaluation; green; hot; humid; iconic; index; journal; leaman; lighting; mean; mirvac; mirvac building; natural; noise; occupant; occupant comfort; office; outside; overall; performance; point; problem; purdey; red; residents; results; satisfaction; satisfactory; school; scores; spaces; study; summer; survey; sustainable; teaching; temperature; transient; university; users; variables; winter
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        item: #83 of 394
          id: ajceb-2560
      author: Bjork, Bo-Christer
       title: A comparison of subscription and open access journals in construction management and related fields
        date: 2012-05-30
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: 502 Bad Gateway 502 Bad Gateway nginx
    keywords: bad
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        item: #84 of 394
          id: ajceb-2583
      author: Aranda-Mena, Guillermo; Gameson, Rod
       title: An alignment model for the research higher degree supervision process using repertory grids - reflections on application in practice in built environment research
        date: 2012-09-11
       words: 7883
      flesch: 38
     summary: Harman (2003) also identified the issue of an expansion in PhD enrolments in Australia since the early 1990’s, suggesting that universities had not kept pace with the needs of a growing body of research students, leading to increasing levels of student dissatisfaction. On the other hand it is generally expected that research students should develop their own ideas and test their own hypotheses – and not that of their supervisors (Harman, 2003).
    keywords: academic; alignment; alignment model; application; aranda; australasian; australasian journal; australia; building; communication; construction; construction economics; constructs; critical; data; degree; degree supervision; development; disciplines; doctoral; economics; eds; education; effective; elements; environment; environment research; figure; gameson; grids; gurr; hefce; higher; higher degree; industry; information; issues; journal; london; management; march; mena; methods; model; need; new; online; paper; phd; postgraduate; practice; process; professional; progress; project; quality; reflections; relationship; repertory; repertory grids; research; research higher; research process; research supervision; rmit; salford; single; skills; stage; step; student; studies; study; supervision; supervision process; supervisory; support; technique; theory; thesis; time; universities; university
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        item: #85 of 394
          id: ajceb-2584
      author: Carson, Chris; Abbott, Malcolm
       title: A review of productivity analysis of the New Zealand construction industry
        date: 2012-09-11
       words: 8144
      flesch: 43
     summary: Most research on construction industry productivity tends to be concerned more with site level labour productivity, which has a more direct relevance to industry management (Ganesan 1984; Lowe 1987; Maloney 1983; Allen 1985; Thomas, Maloney, Horner, Smith, Handa and Sanders 1990; Thomas and Sakarcan 1994). References Allen, S.G. (1985) ‘Why construction industry productivity is declining’, Review of economic statistics, 117 (4), 661-665 Alterman, J. and E.E. Jacobs (1961) ‘Estimates of real product in the United States by industrial sector, 1947-1955, Output, input and productivity measurement, National Bureau of Economic Research, Princeton University press Barton, G.T., and M.R. Cooper (1948) ‘Relation or agricultural production to inputs’, Review of economics and statistics, 30 (7), 117-126 Black, M., Guy, M. and N. McLellan (2003) Productivity in New Zealand 1988 to 2002, Treasury Working paper 03/06, Wellington, The Treasury Bollard, A. and R. Barrow (2012) ‘Could we be better off than we think?’
    keywords: 1970s; abbott; analysis; annum; approach; australasian; australasian journal; building; capital; carson; case; change; chapple; chau; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction productivity; data; dea; early; economics; economy; efficiency; factor; factor productivity; gdp; growth; hong; hours; index; industries; industry; industry productivity; inputs; journal; kong; labour; labour productivity; level; management; measures; national; net; new; new zealand; number; orr; output; paper; partial; past; period; production; productivity; productivity analysis; productivity growth; quality; research; review; sector; statistics; statistics new; studies; time; total; university; use; wellington; work; years; zealand; zealand construction
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        item: #86 of 394
          id: ajceb-2628
      author: Konanahalli, Ashwini; Oyedele, Lukumon O.; Coates, Ron; von Meding, Jason; Spillane, John
       title: International projects and cross-cultural adjustments of British expatriates in Middle East: A qualitative investigation of influencing factors
        date: 2012-09-11
       words: 12749
      flesch: 30
     summary: Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Konanahalli A et al. (2012) ‘International projects and cross-cultural adjustments of British expatriates in Middle East: A qualitative investigation of influencing factors’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (3) 31-54 47 Conclusion The current study qualitatively explored the influence of organisational, work and non-work factors on the three facets of adjustment of British expatriate's posted on international assignments in the Middle Eastern regions. (2012) ‘International projects and cross-cultural adjustments of British expatriates in Middle East: A qualitative investigation of influencing factors’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (3) 31-54 41 Table 2 Factors extracted from Literature Review, Interviews and Focus Groups Discussion Upon completion of the qualtiative data analysis, this research proposes a framework for cross-cultural adjustment, which attempts to cluster factors along organisational, work and non-work issues and assess their impact on the three facets of adjustment.
    keywords: adjustment; aec; anticipatory; approach; arab; architectural; aspects; assignments; associated; australasian; australasian journal; aycan; black; british; british expatriates; building; building konanahalli; business; choice; client; commitment; companies; conditions; construction; construction economics; construction engineering; construction management; consultants; countries; country; cross; cultural; cultural adjustment; culture; data; deal; differences; different; discussions; east; eastern; economics; engineering; environment; et al; etc; expatriate adjustment; expatriates; experience; factors; family; findings; firms; focus; focus groups; free; global; groups; han; health; host; human; individual; industry; influence; information; interaction; international; international adjustment; international assignments; international construction; international journal; international projects; interviews; investigation; issues; job; journal; knowledge; konanahalli; legal; levitt; literature; living; local; management; managers; mendenhall; methods; middle; middle east; nationals; need; new; non; novelty; operations; organisational; overseas; ozorhon; participants; performance; personnel; political; practices; process; projects; qualitative; qualitative investigation; qualitative research; regions; related; relocation; research; researchers; resource; result; review; risk; role; safety; selection; skills; social; staff; standards; stephens; studies; study; success; support; techniques; theory; time; training; tung; uncertainty; understanding; university; work; work adjustment; work factors; working
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        item: #87 of 394
          id: ajceb-2634
      author: Wilkinson, Sara
       title: Writing a built environment dissertation: Practical guidance and examples
        date: 2012-06-05
       words: 485
      flesch: 40
     summary: In my 20 years’ experience final year built environment students are often overwhelmed and intimidated with the seemingly onerous task of what they perceive as ‘writing a book’. Wilkinson, S (2012) Book review, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (2) 101 101 Book Review Writing a Built Environment Dissertation: Practical Guidance and Examples Peter Farrell, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, 256 pages, ISBN 9781405198516, Price AUD 44.95, NZD 49.99, USD 37.95, GBP 22.95 EUR 27.60, as eBook USD 30.95 AUD 35.99 Peter Farrell has written a comprehensive and practical introductory guide for first time researchers in the built environment disciplines.
    keywords: book; dissertation; environment; experience; farrell; peter; research; students; writing
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        item: #88 of 394
          id: ajceb-2641
      author: Thangaraj, Ram Karthikeyan; Chan, Toong Khuan
       title: The effects of the global financial crisis on the Australian building construction supply chain
        date: 2012-09-11
       words: 8626
      flesch: 41
     summary: The analysis focused on characterizing the impact of the GFC on the financial performance of companies within four sectors of the industry: building material suppliers, building contractors, property -30% -20% -10% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% -1.5% -1.0% -0.5% 0.0% 0.5% 1.0% 1.5% 2.0% 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q Change in GDP Change in Building Volume Change in Building Starts 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 C h a n g e in G D P ( Q -o n -Q , % ) C h a n g e in B u ild in g V o lu m e a n d S ta rt s ( Q -o n -Q , % ) Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Thangaraj, R K and Chan, T K (2012) ‘The effects of the global financial crisis on the Australian building construction supply chain’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 12 (3) 16-30 18 developers and Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (A-REITs). Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Sales Revenue Building Material Suppliers (Change, % year-on-year) 19,926 20,961 5.2% 24,454 16.7% 23,775
    keywords: analysis; assets; asx; australasian journal; australian; australian building; building; building construction; building contractors; building material; business; capital; chain; change; cogs; companies; company; construction; construction companies; construction economics; construction supply; contractors; cost; crisis; current; debt; developers; distress; drop; economics; effects; equity; estate; expenses; failure; financial; financial crisis; financial year; gfc; global; global financial; government; group; impact; industry; interest; investment; journal; large; liabilities; limited; ltd; management; margin; market; material; net; performance; period; profit; profitability; properties; property; property developers; pty; quick; ratio; real; reduced; reits; revenue; sectors; stimulus; study; suppliers; supply; table; thangaraj; total; year
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        item: #89 of 394
          id: ajceb-2658
      author: Oke, Ayodeji Emmanuel; Ogunsami, Deji Rufus; Ogunlana, Stephen
       title: Establishing a common ground for the use of structural equation modelling for construction related research studies
        date: 2012-09-11
       words: 2693
      flesch: 35
     summary: The study also recommended appropriate sample size as well as cut-off value for various required goodness- of-fit tests of SEM model. Research Methodology A review of existing literature in the area of SEM was carried out with emphasis on differences in approaches, software programs, sample size, data and respondents' type as well as necessary tests required in the final selection of SEM model.
    keywords: 0(no; analysis; approaches; appropriate; bagozzi; building; common; construction; data; economics; equation; equation modelling; et al; fit; goodness; ground; journal; management; methods; modelling; oke; pls; programs; related; research; sample; selection; sem; size; software; structural; structural equation; studies; tests; use; variables
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        item: #90 of 394
          id: ajceb-2662
      author: Best, Rick
       title: International comparisons of cost and productivity in construction: a bad example
        date: 2012-09-11
       words: 3938
      flesch: 49
     summary: Australian Construction Handbook, 30 th edition, Rawlhouse Publishers, Perth The Economist (2012) Big Mac Index, Accessed 21 June 2012 http://www.economist.com/node/21542808 Turner & Townsend (2012) International construction cost survey 2012 http://www.turnerandtownsend.com/construction-cost-2012/_16803.html Vermande, H. and van Mulligen, P-H. (1999) ‘Construction costs in The Netherlands in an international context’, Construction Management and Economics, 17, 269-283 Walsh, K. and Sawhney, A. (2002) International Comparison of Cost for the Construction Sector: Keywords: International comparisons, Construction costs, Purchasing power parities, Productivity Introduction The following appeared in in a leading national newspaper in June 2012 (Hepworth 2012) Landmark research to be released today finds that, compared with the US, airports are 90 per cent more expensive to deliver, hospitals 62 per cent, shopping centres 43 per cent and schools 26 per cent.
    keywords: annual; aud; aus; aus cost; australasian; australia; average; bca; best; building; comparisons; construction; conversion; cost; currency; data; davis; difference; economics; example; exchange; hospitals; international; journal; langdon; power; ppps; productivity; projects; purchasing; rate; report; results; shopping; table; townsend; turner; usd
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        item: #91 of 394
          id: ajceb-2724
      author: Arashpour, Mehrdad; Shabanikia, Majeed; Arashpour, Mohammadreza
       title: Valuing the contribution of knowledge-oriented workers to projects: a merit based approach in the construction industry
        date: 2015-10-15
       words: 5336
      flesch: 37
     summary: Keywords: Construction industry, knowledge-oriented workers, salary scale formulation Introduction As a rule of thumb the objective of any payment system is to attract, hold, and motivate employees. Replication of this study in construction industries in other regions of the world is recommended.
    keywords: analysis; approach; arashpour; australasian; australasian journal; building; companies; compliance; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contribution; creativity; economics; employees; engineers; experience; factors; groups; human; important; industry; international; job; journal; knowledge; leadership; level; management; managers; mean; merit; norms; organisation; outcomes; paper; performance; perspectives; professional; projects; quality; research; resource; respondents; results; salary; scale; significant; skills; survey; system; table; tasks; test; university; values; workers; working
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        item: #92 of 394
          id: ajceb-2743
      author: Stevens, Matt
       title: Construction item pricing for more profit and less risk
        date: 2012-09-11
       words: 523
      flesch: 58
     summary: Price USD 34.95, ZAR 265.00 David Cattell has written the next evolution in construction pricing approaches and strategies. Construction pricing is the first opportunity for construction firms to improve a project’s financial outcome.
    keywords: approaches; book; cattell; construction; decision; making; model; pricing; profit; risk; work
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        item: #93 of 394
          id: ajceb-2749
      author: Wang, Xiangyu
       title: BIM Handbook: A guide to Building Information Modeling for owners, managers, designers, engineers and contractors
        date: 2012-09-14
       words: 760
      flesch: 42
     summary: For example, Groupware (computer-supported collaborative work) and Social Network Software (SNS) can potentially be integrated with existing BIM tool to better support BIM’s collaborative capabilities. The book emphasizes more the business and organizational issues of BIM implementation than the detailed technical aspects of BIM technologies and tools.
    keywords: aspects; bim; book; building; business; collaboration; computing; handbook; issues; reality; review; simulation; standards; technologies; tools
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        item: #94 of 394
          id: ajceb-2751
      author: Gerard De Valence
       title: ajceb-2751
        date: 2012-09-17
       words: 3607
      flesch: 46
     summary: So, are management theories of production product-based or process-based? Processes are secondary, because they are bundled with the production decision, and despite the appearance of diversity in the range of management theories, the approach taken typically treats the firm as a ‘black box’ that turns inputs into outputs using a range of capabilities (Porter 1980).
    keywords: application; approach; bennett; book; building; companies; concepts; construction; construction management; data; delivery; design; different; economics; efficiency; factors; idis; important; industry; koskela; lean; management; new; oxford; performance; processes; production; products; project; propositions; radosavljevic; range; relationships; research; teams; theories; theory; total; valence; value
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        item: #95 of 394
          id: ajceb-2808
      author: Dada, Joshua Oluwasuji; Jagboro, Godwin Onajite
       title: Core skills requirement and competencies expected of quantity surveyors: perspectives from quantity surveyors, allied professionals and clients in Nigeria
        date: 2015-10-15
       words: 7301
      flesch: 33
     summary: However, the general literature on quantity surveying skill and competence illustrates a multiplicity of perspectives (Nkado and Meyer, 2001; Crafford and Smallwood, 2007; Babalola, 2009). In the built environment, the art of selecting the required skills and competencies expected of quantity surveyors and understanding the inherent dependencies between them remains a research issue.
    keywords: administration; allied; analysis; arbitration; australasian; australasian journal; basic; building; business; civil; classification; clients; competencies; computer; construction; construction economics; contract; control; core; core competencies; core skills; cost; dada; development; documentation; economics; engineering; estimating; expected; financial; findings; heavy; important; information; international; interpersonal; jagboro; journal; knowledge; leadership; literacy; management; marketing; mean; measurement; nigeria; optional; perspectives; planning; practice; procurement; professionals; project; quantification; quantity; quantity surveyors; range; requirement; research; respondents; results; rics; services; skills; skills requirement; special; studies; study; surveying; system; technology; training; value
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        item: #96 of 394
          id: ajceb-2830
      author: Jaafar, Mastura; Mohd Radzi, Nurhidayah
       title: Level of satisfaction and issues with procurement systems used in the Malaysian public sector
        date: 2013-03-08
       words: 8917
      flesch: 38
     summary: These organizations were selected because they are the actual players in the construction industry, and they have important roles in managing project procurement systems. An introduction to Building Procurement Systems, Spon PR, London Mbachu, J.I & Nkado, R. (2006) Conceptual framework for assessment of client needs and satisfaction in the building development process’, Construction Management and Economics, 24 (1), 31-44 Migliaccio, G.C., Bogus, S.M & Chen, A. (2010) ‘Effect of duration of Design-Build procurement on performance of transportation projects’, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2151, 67-73 Neighbour, K. (2000) ‘The clients’ guide to construction projects: Best practices for the procurement and delivery of a project’, RAIA, accessed at: http://aca.org.au/wp- content/uploads/2009/12/a_guide_to_construction_projects_2006-publication_issue.pdf on 11th Oct 2012 http://www.fab.utm.my/download/ConferenceSemiar/ICCI2006S4PP12.pdf Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Jaafar, M and Radzi N M (2013) ‘Level of satisfaction and issues with procurement systems used in the Malaysian public sector’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 13 (1) 50-65 65 Nitithamyong, P. & Tan, Z. (2007) ‘Determinants for effective performance of external project management consultants in Malaysia’, Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 14 (5), 463-478 Ofori, G. (2007) ‘Procurement reform: A research agenda for construction in developing Countries’, Proceeding of CIB World Building Congress, Cape Town, South Africa Pratt, R. (2000) Project management in Malaysia, some ideas on the way ahead, paper presented at Asia Pacific Diligence Sdn Bhd seminar, Project management: strategies, techniques, operations and control, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Puerto, C.L.D., Gransberg, D.D & Shane, J.S (2008) ‘Comparative analysis of owner goals for design/build projects’, Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, 24 (1), 32-39 Rahman, H.A., Wang, C. & Yap, X.W. (2010) ‘How professional ethics impact construction quality: Perception and evidence in a fast developing economy’, Scientific Research and Essays, 5 (23), 3742-3749 Ramus, J., Birchall, S. & Griffiths, P. (2006) Contract Practice for Surveyors (Fourth Edition), Elsevier, Great Britain Rashid, R.A., Taib, I.M., Ahmad W.N.W, Nasid M.A, Ali, W.N.W. and Zainordin, Z.A. (2006) ‘Effect of procurement systems on the performance of construction projects’, available at http://eprints.utm.my/790/1/Procurement_performanceRosli.pdf (accessed Sept 2011) Rashid, K.B.A., & Morledge, R. (1998) ‘Construction procurement processes in Malaysia: constraints and strategies’, paper presented at the 14th Annual ARCOM Conference Roodhooft, F. & Abbeele, A.V.D. (2006) ‘Public procurement of consulting services: Evidence and comparison with private companies’, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 19 (5), 490-512 Rwelamila, P.D & Meyer, C. (1999) ‘Appropriate or default project procurement system’, Cost Engineering, 41 (9), 40-44 Skitmore, R.M., & Marsden, D.E. (1988) ‘Which procurement system?, Towards a universal procurement selection technique’, Construction Management and Economics, 6 (3), 71-89 Smith, J., Zheng, B., Love, P.E.D. & Edwards, D.J. (2004) ‘Procurement of construction facilities in Guangdong Province, China: factors influencing the choice of procurement method’, Facilities, 22 (5), 141-148 Soon, T.K. (2010) ‘Dispute resolution in relation to delay in construction project’, unpublised Msc thesis, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Tabish, S.Z.S., & Jha, K.N. (2010) ‘Identification and evaluation of success factors for public construction projects’, Construction Management and Economics, 29 (8), 809-823 Toor, S.U.R. & Ogunlana, S.O. (2008) ‘
    keywords: alpha; alternative; australasian; australasian journal; bill; building; capabilities; capability; cidb; client; company; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction projects; consultants; contractor; cost; countries; d&c; d&c system; delivery; design; development; different; dispute; dominant; economics; engineering; et al; example; experience; government; high; highest; implementation; industry; international; issues; jaafar; journal; lack; level; lsbq; lsds; main; major; malaysian; malaysian construction; malaysian public; management; mean; methods; needs; new; number; numerous; parties; performance; players; practice; private; problems; process; procurement; procurement systems; project; public; public procurement; public sector; quality; quantities; quantity; radzi; research; respondents; results; risk; satisfaction; sector; study; success; surveyors; system; table; terms; time; traditional; traditional procurement; turnkey; use; value; work
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        item: #97 of 394
          id: ajceb-2871
      author: Saha, Swapan; Greville, Colin; Mullins, Trevor
       title: Optimisation of Construction Process Inspection Rates using a Learning Approach
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 5786
      flesch: 51
     summary: Therefore, optimisation of inspection costs based on certain quality levels would be valuable. The minimum cost model (MCM) is developed using different categories of quality costs, namely prevention cost, appraisal cost and failure/rectification cost.
    keywords: acceptance; appraisal; approach; aql; australian; average; building; confidence; construction; construction process; contractor; cost; curve; defective; distribution; double; economics; equation; error; example; failure; figure; industry; inspection; items; journal; learning; level; lot; ltpd; method; minimum; model; number; optimisation; optimum; owner; page; plan; prevention; probability; process; project; proportion; quality; rates; ratio; risk; saha; sample; sample size; sampling; sampling plan; size; swapan; task; testing; total; value
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        item: #98 of 394
          id: ajceb-2872
      author: Teo, Ai-Lin; Runeson, Goran
       title: Aspects of Market Differentiation in the Building Industry
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 5144
      flesch: 37
     summary: The specific aim of the study was test the hypothesis: that different markets have significantly different requirements in terms of resources, organisational structure and skills1, and to establish the main strategic aspects of the use of differentiation as a survival technique in the building industry. The hypothesis behind this paper is that different types of buildings require different types of resources and therefore are produced in what is in effect different markets, but very little is known about movements between different markets, what the opportunities and constraints are and in particular, how firms select the markets they diversify into, or how they obtain and allocate their resources between different markets.
    keywords: aspects; australian; building; building industry; change; classification; competition; construction; contractors; demand; differences; different; different markets; differentiation; economics; environment; factors; firms; goran; importance; industrial; industry; journal; lin; london; management; markets; new; niche; number; operate; organisational; output; page; power; private; product; project; residential; resources; respondents; runeson; singh; size; skills; strategy; structure; survey; survival; teo; theory; use; vol
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        item: #99 of 394
          id: ajceb-2873
      author: Stewart, Peter
       title: The Role of E-Commerce Systems for the Construction Industry
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 6442
      flesch: 39
     summary: E-business designs The adoption of e-business systems is often undertaken with a focus on maximizing value and reducing the risks associated with implementation. The BuildOnline web site provides a series of case studies that can be used to illustrate the competitive advantage of adopting e-business systems.
    keywords: access; advantage; applications; associate; australian; b2b; benefits; building; business; commerce; commerce systems; communication; companies; company; competitive; computers; construction; construction economics; construction industry; consumer; costs; customers; data; design; developments; drivers; economics; electronic; examples; exchange; improved; include; increase; industry; information; integration; internet; journal; levels; low; lower; major; management; model; new; noie; number; online; page; past; peter; physical; processes; product; professor; project; reduced; report; role; services; software; standards; stewart; systems; table; technologies; technology; transactions; trends; use; users; value; virtual; web
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        item: #100 of 394
          id: ajceb-2874
      author: Smallwood, John; Venter, Danie
       title: The Role of the Media in South African Construction Health and Safety (H&S)
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 4602
      flesch: 50
     summary: Table 6: Media aspects reviewed by editors Response (%) II Rank Media aspect Never Rarely Some- times Often Always No response Editorial 16.7 16.7 22.2 16.7 22.2 5.5 2.00 1 Photographs 38.9 5.5 5.5 22.2 22.2 11.1 1.72 2 Columns (regular) 50.0 0.0 6.3 6.3 25.0 12.6 1.31 3 Advertorial 33.3 11.1 11.1 16.7 11.1 16.7 1.28 4 Advertisements 44.4 5.5 16.7 11.1 11.1 0.0 1.17 5 Table 7 indicates that based upon an II with a minimum value of 0 (not at all) and a maximum value of 3 (extensively), contractors are the stakeholder perceived to be able to contribute most to improving construction H&S, followed by management (construction), and workers (construction). The perceived degree of attention required relative to these interventions correlates with the top four ranked stakeholders in terms of the extent industry stakeholders can contribute to improving construction H&S:
    keywords: advertising; african; asbestos; aspects; attention; australian; building; coa; construction; construction h&s; costs; danie; economics; editorial; editors; h&s; health; indirect; industry; john; journal; lack; magazines; management; mass; media; need; page; percentage; performance; poor; potential; print; relative; response; role; safety; smallwood; south; table; unsafe; value; venter; vivian; workers
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        item: #101 of 394
          id: ajceb-2875
      author: Wilkinson, Suzanne
       title: An Analysis of the Use of Information Technology for Project Management in the New Zealand Construction Industry
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 5029
      flesch: 37
     summary: The barriers to the use of the project management software raised by Doherty (1997) hold, although this more detailed research has uncovered other problems associated with project management software use. This paper discusses some of the deficiencies in the use of project management software in the New Zealand construction industry.
    keywords: analysis; auckland; australian; building; companies; construction; construction industry; control; cost; economics; experience; industry; information; information technology; international; journal; lack; management; management software; new; new zealand; packages; page; problems; project; project management; quantity; research; results; services; software; survey; suzanne; system; table; technology; time; use; wilkinson; zealand; zealand construction
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        item: #102 of 394
          id: ajceb-2876
      author: Jeary, Alan; Jeary, Ian
       title: The Influence of Flooding Risk on Infrastructure Development in Western Sydney
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 4367
      flesch: 60
     summary: The bridge at Windsor crosses the Hawkesbury river and represents a datum for the measurement of the height of flood waters. The objective of the spillway is to allow sufficient run-off of flood water in the event of an extreme event, such that the dam would not be breached.
    keywords: alan; area; australian; aware; committee; construction; data; development; economics; event; flood; flood risk; flooding; government; greater; hawkesbury; height; influence; infrastructure; jeary; journal; level; likely; management; meters; new; p jeary; population; professor; question; residents; risk; river; south; study; sydney; water; western; western sydney; windsor; year
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        item: #103 of 394
          id: ajceb-2877
      author: Cheung, Sai-On; Lam, Ka-Chi; Wong, Schek-Sau; Wong, Sik-Hung
       title: The Fee Sensitive Risk Exposures of Project Authorized Person in Hong Kong
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: 502 Bad Gateway 502 Bad Gateway nginx
    keywords: bad
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        item: #104 of 394
          id: ajceb-2878
      author: Najjir, George; Love, Philip; Runeson, Goran
       title: Issues for the Global Construction Market
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 4446
      flesch: 39
     summary: Conclusion Globalization for the construction industry and construction organisations is creating a new type of construction industry, high technology and vertically integrated that will operate side by side but totally independent of the conventional, low technology industry. Quantifying any globalization based construction industry development and any subsequent improvement in efficiency and effectiveness will not be possible if the major theses of this paper is accepted: that globalisation will create a new industry and that there will be little contact between the old and the new industry.
    keywords: 1999; australian; building; capital; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction market; control; conventional; corporations; countries; country; debate; design; developed; development; economics; et al; firm; foreign; george; global; global construction; globalization; growth; high; impact; industries; industry; industry development; international; issue; journal; large; little; local; manufacturing; market; means; multinational; najjar; najjar et; neo; new; organisations; ownership; page; perspective; press; projects; research; social; sydney; technology; trade; transfer; world; wto
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        item: #105 of 394
          id: ajceb-2879
      author: Nimcharoenwon, Pongchai; Miller, Graham
       title: Combating the 'Sick Building Syndrome' by Improving Indoor Air Quality
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 3496
      flesch: 48
     summary: The Australian Journal of Construction Economics & Building performed in two different areas: a typical air-conditioned office (3m x 3m x 2.4mH), and a room (6m x 3m x 2.4mH), which was used for testing only the effects of an air conditioning system, and the density of negative ions outside the rooms (Dneg) - about 1,500 ions/cc. DOF-NIL showed the results in terms of negative ion density (ions/cc) in the rooms, and the rate (ions/hr) of negative ions reduced by VDT’s and BC’s with +- 15% error of VDT and BC effects. The DOF-NIL formula can be used to estimate the loss in terms of negative ion density (ions/cc) by HVAC, and the rate (ions/hr) of negative ions reduced by VDT’s and BC’s.
    keywords: air; australian; building; charge; conditioning; construction; density; dof; effects; electron; energy; equation; factors; figure; formula; graham; hvac; indoor; ions; loss; materials; miller; negative; negative ions; nil; number; page; particle; pongchai; positive; quality; radiation; rate; sick; surfaces; syndrome; vdt
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        item: #106 of 394
          id: ajceb-2880
      author: Jeary, Alan
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 530
      flesch: 54
     summary: Much of our concept of values and risk in everyday life is based on the assumption that things will remain substantially similar to the way we find them now. This, second edition in year 2001, marks a successful first year for the journal, and if this edition receives the same type of feedback as did the first, then we will be well pleased with it’s reception.
    keywords: australian; building; construction; economics; edition; journal; professions; year
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        item: #107 of 394
          id: ajceb-2881
      author: Jeary, Alan
       title: Releasing Brownfields
        date: 2012-11-14
       words: 299
      flesch: 42
     summary: The publication has emerged as a result of a two year study conducted by Professor Syms in the UK, and is a response to a political initiative intended to address the question of the physical regeneration of ageing cities. Twenty case examples would be of use and interest to any who would be involved with such a problem and chapters on risk assessment, Environmental concerns, the local community‟s concerns, transport and valuing brownfield land will strike a chord with developers and local authorities.
    keywords: australian; brownfields; land; publication; redevelopment; review
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        item: #108 of 394
          id: ajceb-2882
      author: Manley, Karen; Marceau, Jane
       title: Integrated Manufacturing-Services Businesses in the Australian Building and Construction Sector
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 5845
      flesch: 44
     summary: For customised output, such services can be considered part of the manufacturing proc- ess that make the product saleable. Such services primarily involved providing clients with information regarding the characteristics of the material, product, machinery or equipment supplied.
    keywords: activity; australian; b&c; building; businesses; chain; clients; common; construction; contracts; data; design; distributor; economics; engineering; enhancement; figure; gann; greater; growth; important; installation; integrated; involvement; journal; knowledge; management; manley; manufacturers; manufacturing; marceau; markets; nature; new; no.1; number; output; paper; pappas; products; project; provision; range; related; research; respondents; role; sales; salter; scope; sector; services; sheehan; site; study; supply; survey; systems; total; value; vol.2; work
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        item: #109 of 394
          id: ajceb-2883
      author: Soetanto, Robby; Proverbs, David
       title: Modelling Client Satisfaction Levels: The Impact of Contractor Performance
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 6829
      flesch: 48
     summary: THE IMPACT OF CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ECONOMICS AND BUILDING VOL.2 NO.1 17 Table 2: List of contractor performance criteria based on clients' opinion Contractor performance criteria Code Pre-construction stage ~ THE IMPACT OF CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ECONOMICS AND BUILDING VOL.2 NO.1 13 MODELLING CLIENT SATISFACTION LEVELS: THE IMPACT OF CONTRACTOR PERFORMANCE Robby Soetanto and David G. Proverbs University of Wolverhampton INTRODUCTION Traditionally, the main participants of the construction project coalition (PC) are the client, the architect and the contractor.
    keywords: 0–10; analysis; assessment; assessor; attitude; attributes; australian; beck; beta; building; case; client; client satisfaction; company; construction; contractor; contractor attributes; contractor performance; control; cost; criteria; data; david; design; deviation; dimensions; ease; economics; experience; factor; health; i.e.; impact; importance; independent; influence; journal; levels; lewis; likely; likert; likert 0–10; london; management; measures; medium; method; modelling; models; multiple; nature; no.1; nominal; number; order; participants; past; perception; performance; personnel; power; project; proverbs; quality; quantitative; regression; reliability; reputation; research; robby; safety; satisfaction; satisfaction levels; selection; site; soetanto; standard; table; technique; terms; time; validity; variables; variations; vol.2; weights; work; years
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        item: #110 of 394
          id: ajceb-2884
      author: Francis, Valerie; Lingard, Helen
       title: The Case for Family-Friendly Work Practices in the Australian Construction Industry
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 6080
      flesch: 55
     summary: While it may be difficult to provide on-site child care centres due to the limited space and tempo- rary nature of construction work, other options for child care provision which con- struction companies may be able to provide include employer contributions towards employees' child care fees. Construction firms serious about attracting and retaining staff may consider the provi- sion of paid parental leave or offering part- time work to their male and female employees.
    keywords: abs; attitudes; australian; balance; bourke; building; bureau; canberra; care; career; cat; change; child; children; companies; construction; couples; dual; economics; employees; employment; families; family; family responsibilities; fathers; friendly; government; home; hours; income; industry; issues; job; journal; leave; life; likely; male; management; managers; marital; marriage; mothers; needs; new; no.1; number; organisational; parents; participation; policies; practices; printing; professional; quality; research; responsibilities; russell; service; statistics; time; vol.2; women; work; workers; workforce; working; workplace; years
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        item: #111 of 394
          id: ajceb-2885
      author: Ling, Florence; Leong, Edwin
       title: Performance of Design-Build Projects in terms of Cost, Quality and Time: Views of Clients, Architects and Contractors in Singapore
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 6558
      flesch: 59
     summary: It is therefore necessary to determine the performance levels of DB projects in terms of their time, cost and quality, so that when this procure- ment method is used the parties enter into the contract with full knowledge of what DB can and cannot achieve. The objective of this paper is to determine the performance of DB projects from the Singapore clients’, architects’ and contrac- tors’ points of views, and to compare these views.
    keywords: akintoye; architects; arrangement; australian; bennett; better; bid; budget; build; build projects; building; chan; clients; construction; contractors; cost; db projects; design; economics; engineering; faster; functional; good; industry; journal; ling; management; method; ndekugri; no.1; overall; owner; pain; performance; private; procurement; projects; public; quality; respondents; results; sector; singapore; stage; study; survey; table; technical; terms; time; traditional; turner; usa; use; value; views; vol.2; workmanship
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          id: ajceb-2886
      author: Jefferies, Marcus; Chen, Swee; Conway, Jane
       title: Assessment of Professional Competence in a Construction Management Problem-based Learning Setting
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 5909
      flesch: 41
     summary: The assessment of these elements of com- petence is simply on a ‘satisfactory’ or ‘not satisfactory’ basis, consistent with other forms of competency based assessment. On the other hand, there was also a significantly positive response which saw competency based education and training as benefiting higher education in clarifying in- tended outcomes of undergraduate pro- grammes, particularly in relation to workplace requirements.
    keywords: approach; appropriate; assessment; australian; building; case; chen; competencies; competency; construction; construction management; context; conway; courses; criteria; curriculum; development; discipline; economics; education; evaluation; evidence; framework; goals; higher; higher education; integrated; issues; jefferies; journal; judgement; knowledge; learning; management; newcastle; no.1; objectives; order; outcomes; pbl; performance; practice; problarc; problem; process; processes; professional; professional competence; programme; research; self; skills; staff; standards; students; study; training; university; use; vol.2
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        item: #113 of 394
          id: ajceb-2887
      author: Smallwood, John; Venter, Danie
       title: The Influence of Project Managers on Construction Health and Safety in South Africa
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 7352
      flesch: 48
     summary: Table 3: Frequency at which PMs consider, or refer to construction H&S on various occasions Frequency (%) Respondents were asked to rate the three key total quality management (TQM) pa- rameters of contractor H&S, labour produc- tivity and quality on a scale of ‘very important’ to ‘not important’.
    keywords: actions; africa; aspects; australian; building; client; consequently; constructability; construction; contractors; cost; design; designers; documentation; economics; frequency; general; h&s; health; hinze; important; inadequate; influence; interventions; journal; level; management; managers; materials; meetings; midpoint; no.1; occasions; parameters; performance; pms; pre; prequalification; procurement; productivity; project; project management; project parameters; quality; rankings; related; relative; research; risk; safety; satisfaction; significant; site; situations; smallwood; south; specific; table; time; value; vol.2
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        item: #114 of 394
          id: ajceb-2888
      author: Ng, Thomas; Luu, Duc; Chen, Swee
       title: Decision Criteria and Their Subjectivity in Construction Procurement Selection
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 5664
      flesch: 47
     summary: To ensure that in-depth knowledge of procurement selection was obtained, people in the sample had to: have good theoretical knowledge and practical experience in different building procurement methods have been actively involved in the process of selecting building procurement systems understand the methods of procurement selection. This paper reports the findings of an Australian study focusing on procurement selection criteria.
    keywords: allocation; australian; bennett; building; certainty; client; competition; complexity; construction; contractor; cost; criteria; decision; design; different; economics; engineering; experience; factor; flanagan; flexibility; high; issues; journal; level; management; marsden; masterman; methods; nedo; no.1; price; priority; process; procurement; procurement selection; procurement system; project; public; quality; requirements; respondents; responsibility; result; risk; selection; selection criteria; singh; skitmore; speed; subjectivity; system; table; theory; time; university; utility; vol.2
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        item: #115 of 394
          id: ajceb-2889
      author: Lam, K.C; Cheung, S.O; Tang, C.M; Ng, S.T
       title: Capital Budgeting Evaluation Practices of Building Contractors in Hong Kong
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 6221
      flesch: 56
     summary: Capital budget evaluation A comparison of the PAs reveals that there was a general increase in the popularity of various capital budget evaluation techniques from 1994 to 1999 (Table 7), except for “risk analysis” (from 96.6% to 89.5%). A survey of capital budgeting techniques used by contracting firm in Hong Kong.
    keywords: analysis; anova; australian; budget; budgeting; building; capital; cases; computer; construction; contractors; decision; different; discriminant; economics; evaluation; financial; firms; function; group; hong; inflation; investment; journal; kong; management; methods; n=22; n=27; n=60; n=9; no.1; payback; period; planning; practices; programming; rate; required; return; risk; science; significance; size; table; techniques; usage; use; value; vol.2; way
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        item: #116 of 394
          id: ajceb-2890
      author: Awil, Ahmed; Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rashid
       title: International Markets: Malaysian Construction Contractors and the Stage Theory
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: 502 Bad Gateway 502 Bad Gateway nginx
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        item: #117 of 394
          id: ajceb-2891
      author: El-Higzi, Faiza
       title: Foreign Market Selection Factors in the Australian Construction Services Sector
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 7631
      flesch: 51
     summary: Subgroup B, on the other hand, contained strategic motivation and FOREIGN MARKET SELECTION FACTORS IN THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTRUCTION SERVICES SECTOR THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ECONOMICS AND BUILDING VOL.2 NO.1 111 market variables and subgroup C contains project, market and strategic motivation variables. FOREIGN MARKET SELECTION FACTORS IN THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTRUCTION SERVICES SECTOR THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ECONOMICS AND BUILDING VOL.2 NO.1 119 Heckscher, E. (1949)
    keywords: analysis; australian; australian journal; building; business; choice; companies; company; competition; construction; control; costs; country; degree; economics; entry; erramilli; experience; export; factors; finance; firms; foreign; foreign market; future; global; government; group; home; host; important; industry; intensity; international; international business; internationalisation; investment; journal; level; management; market; marketing; mean; mnes; mode; motivation; multinational; nature; new; no.1; operations; ostler; overseas; ownership; policy; political; potential; press; project; respondents; review; risk; root; sector; selection; services; small; smes; strategic; studies; sub; subgroup; table; tax; technology; trade; transaction; variables; vol.2; york
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        item: #118 of 394
          id: ajceb-2892
      author: Runeson, Goran; Best, Rick
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-15
       words: 519
      flesch: 42
     summary: The end result is a collection of papers that address a number of fundamental concerns that are influencing many aspects of our work in the realisa- tion of construction projects worldwide in the early part of the new millennium including health and safety (a prime concern in the recent UK report, Accelerating Change), expansion into glob- alised markets, the bundling of goods and services in the construction industry, the balancing of work and family, and some more sternly practical considerations such as the use of capital budgeting techniques and the criteria used in selecting project procurement systems. A journal can probably survive well without editors and refe- rees, but not without good authors, and we have been lucky in terms of both quality and diversity of interests.
    keywords: board; chaff; construction; editorial; editors; issue; journal; number; papers; range
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        item: #119 of 394
          id: ajceb-2894
      author: Best, Rick; Runeson, Goran
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 705
      flesch: 47
     summary: On the other hand, as both bodies have their own profes- sional journals, in which practitioner papers and articles regularly appear, we have generally steered away from papers that we feel fall into that category. In keeping with our aim of publishing papers that will be of some interest to all our readers we have also looked for clarity in the writing and reporting of research outcomes.
    keywords: good; issue; journal; no.2; papers; professional; publication; referees; research
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        item: #120 of 394
          id: ajceb-2895
      author: Drew, Derek; Kwong, Connie; Zou, Patrick; Shen, L.Y
       title: Determining the Optimal Fee-Technical Proposal Combination in Two Envelope Fee Bidding
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 4627
      flesch: 58
     summary: For Case 37 it can be seen that technical scores vary more than fee score meaning that technical score is more dominant in the aggregation and for Case 38 fee score varies more than technical score meaning that fees are more dominant in the aggregation. However, where fee score varies more than technical score, Outcome 2 (i.e. absolute low fee) is likely to occur and where technical score varies more than fee score, Outcome 3 (i.e. absolute high technical score) is likely to occur.
    keywords: absolute; bidding; cases; client; combination; commission; construction; consultant; continuum; corresponding; curve; drew; economics; envelope; fee; fees; high; highest; hong; journal; low; optimal; optimum; original; outcome; predetermined; price; proposal; score; shen; strategy; technical; technical proposal; technical score; time; total; total score
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        item: #121 of 394
          id: ajceb-2896
      author: Cioffi, Jane; Wilkes, Lesley; O'Brien, Jess
       title: Outdoor Workers and Sun Protection: Knowledge and Behaviour
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 3078
      flesch: 59
     summary: Outdoor workers are part of this high risk group and are targeted in the Skin Cancer Prevention Strategic Plan for NSW 2001–2005 (The Cancer Council NSW and NSW Health Department, 2001). LITERATURE REVIEW Some studies were found that addressed outdoor workers in Australia (Dobbinson and Knight, 2001; Parisi et al., 1999; Kimlin et al., 1998; Airey et al., 1997; Green et al., 1996; Wong et al., 1996; Girgis et al., 1994; Borland et al., 1991).
    keywords: australian; behaviour; borland; cancer; construction; council; department; dobbinson; et al; exposure; hat; health; high; information; items; journal; knight; knowledge; males; nsw; nsw health; outdoor; protection; questionnaire; risk; shade; skin; skin cancer; studies; study; sun; sun protection; use; wong; workers; workplace
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        item: #122 of 394
          id: ajceb-2897
      author: Loosemore, M; Teo, M.M.M
       title: The Crisis Management Practices of Australian Construction Companies
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 7676
      flesch: 50
     summary: The objectives were to gauge attitudes towards crisis management and the adequacy of sys- tems used to plan for and manage them. People in crisis-prone organisations also believe that crisis management is someone else’s responsibility and that they have the power to offload risks onto other parties, thereby insulating themselves from their environment.
    keywords: 1997; activities; ajceb_vol2_no2_28; attitudes; australian; building; business; committee; communication; companies; company; construction; construction companies; corporate; crisis; crisis management; critical; culture; day; disaster; economics; effective; emergency; environment; evacuation; events; evidence; example; external; general; high; impact; important; industry; information; insurance; journal; learning; levels; little; loosemore; m. m.; management; managerial; media; mitroff; need; new; no.2; organisation; past; pearson; people; planning; plans; policies; potential; practices; prepared; preparedness; press; problems; procedures; process; projects; prone; public; relations; relationships; research; resources; respondents; response; responsibility; risk; risk management; senior; sense; services; site; stakeholders; strategic; systems; teo; time; training; usa; vol.2
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        item: #123 of 394
          id: ajceb-2898
      author: Xiao, Hong; Proverbs, David
       title: An Investigation into Factors Influencing Construction Costs Based on Japanese, UK and US Contractor Practice
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 4864
      flesch: 55
     summary: AN INVESTIGATION INTO FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSTRUCTION COSTS BASED ON JAPANESE, UK AND US CONTRACTOR PRACTICE THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION ECONOMICS AND BUILDING VOL.2 NO.2 27 AN INVESTIGATION INTO FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSTRUCTION COSTS BASED ON JAPANESE, UK AND US It is also a major concern to contractors as construction cost relates closely to their competitiveness and profit- ability.
    keywords: ajceb_vol2_no2_28; analysis; australian; building; clients; concrete; construction; construction cost; construction economics; construction management; contractors; cost; cost performance; countries; data; design; economics; engineering; factors; hypothetical; independent; investigation; japan; japanese; journal; low; management; methods; model; modelling; multiple; need; no.2; overheads; percentage; performance; ppps; practice; prefabricated; prefabrication; price; procurement; production; projects; proverbs; questionnaire; regression; research; results; site; survey; table; time; unit; unit price; use; variables; variations; vol.2; xiao
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        item: #124 of 394
          id: ajceb-2899
      author: Tran, Dun; Skitmore, Martin
       title: The Impact of Culture on International Management: A Survey of Project Communications in Singapore
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 6344
      flesch: 34
     summary: Possibly due to the logical nature of thinkers, they are more likely to perceive cultural aspects and personal communication skills as the main tools for communicating with clients or customers. This paper provides the results of a small survey of 36 Singapore managers aimed at identifying the main cultural and individual factors affecting project communication.
    keywords: ajceb_vol2_no2_28; anglo; appreciation; area; australian; avoidance; barrier; cluster; communication; communication process; construction; control; correlations; cultural; culture; different; dimensions; distance; eastern; economics; effective; expatriate; external; face; far; hall; high; impact; important; individual; international; journal; lack; language; local; management; managers; national; no.2; organisational; people; personal; planning; positive; power; practices; process; project; research; respondents; singapore; skills; social; societies; style; survey; table; trust; uncertainty; understanding; values; variables; vietnamese; vol.2; way
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        item: #125 of 394
          id: ajceb-2900
      author: Bowen, P.A; Cattel, K.S; Hall, K.A; Edwards, P.J; Pearl, R.G
       title: Perceptions of Time, Cost and Quality Management on Building Projects
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 5307
      flesch: 47
     summary: Clients rate project quality as more impor- tant than project time performance, whereas contractors and consultants be- lieve that clients actually hold a converse view. The interesting finding from the responses to this question is that, contrary to the views of other project team participants, clients rate project qual- ity as more important than project time per- formance.
    keywords: answer; architects; australian; brief; building; choice; clients; construction; consultants; contractors; control; conventional; cost; design; economics; engineers; expectations; groups; journal; majority; management; managers; needs; no.2; objectives; outset; perceptions; procurement; procurement systems; project; project time; quality; quality management; quantity; question; respect; respondents; south; surveyors; systems; table; team; time; vol.2
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        item: #126 of 394
          id: ajceb-2901
      author: Janet, Xin; Lam, Ka-Chi
       title: Building a House Prices Forecasting Model in Hong Kong
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 7694
      flesch: 61
     summary: Bajic (1983) suggests that the market is not generally in short run equilib- rium and that changes in housing prices are frequent and rapid, while DiPasquale and Wheaton (1994) suggest that there is, in- stead, a continuous adjustment as actual prices converge towards equilibrium prices. Reichert (1990) suggests that national economic factors such as mortgage rates, and local factors such as population shifts, employment and income trends have a unique impact on housing demand, and thus on housing price.
    keywords: adjusted; ajceb_vol2_no2_28; analysis; australian; building; case; cent; changes; chi; construction; consumer; costs; data; demand; demographic; department; domestic; economics; empirical; equation; factors; figure; finance; forecasting; form; future; government; growth; hang; hong; hong kong; house; house prices; household; housing; housing market; housing prices; impact; income; increase; independent; index; indicators; inflation; interest; investment; janet; journal; kong; lam; land; macroeconomic; market; metropolitan; model; mortgage; new; no.2; number; period; policy; population; prices; private; property; quarter; rate; real; reduced; regional; residential; run; seng; series; statistics; stock; study; supply; table; time; total; urban; variables; vol.2; xin
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        item: #127 of 394
          id: ajceb-2902
      author: Mills, Anthony; Smith, Jim; Love, Peter
       title: Barriers to the Development of SME's in the Australian Construction Industry
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 4683
      flesch: 43
     summary: The study by Smith et al. (2000) looked at the demand and supply factors that influence regional construction markets. Alternatively, changes in market dimensions may mean that regional construction markets are no longer viable.
    keywords: ajceb_vol2_no2_28; areas; australian; australian construction; average; barriers; builders; building; companies; competition; construction; construction industry; contractors; development; difficulties; difficulty; distance; economics; factors; firms; government; groups; industry; information; journal; large; likert; market; mean; metropolitan; no.2; non; operational; problems; projects; regional; regional areas; regional construction; regional contractors; research; results; size; small; sme; smith; staff; table; training; victoria; vol.2; work
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        item: #128 of 394
          id: ajceb-2903
      author: Langston, Craig
       title: RED MAN GREEN MAN
        date: 2012-11-17
       words: 7
      flesch: 90
     summary: 502 Bad Gateway 502 Bad Gateway nginx
    keywords: bad
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        item: #129 of 394
          id: ajceb-2905
      author: Stewart, Peter
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-18
       words: 351
      flesch: 47
     summary: The first paper sees Jackson examining the need to apply cost control techniques for capital works projects , finding that budget performance relies on the implementation of formal cost control processes. Pro f. Peter Stewarl Head, Deparlment of Building and Construction Economics RMIT University Welcome to the first issue of The Australian Journal of Construction Economics and Building for 2003.
    keywords: assoc; australian; building; construction; design; economics; journal; paper
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        item: #130 of 394
          id: ajceb-2912
      author: Stewart, Peter
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-18
       words: 615
      flesch: 58
     summary: He argues that to achieve these reforms then we will need to fundamentally change the way that construction projects, construction companies and the government-industry interface are managed. Oyedele, Jaiyeoba and Fadeyi then identify the five most important design factors influencing the quality of building projects.
    keywords: australian; building; construction; economics; industry; journal; paper; professional; projects; research; work
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        item: #131 of 394
          id: ajceb-2914
      author: Mills, Anthony
       title: Property and Construction Professions: The Views of Industry Leaders
        date: 2012-11-18
       words: 3843
      flesch: 45
     summary: The views of industry leaders Anthony Mills, (Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melboume,Australia) ABSTRACT The role of professionals has changed significantly, and so too should the role of professional societies. The future is very unclear, and it is likely that professional societies will continue to change and adapt.
    keywords: addition; api; architects; australian; benefits; building; clients; commission; community; compulsory; construction; cost; cpo; development; engineers; government; high; important; industry; institute; insurance; interviews; issue; leaders; level; members; mills; people; president; professional; professional societies; property; public; questions; recognition; research; role; societies; status; table; transcript; victoria
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        item: #132 of 394
          id: ajceb-2928
      author: Zou, Patrick
       title: Knowledge Management Practice in Two Australian Architecture-Engineering-Construction (AEC) Companies
        date: 2012-11-18
       words: 50634
      flesch: -1020
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        item: #133 of 394
          id: ajceb-2929
      author: Hu, Eric; Zou, Linda; Langston, Craig
       title: A New Interlink Decision Making Index for Making Multi-criteria Decision
        date: 2012-11-18
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      author: Wong, James; Chan, Albert; Chiang, Y.H
       title: A Critical Review of Forecasting Models to Predict Manpower Demand
        date: 2012-11-18
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      author: Francis, Valarie
       title: Supportive Organisational Cultures and their effects on Male Civil Engineers
        date: 2012-11-19
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      author: Jefferies, Marcus; Chen, Swee Eng
       title: Identifying Risk Factors of Boot Procurement: A Case Study of Stadium Australia
        date: 2012-11-19
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        item: #137 of 394
          id: ajceb-2937
      author: Sawalhi, Nabil; Enshassi, Adnan
       title: Application of Project Time Management Tools and Techniques to the Construction Industry in the Gaza Strip
        date: 2012-11-19
       words: 4786
      flesch: 52
     summary: The Palestinian contractors union, engineering syndicates, and continuous education programs should focus more in conducting training courses and seminars for local engineers in order to improve the usage of project management tools and to overcome the identified obstacles towards the non-efficient applications of time management tools. The researchers concluded that the most significant obstacle in implementing project management tools is the lack of knowledge of project management techniques.
    keywords: allocation; bar; breakdown; building; charts; companies; construction; contracting; contractors; efficient; employees; figure; gaza; importance; industry; journal; knowledge; lack; level; management; management tools; number; obstacles; owners; pmtt; population; practices; project; project management; public; resource; respondents; schedule; scheduling; significant; strip; study; table; techniques; time; time management; tools; total; updating; use; work
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        item: #138 of 394
          id: ajceb-2938
      author: Blismas, Nick; Gibb, Alistair; Pasquire, Christine
       title: Assessing Project Suitability for Off-site Production
        date: 2012-11-19
       words: 4577
      flesch: 45
     summary: [Vol 5, No 1] � 2 Assessing Project Suitability for Off-site ProductionNick Blismas (RMIT University, Australia), Alistair Gibb (Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom) and Christine Pasquire (Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom) ABSTRACT Implementation of off-site production on construction projects is often hindered by a number of specific process and procurement constraints. These constraints are largely influenced by decisions within the control of construction clients, suggesting that they have a significant influence over the adoption of off-site production into construction projects.
    keywords: adoption; advice; assembly; assessment; australian; benefit; blismas; building; chain; ciria; clients; constraints; construction; cost; data; decisions; design; development; drivers; early; economics; evaluation; experience; factors; figure; gibb; iai; immprest; implementation; industry; information; instrument; journal; limited; loughborough; lowest; need; osp; penalty; process; procurement; production; project; research; responses; score; site; standardisation; supply; survey; table; team; toolkit; university; use; value; vol; workshops
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        item: #139 of 394
          id: ajceb-2940
      author: Motawa, Ibrahim
       title: A Systematic Approach to Modelling Change Processes in Construction Projects
        date: 2012-11-19
       words: 8611
      flesch: 64
     summary: A prototype change process system was proposed and included a set of 27 best practices for project changes. Keywords: project change management, modelling processes, evaluation.
    keywords: affected; analysis; approach; australian; building; c ha; case; categories; causes; change; change causes; change effects; change management; change process; characteristics; cii; client; consequences; construction; cost; criteria; decision; design; developed; different; direct; early; economics; effective; effects; elements; engineering; evaluation; figure; generic; identification; impact; implementation; industry; information; international; involved; io n; issues; iti; ity; journal; knowledge; level; main; management; model; modelling; motawa; multiple; need; ng e; p ro; process; processes; project; project change; relationships; requirements; research; result; role; stage; system; team; time; vol; work
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        item: #140 of 394
          id: ajceb-2941
      author: Ng, Thomas; Luu, Chris; Skitmore, Martin
       title: Capitalising Experiential Knowledge for Guiding Construction Procurement Selection
        date: 2012-11-19
       words: 4700
      flesch: 30
     summary: Kamara, J.M., Anumba, C.J. and Carrillo, P.M. (2002), ‘A CLEVER approach to selecting a knowledge management strategy’, International Journal of Project Management, vol.20, no.3, pp.205-211. Kolodner, J. (1993), Case-Based Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, USA. Kumaraswamy, M. and Dissanayaka, S. (2001), ‘Developing a decision support system for building project procurement’, Building and Environment, vol.36, no.3, pp.337-349. Love, P.E.D., Skitmore, R. M. and Earl, G. (1998), ‘Selecting a suitable procurement system for a building project’, Construction Management and Economics, vol.16, pp.221-233. Luu, D.T., Ng, S.T. & Chen, S.E. (2003), ‘Parameters governing the selection of procurement system – an empirical survey’, Engineering, Architectural and Construction Management, (in press). Masterman, J.W.E. and Duff, A.R. (1994), ‘The selection of building procurement systems by client organzations’, in proceedings of the 10th Annual ARCOM Conference, Loughborough University of Technology, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Leicestershire, 14-16 September, R.M. Skitmore and M. Betts (eds.), vol.2, pp.650-659.
    keywords: approach; australian; building; case; cbr; characteristics; client; construction; construction management; construction procurement; cost; cps; current; decision; design; economics; engineering; environment; external; features; figure; formulation; historic; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; management; masterman; method; model; needs; new; outcome; particular; pertinent; previous; problem; process; procurement; procurement selection; procurement system; project; project procurement; psps; reasoning; requirements; retrieved; score; selection; similar; skitmore; solution; stage; suitable; system; time; university; vol; weightings
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        item: #141 of 394
          id: ajceb-2942
      author: Lingard, Helen
       title: Balancing Study and Paid Work: The Experiences of Construction Undergraduates in an Australian University
        date: 2012-11-19
       words: 5863
      flesch: 52
     summary: Hours in paid employment Table 1 shows the least and most number of hours students reported working in paid work in any week during the month prior to the survey. Hours spent at University Table 3 shows the number of hours students indicate that they spend at university in a normal week.
    keywords: absorption; analysis; australian; bpc; building; burnout; component; conflict; construction; course; curtis; cynicism; difficult; economics; education; employment; engagement; example; exhaustion; experiences; extent; high; hours; impact; industry; items; journal; lectures; life; lucas; maslach; mbi; mean; median; number; outcomes; participation; property; questionnaire; research; respondents; results; sample; scales; schaufeli; semester; stress; students; study; survey; table; time; tutorials; university; uwes; vigour; vol; week; work; worked; year
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        item: #142 of 394
          id: ajceb-2943
      author: Nesan, Jawahar
       title: Factors Influencing Tacit Knowledge in Construction
        date: 2012-11-19
       words: 8857
      flesch: 37
     summary: Tacit knowledge sharing is more critical especially to construction organisations to achieve competitiveness due to the following reasons: unlike manufacturing and other sectors, due to the temporary nature of and short-term relationships between project teams, the transfer of knowledge from one project to the next and from one firm to the other becomes extremely difficult; construction knowledge is often tacit, retained by the individuals and organisations and finally disappears once the project is closed out; the fragmented nature of the construction environment; and several unprecedented problems are solved during the project, which are difficult to document for others to learn. The greatest challenge is that construction knowledge, often being tacit, retained by the individuals and organisations, finally disappears once the project is completed.
    keywords: ability; approach; appropriate; australian; autonomy; barrett; behaviours; building; business; change; characteristics; communication; construction; construction knowledge; construction organisations; creative; creativity; critical; cultural; culture; decision; design; development; discussion; economics; effective; employees; empowerment; environment; et al; experience; face; factors; figure; firms; ideas; individuals; industry; influence; information; innovation; involvement; jawahar; job; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; knowledge productivity; knowledge sharing; lack; leadership; learning; level; long; making; management; martins; members; motivation; nature; nesan; new; open; opportunities; organisational; o’reilly; paper; parameters; parties; partnering; people; performance; personal; practices; problem; process; productivity; project; quick; relationships; share; sharing; skills; solving; specific; structure; support; tacit knowledge; team; technology; terblanche; term; time; training; transfer; trust; tushman; values; vol; work; work practices; working
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        item: #143 of 394
          id: ajceb-2944
      author: Palaneewaran, Ekambaram; Kumaraswamy, Mohan; Zhang, Xue Quing
       title: Focusing on Best Value from a Source Selection Perspective
        date: 2012-11-19
       words: 42311
      flesch: -254
     summary: ������ ���� ������� ��������. ����-�� � ������� ������ �F ���������������� ���� ��� ���������� �� �����. � ��3 ������� �� ��� �����-�� �� ������������������ ����� ������ �����! �������������������� ����. . ��4�� ������������� �� �������� ���. � �.������ ��� ������ ����������� � � �������� ����G� # ����.��=� ����� ���� �� �������� �� ���H �0������ ������ ������+�. � ��� ���� �� ��.�� �������������. � �.������ ����� �����������# ��� � � ���.��=� ����� ����� ��#������� ��L� F������ .
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        item: #144 of 394
          id: ajceb-2952
      author: Sundquist, Jan
       title: Low Innovation among Building Material Suppliers: The Natural Level of the Trade
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 24034
      flesch: -503
     summary: �������� ��������'��� � � ���� �/� ��� ���������*���� �����������'������0� ���� ��� � $��� ���� ��0��� -����'������ ����� 1� 2 ��� ��������������������� 2����� 2������������������ 2 3� ���4 �5� 3� ���!��5 6��� �0����� ���� ����� ��� �$��� ���� ��0��� -7� 2 ��� ��������������������� 2���� 2������������������ 2 �����'���� � ���� #5� � ��5� )�� �/� ��� �������� !5� � #�5� ����������*��������� � �����'������ � �45� � 5� ������� 1��8�*���� �����������'������0� ���� ��� � . �������� ��������'��� � � ���� �/� ��� ������ ��� ���*���� �����������'������0� � ����� � ������ ������*�*�' ���� ����'� ��0��� ���� ���0������ ��� 1� 2 ��� ��������������������� 2� 2������������������ 2 3� ���45� 3� ���4!5� 6��� �0����� ���� ������� � 1�� 2 ��� ��������������������� 2�������� 2������������������ 2 �����'���� � ���� �!5� ��5� )�� �/� ��� �������� �5� #�5� ����������*��������� � �����'������ � �5� 5� �������� � 8�*���� �����������'������0� ������ � � ������� � �� ��,���� �����*��� ��� ����)��������� ���������#�A'���?�����6B :Q 0����0�#����?������ ������ � ������ ���L/ ����� ��� � �����M� �� �#���.��.�� ������� ������ ������������������.�� ������� .
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        item: #145 of 394
          id: ajceb-2953
      author: Langston, Craig
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 1004
      flesch: 49
     summary: Since the papers were written and refereed, a number of design changes have taken place as work progresses on site. Coupled with the budgeted construction cost premium of 22% for CH 2, the implications for future green buildings must surely be determined on a case-by-case basis, particularly where speculative development is involved .
    keywords: building; business; case; city; com; construction; design; energy; issue; lighting; melbourne; paper; productivity; system; university
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        item: #146 of 394
          id: ajceb-2962
      author: Melbourne, City of
       title: Preamble to Special Issue
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 3668
      flesch: 60
     summary: The CH 2 team 's design approach has resulted in a cooling technique and technology that uses water circulated through radiant absorption ceiling panels rather than a system that relies on air for cooling , as is traditional in office buildings and which requires large volumes of chilled air to be produced. This approach to the design of CH 2's ventilation system means the air supplied to occupants is specifically for breathing , which has eliminated the need to expend large amounts of energy cooling air.
    keywords: air; approach; artificial; australian; building; case; ceilings; cent; ch 2; chilled; city; conditioning; construction; cooling; council; day; design; ducts; economics; energy; environment; example; floor; fresh; green; heat; high; human; indoor; journal; light; lighting; louvres; mass; material; melbourne; natural; new; north; office; panels; plant; rating; roof; sewer; site; spaces; star; studies; study; sun; sustainable; system; team; thermal; time; use; ventilation; water; way; work
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        item: #147 of 394
          id: ajceb-2963
      author: Zillante, George
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 856
      flesch: 43
     summary: Jawahar Nesan explores the “Project-Finance” model for small contractors in the USA. This was particularly the case during the period of the Accord (1983-96) and the author concludes that the more conciliatory strategies used to minimise industrial disputes during the Accord period may provide a better basis for bringing peace to the workplace than the more confrontational policies.
    keywords: aiqs; ajceb; australian; building; construction; contractors; design; disputes; industry; institute; journal; paper; project; region; system; traditional
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        item: #148 of 394
          id: ajceb-2964
      author: Hardie, Mary; Miller, Graham; Manley, Karen; McFallan, Stephen
       title: Innovation Performance and Its Impact on Profitability Among Different Sectors in the Australian Construction Industry
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 4842
      flesch: 41
     summary: Sectors of the industry where financial security is least reliable were also least likely to innovate or to create high level innovations. Main contractors on average performed poorly on level of innovation profitability and on number of advanced practices adopted but otherwise their average ratings were positive.
    keywords: adoption; advanced; analysis; associations; australia; brite; building; business; clients; construction; consultants; contractors; development; drivers; engineering; figure; formal; groups; high; ideas; impact; industry; information; innovation; innovators; international; journal; level; likely; low; main; management; manufacturers; new; number; organisational; performance; positive; practices; profitability; programs; project; r&d; range; reported; research; respondents; result; sectors; significant; sources; staff; strategies; successful; suppliers; survey; systems; tax; technological; trade; trade contractors; training; university; zealand
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        item: #149 of 394
          id: ajceb-2965
      author: Ling, Florence
       title: Design-Build: How to Increase Its Usage and Its Impact on Architects and Contractors in Singapore
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 7612
      flesch: 55
     summary: For DB projects to be successful, owners should select DB contractors carefully (NJCC, 1985). Some owners are not willing to use DB because they feel that DB projects have lower quality than design-bid-build projects, aesthetics is compromised and maintenance issues are not considered by DB contractors (Ling et al., 2000).
    keywords: architects; arrangement; better; bid; bidding; build; build projects; building; clients; construction; consultants; contractors; control; cost; db contractors; db projects; design; develop; engineering; experience; fieldwork; finding; higher; impact; implication; industry; journal; large; level; ling; management; managers; ndekugri; need; owners; performance; point; possible; proceedings; process; procurement; projects; proposals; pure; quality; requirements; responsibility; results; singapore; single; solutions; studies; study; suitable; survey; system; table; time; traditional; usage; use; views
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        item: #150 of 394
          id: ajceb-2966
      author: Nesan, Jawahar
       title: Project Finance Model for Small Contractors in USA
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 8059
      flesch: 59
     summary: Key Words: construction financing, contractor financing, project financing, construction cash flow, financing small firms INTRODUCTION A One of the most pressing problems in construction projects is the working capital and liquidity required to support day-to-day activities. The problems associated with project financing are briefly discussed as below.
    keywords: account; adolescence; analysis; arrangement; average; bank; banker; business; capital; cash; cash flow; collateral; column; company; construction; construction financing; contractor; contractual; cost; credit; earnings; figure; finance; finance model; financial; financing; firms; flow; fund; fund account; growth; growth rate; high; higher; industry; insurance; liabilities; limited; line; management; method; model; new; new project; non; owner; parties; party; payment; period; problem; project; project finance; proposed; rate; recourse; risk; small; sub; system; table; tax; total; trust; trust fund; turnover; working; years
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        item: #151 of 394
          id: ajceb-2967
      author: Perry, L.J
       title: Industrial Disputes in the Construction Sector
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 4724
      flesch: 51
     summary: 5 Given that most employees in the construction sector are in the private sector, a comparison with the private sector union density rate is probably more appropriate; it suggests that construction sector union density is a little higher than average. Another way of viewing the changing pattern of the relative significance of strikes in the construction sector is to calculate the proportion of construction strikes to total strikes.
    keywords: abs; accord; australia; average; building; cent; changes; cole; commission; construction; construction industry; construction sector; data; density; discussion; disputes; economy; employees; figure; government; high; higher; industrial; industrial disputes; industry; inflation; issues; labour; level; low; non; paper; pattern; period; perry; phase; productivity; rate; relations; relative; report; rest; royal; royal commission; sector; statistics; strike; time; union; war; workers; workplace; years
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        item: #152 of 394
          id: ajceb-2968
      author: Kong, Ann; Gray, Jason
       title: Traditional Procurement is too Slow
        date: 2012-11-20
       words: 7092
      flesch: 53
     summary: In many cases, project designs and bills of quantities are not prepared before the contractor is selected due to the lack of design information available (Masterman 1992:31; Rwelamila and Meyer 1999:42). Buildability, as “the extent to which the design of a building facilitates ease of construction, subject to the overall requirements for the completed building” is considered to be underprovided for most construction projects (CIRIA cited in Low 2001:106).
    keywords: april; architects; asce; aspects; best; buildability; building; canada; chan; changes; cib; civil; clients; construction; construction procurement; consuming; contractors; cost; database; design; development; engineering; fragmentation; hampson; industry; interfaces; international; interviewees; journal; key; kumaraswamy; malaysia; management; masterman; members; period; phase; price; problems; proceeding; process; processes; procurement; procurement systems; project; quantity; question; reasons; result; rowlinson; separation; stage; surveyors; symposium; system; team; tender; tendering; time; traditional; traditional procurement; traditional system; turner; uncertainty; variations; walker; work
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        item: #153 of 394
          id: ajceb-2973
      author: Langston, Yu Lay; Langston, Craig
       title: Building Energy and Cost Performance: An Analysis of Thirty Melbourne Case Studies
        date: 2007-11-22
       words: 8094
      flesch: 46
     summary: The following observations can be made: • both are a means of identifying resources and measuring deployment efficiency • energy sources delivered by supplier organizations have a market price per unit that is tangible and understood • energy costs incurred during product manufacture and delivery are built into the purchase price of materials (i.e. energy costs are embedded), while operating energy costs are billed based on actual consumption • life cycle energy and LCC have similar philosophical constructs • embodied energy intensities are often obtained from financial input-output tables • there is usually a compromise or balance between initial (energy or cost) and recurrent (energy or cost) commitments • both future cost and future energy comprise uncertainty in prediction • energy and cost vary according to building scale, locality and quality of construction Project decisions that minimize energy (including GGE) or cost are likely to result in greater net benefit to owners, users and society (Bekker 1982). COST DATA Table 2 summarizes the case studies for capital cost, recurrent operating cost per annum, and energy operating cost per annum.
    keywords: alterations; analysis; annum; australian; australian journal; available; building; capital; capital cost; case; coefficient; construction; construction economics; cost; cycle; data; davis; department; design; distribution; economics; elemental; elements; embodied; energy; external; figure; finishes; fittings; gas; gfa; group; horizon; hospital; hours; housing; industry; initial; input; january; journal; labour; langdon; licensing; life; maintenance; materials; mean; melbourne; method; new; number; office; operating; operating cost; operating energy; output; paper; performance; practice; preliminaries; primary; projects; provisions; range; recurrent; redevelopment; relationship; replacement; research; services; special; studies; study; substructure; superstructure; table; terms; time; total; variation; vol7; year; zealand
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        item: #154 of 394
          id: ajceb-2975
      author: de Valence, Gerard
       title: The Significance of Barriers to Entry in the Construction Industry
        date: 2007-11-22
       words: 4940
      flesch: 47
     summary: For each of these market types the significance of entry barriers was identified, with the barrier being low, medium or high for new entrants. A combination of the two approaches gives a dozen significant barriers to entry operating in construction markets.
    keywords: analysis; australian; bain; barriers; building; cent; characteristics; clients; competition; concentration; construction; construction industry; contractors; cost; data; differentiated; economics; entry; firms; gruneberg; high; homogeneous; industry; journal; large; largest; levels; low; market; medium; monopolistic; new; number; oligopoly; perfect; press; price; product; projects; research; share; significant; size; small; specific; structure; subcontractors; trades; types; valence; vol7; work
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        item: #155 of 394
          id: ajceb-2976
      author: Greenwood, John
       title: An Examination of the Performance Based Building Code on the Design of a Commercial Building
        date: 2007-11-22
       words: 5379
      flesch: 39
     summary: The concept of alternative building design was clearly restrained on the PCEC due to City of Perth Local Council taking longer time than is necessary to issue necessary approvals. Heskestad, Atle (2000) Practical Experiences on a Systematic Method of Assessing Level of Fire Safety by Evaluating both Organizational and Technical Fire Protection Measures presented at 3rd International Conference on Performance- Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods retrieved from http://www.brand.lth.se/PBDConf/ The Australian Journal of Construction Economics and Building [Vol7, no 1] 44 Hua, Jinsong and Khoo, Boo Cheong, (2000) Application of unstructured CFD method in performance based building fire safety design presented at 3rd International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods retrieved from http://www.brand.lth.se/PBDConf/ ICC (2003) Performance Code for Buildings and Facilities, International Code Council, Falls Church, VA. Jick, DT 1979, 'Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Triangulation in Action', Administrative Science Quarterly, vol.
    keywords: abcb; alternative; alternative design; application; approach; approval; australia; authority; bca; building; building code; case; city; code; commercial; conference; construction; control; cost; data; design; design solutions; development; economics; example; fire; government; greater; health; industry; international; introduction; journal; level; local; market; methods; necessary; new; number; objectives; order; paper; pcec; performance; perth; policy; prescriptive; process; provisions; regulations; regulatory; requirements; research; respondents; safety; satisfy; solutions; state; structure; study; surveyor; systems; table; terms; time; use; vol7
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        item: #156 of 394
          id: ajceb-2977
      author: Watson, Michelle
       title: Concerns for Skills Shortages in the 21st Century: A Review into the Construction Industry, Australia
        date: 2007-11-22
       words: 5744
      flesch: 43
     summary: Rance (2005) makes reference to government underspending on training and quoted Opposition Leader Kim Beazley to state, “The problem is that we have had chronic under-investment in education and skills training”. The Employment, Workplace Relations and Education References Committee (2004) found that the apprenticeship system is built on “trade skills training” and that there is uncertainty as to whether such a method of skill development “is sufficiently enterprise focused and sufficiently specialised”.
    keywords: addition; apprenticeship; australian; australian construction; building; bureau; cfmeu; cole; committee; concern; construction; construction industry; data; demand; department; development; economics; education; education references; employers; employment; funding; future; government; group; high; immigrants; immigration; increase; industrial; industry; issues; journal; labour; level; literature; low; national; need; new; paper; people; qualifications; references; references committee; relations; shortages; skilled; skills; skills shortages; states; statistics; supply; system; table; terms; toner; training; vocational; vol7; wage; workers; workforce; workplace; workplace relations; year
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        item: #157 of 394
          id: ajceb-2979
      author: Consoli, Giustina
       title: The Architect's Dilemma: A Self Reflection in Understanding Prison Design and Construction in Private Prison Projects
        date: 2012-11-22
       words: 5726
      flesch: 42
     summary: This paper presents architect views regarding their inclusion and role as prison architects within private prison projects in Australia, spanning between 1985- 2000. Likewise, Fairweather (2000b) maintained: The perennial task of prison architects is to struggle to produce acceptable solutions in a very different and changing climate of opinion amid conflicting advice (Fairweather 2000b,p.61).
    keywords: adpsr; alternative; approach; architects; architecture; area; atlas; australia; brief; building; case; chan; consortia; construction; contractor; contractual; correctional; cost; delivery; design; development; dixon; dunham; englar; experience; facilities; fairweather; government; greater; inclusion; innovation; issues; johnston; journal; knapel; knowledge; level; management; mcconville; methods; need; number; objectives; operator; owner; parties; philosophical; philosophy; prison; prison architect; prison design; prison projects; private; private prison; process; procurement; projects; public; requirements; responsibility; role; sector; selection; state; study; understanding; university; vol
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        item: #158 of 394
          id: ajceb-2981
      author: Zou, Jian; Zillante, George
       title: Relationship Contracting: The South Australian Experience - A Case Study
        date: 2012-11-22
       words: 4820
      flesch: 42
     summary: Selection of suitable partners is very important for the success of relationship contracting projects (Walker and Hampson 2003). Fifthly, more resources and commitments from the client are required for the success of relationship contracting projects.
    keywords: adelaide; adelaide convention; alliancing; approach; australia; building; case; centre; client; collaborative; committee; conference; construction; consultants; contracting; contractor; convention; convention centre; culture; dais; design; development; documents; exhibition; extensions; figure; goals; industry; innovation; international; interviewees; journal; lessons; level; management; manager; managing; members; museum; national; objectives; optimum; outcomes; participants; parties; principles; process; project; project team; public; relationship; relationship contracting; report; research; risks; selection; significant; south; structure; study; sub; success; support; team; vision; vol6; walker; works
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        item: #159 of 394
          id: ajceb-2982
      author: Luu, Due; Sher, Wily
       title: Construction Tender Subcontract Selection using Case-based Reasoning
        date: 2012-11-22
       words: 3927
      flesch: 35
     summary: [Vol6, No 2] Subcontractor Category CASSS Recommend ations Expert 1 Expert 2 Expert3 Expert4 Excavation 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Concrete 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Structural Steel 3 subbies Agreed Added another subby Agreed Agreed Bricklayer 2 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Metal Roofing & Cladding 3 subbies Agreed Added another subby Agreed Agreed Aluminum Windows & Doors 4 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Doors & Frames 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Gyprocker 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Carpet & Vinyl 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Tiling & Waterproofing 2 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Painting 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Added another subby Agreed Metalworks 2 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Electrical Services 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Added another subby Mechanical Services 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Replace one subby Hydraulic Services 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Medical Gas Services 3 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Fire Services 2 subbies Agreed Agreed Agreed Agreed Table 4: Results of system reliability test REFERENCES Barletta, R. (1991). This paper reviews the practicality and suitability of a CBR approach for subcontractor tender selection through the development of a prototype CBR procurement advisory system.
    keywords: adaptation; agreed; appropriate; attributes; australian; building; case; casss; categorical; category; cbr; characteristics; competitive; construction; current; data; details; economics; estimators; experience; figure; financial; framework; high; hospital; implied; journal; list; logical; main; mechanical; medium; new; north; nsw; parameters; past; performance; pricing; process; project; reasoning; record; relationship; retrieval; selection; services; similarity; solution; stability; subbies; subcontracting; subcontractors; suitable; system; tender; track; type; users; values; vol6; west
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        item: #160 of 394
          id: ajceb-2983
      author: McDermotti, Peter; Khalfan, Malik
       title: Achieving Supply Chain Integration within Construction Industry
        date: 2012-11-22
       words: 4717
      flesch: 39
     summary: Love, P.E.D. (2000), Construction supply chains, European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Vol6 No. 3-4, pp. 145-7. Millett, S.J., Dainty, A.R.J., and Briscoe, G.H. (2001),Client procurement strategies:a cross- sectoral analysis, In:Proceedings 17th Annual ARCOM Conference. Briscoe, G.H., Dainty, A.R.J., Millett,S.J., and Neale, R.H. (2004), Client-led strategies for construction supply chain improvement, Construction Management and Economics 22 (2}, 193-201. Cherns,A.B., and Bryant, D.T. {1984), Studying the client's role in construction management, Construction Management and Economics 2, 177-184. Dainty, A. R. J.; Briscoe, G. H. and Millett, S. (2001a), Subcontractor perspective of supply chain alliances, Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 19, pp.
    keywords: aggregation; authors; better; building; business; case; chain; chain integration; chain management; clients; collaboration; concept; construction; construction industry; construction supply; dainty; demand; different; economics; european; figure; fragmentation; government; industry; information; integrated; integration; journal; khalfan; knowledge; management; market; mcdermott; ogc; order; organisations; paper; participants; philosophy; process; procurement; project; purchasing; report; research; salford; scm; suppliers; supply; supply chain; supply management; vol; work
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        item: #161 of 394
          id: ajceb-2984
      author: Lobo, Yadeed; Wilkinson, Suzanne
       title: The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Skills Needs in the Building Industry: Evidence from New Zealand
        date: 2012-11-22
       words: 5548
      flesch: 44
     summary: As of July 2005,restricted work for the purpose of reference of licensing practitioners involved (DoBH, 2005b) foundations, structural framing, cladding, external doors and windows, and roofing. The Australian Journal of Construction Economicsand Building [Vol6, No 21 DoBH (2005).Paper 1:Background to licensing ,objectives of licensing and implementation timetable, Expert Consultation Group Workshop, Proposed License Classes for the Building Industry, Feb 2005, New Zealand Department of Building and Housing, Wellington ,made available by a source at the Department. DoBH {2005a), Paper 4: How do we make it work{implementation implications), Expert Consultation Group Workshop, Feb 2005, New Zealand Department of Building and Housing, Wellington ,Available online at www.dbh.govt.nz, made available by a source at the Department.
    keywords: available; building; building industry; change; classes; commission; compulsory; construction; control; data; department; dobh; economic; effects; entrants; entry; future; generalist; georgiou; government; housing; http://www.dbh.govt.nz/; increase; industry; january; journal; kleiner; labour; level; license; licensing; main; new; new zealand; nzier; occupational; occupational licensing; paper; participants; place; practitioners; quality; regime; registration; regulation; research; service; shortages; site; skilled; skills; specialist; study; system; trades; training; types; victoria; voluntary; wellington; work; zealand; zealand building; zealand department
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        item: #162 of 394
          id: ajceb-2985
      author: Baccarini, David; Davis, Peter
       title: Editorial
        date: 2007-11-23
       words: 285
      flesch: 32
     summary: This paper reminds us that the participants within construction industry are becoming more interrelated and that cooperation wile b become increasing important . The variety of papers this Issue reflect the diverse range of problems and challenges facing the construction industry.
    keywords: building; construction; david; important; industry; management; paper; projects
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        item: #163 of 394
          id: ajceb-2989
      author: Davis, Peter
       title: Maintaining Relationship Based Procurement
        date: 2007-11-23
       words: 4354
      flesch: 46
     summary: Maintaining Relationship Based Procurement Peter R Davis (Department of Construction Management, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia) ABSTRACT Alliance and relationship projects are increasing in number and represent a large pool of work. Keywords: Relationship Contracting/ Maintenance, Procurement, Alliance RELATIONSHIP CONTRACTING Alliance and relationship projects are increasing in number and represent a large pool of work, for example Davis (200tJ) catalogued thirty-four Australian relationship style projects with an average value of $150 million.
    keywords: alignment; alliance; assessment; australasian; benefits; building; business; commitment; construction; davis; development; dwyer; economics; enduring; example; ford; hampson; hutchinson; individual; industrial; journal; knowledge; maintenance; management; managers; marketing; model; organisational; outcome; participants; particular; partnering; pascale; phase; place; process; procurement; project; quality; relationship; relationship maintenance; research; respondents; risk; sanders; schurr; science; selection; social; stage; strategies; successful; team; thompson; trust; value; walker; whiteley; wilson; work
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        item: #164 of 394
          id: ajceb-2993
      author: Oo, Bee-Lan; Drew, Derek; Lo, Hing-Po
       title: Comparing Contractors' Decision to Bid in Different Market Environments
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 6796
      flesch: 50
     summary: A theoretical framework for determining the minimum number of bidders in construction bidding competitions. Risk and need-for-work premiums in contractor bidding.
    keywords: aus; australian; available; behaviour; bid; bidders; bidding; boom; booming; building; case; comparisons; competition; conditions; construction; construction industry; construction market; contractors; costs; decision; department; different; economics; engineering; environment; experiment; factors; firms; government; group; higher; hong; industry; intervention; journal; kong; large; local; low; management; market; market conditions; need; new; number; odds; ofori; probability; procurement; project; proportions; recession; respondents; responses; scenarios; sin; singapore; skitmore; tendering; times; total; work
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        item: #165 of 394
          id: ajceb-2994
      author: Castell, L
       title: Adapting Building Design to Access by Individuals with Intellectual Disability
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 7375
      flesch: 47
     summary: Having established a potential scope for the problem, the paper concludes with a discussion about the associated cost implications and benefits in providing such building access. Microsoft Word - The Australian Journal of Construction Economics and Building [Vol8, No1].doc Adapting building design to access by individuals with intellectual disability L. Castell (Department of Construction Management, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia) ABSTRACT Over the last 15 years, since introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) (Commonwealth Government of Australia, 1992), there has been much discussion about the extent and nature of building access for the disabled, particularly in response to proposed revisions to the Building Code of Australia (BCA) and the introduction of a Premises Standard covering building access.
    keywords: abcb; access; appropriate; associated; australian; author; bca; benefits; board; building; business; case; changes; cognitive; colour; commission; compliance; conference; construction; cost; council; counter; dda; deputy; design; difficulties; difficulty; disabilities; disability; disabled; environment; facilities; features; general; golledge; good; government; hreoc; information; instance; intellectual; landmarks; layout; learning; location; means; mencap; minister; needs; office; paper; participants; people; person; population; premises; prime; process; processing; reception; required; requirements; research; rights; salmi; services; signage; significant; signs; standard; studies; survey; system; use; users; vol; wayfinding
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        item: #166 of 394
          id: ajceb-2995
      author: Slater, Rochelle; Radford, Antony
       title: Perceptions in the Australian Building Industry of Deficiencies in Architects' Design Documentation and the Effects on Project Procurement
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 5628
      flesch: 36
     summary: Recent surveys have found that 68% of designers and 88% of constructors within the industry feel that the standard of design documentation and specifications has declined over the past 12 – 15 years (Tilley 2005). 6.2 Resolution sought on site, placing additional drain on site personnel and trade contractor services. 7 Decreased coordination with shop drawings 7.1 Frustration felt by shop drafting technician due to lost time and late addenda notices. 7.2 Approvals and discrepancies experienced placing further strain on construction programme. 8 Fluctuating trade contractor pricing of tender documentation 8.1 Prices submitted are higher, or alternatively no allowances are made for items cited as omitted within design documentation. 8.2 Trade contractors make extra claims/ variations and extensions of time.
    keywords: additional; adelaide; approach; architects; architectural; australia; available; buildability; building; constructability; construction; construction industry; constructors; consultants; contract; contractual; control; cost; design; design documentation; development; direct; discrepancies; division; documentation; engineering; engineers; environment; experienced; fees; force; industry; information; institute; interviews; issues; items; journal; knowledge; lack; love; major; management; martin; mcfallan; new; observation; paper; participant; parties; perception; practical; price; principal; problems; process; professional; program; programming; project; quality; queensland; research; resolution; responses; result; rework; risk; services; site; standards; strain; survey; task; tender; tilley; time; trade; tucker; university; variations; work
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        item: #167 of 394
          id: ajceb-2997
      author: Tower, Marcus; Baccarini, David
       title: Risk Pricing in Construction Tenders - How, Who, What
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 6103
      flesch: 43
     summary: • Establishing long relationships with clients - The desire to establish an ongoing relationship with a client may lead a contractor to make a conscious decision to reduce their profit margin, so it is a consideration in the way they price their tender, but it is unlikely to be the cause of additional project risk. Paek, J. H. 1994, 'Contractor risks in conceptual estimating', Cost Engineering, vol.
    keywords: availability; base; competitive; complexity; consideration; construction; contingency; contractors; cost; current; damages; design; documentation; economics; estimate; estimating; experience; factors; intuition; issues; job; labour; management; manager; methods; need; online; organisations; past; people; percentage; period; price; pricing; process; procurement; project; research; respondents; risk; separate; significant; site; size; sum; table; tendering; tenders; trade; type; value; vol; work
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        item: #168 of 394
          id: ajceb-3001
      author: Motawa, Ibrahim; Kaka, Ammar
       title: Payment Mechanisms for Integrated Teams in Construction
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 4220
      flesch: 52
     summary: Keywords: Payment mechanisms, Pricing methods, Construction process. The role of payment mechanisms in construction contracts inspired many researchers to categorise the types of contracts by the types of payment mechanisms, for example: Williams (1992), O'Reilly’s (1993), Potts (1995) and Smith (2002).
    keywords: activities; adopted; appropriate; australasian; building; cash; cash flow; chain; client; construction; contracts; contractual; costs; data; days; different; economics; edition; engineering; example; figure; flow; icheme; incentive; integrated; journal; lump; main; management; map; materials; mechanisms; member; methodology; methods; payment; payment mechanisms; performance; pricing; process; project; research; site; stage; stakeholders; sum; supply; system; team; time; total; vol; walls; work
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        item: #169 of 394
          id: ajceb-3003
      author: Ng, Thomas; Palaneeswaran, Ekambaram; Kumaraswamy, Mohan
       title: Costs and Benefits of ISO9000-based Quality Management Systems to Construction Contractors
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 5091
      flesch: 50
     summary: Some observations on the issues of quality cost in construction, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 14(5), 464-481. Al-Momani, A.H. (2000) Examining service quality within construction processes, Technovation, 20(11), 643-651. Barber, P., Graves, A., Hall, M., Sheath, D., and Tomkins, C. (2000) With the introduction of ISO9001:2000, many Costs and benefits of ISO9000-based quality management systems to construction contractors S.Thomas Ng1, Ekambaram Palaneeswaran2 and Mohan Kumaraswamy1 1Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2Department of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 23The Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building [Vol 8, No 2] 3 practitioners and researchers expected the running costs could be reduced, while more benefits could be attained.
    keywords: average; benefits; building; certification; client; compliance; construction; contractors; cost; direct; economics; engineering; extent; hong; implementation; increase; industry; international; iso9000; items; journal; kong; low; management; non; overall; overrun; project; qms; qmss; quality; questionnaire; reduction; reliability; respondents; results; rework; running; satisfaction; setting; sum; survey; system; time; wastage
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        item: #170 of 394
          id: ajceb-3005
      author: Shakantu, Winston; Muya, Mundia; Tookey, John; Bown, Paul
       title: Evaluating Truck Empty Running in Construction: A Case Study from Cape Town, South Africa
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 4902
      flesch: 48
     summary: A consequence of this is that construction materials delivery vehicles, when travelling to or leaving a construction site, move full in one direction and empty in the opposite direction, respectively. The opposite is true for construction waste removal vehicles.
    keywords: activities; arrival; associated; australasian; building; c&d; cape; cent; chain; construction; data; dedicated; delivery; departure; distribution; economics; efficiency; environment; figure; industry; journal; large; levels; literature; loading; logistics; management; materials; materials delivery; movements; multi; need; number; potential; process; products; removal; requirements; research; return; reverse; running; runs; scm; significant; sites; state; study; supply; town; transport; transportation; trucks; types; use; vehicles; vol; waste; waste removal
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        item: #171 of 394
          id: ajceb-3008
      author: Langston, Craig; Best, Rick
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 440
      flesch: 49
     summary: We hope you enjoy this selection of papers, which clearly underlines the scope of AJCEB and its increasingly international readership. As Editors, we wish to build on this relevance in future issues, and therefore encourage submissions that make a clear connection between theory and practice.
    keywords: australasian; building; construction; development; economics; journal; papers; university
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        item: #172 of 394
          id: ajceb-3009
      author: Hardie, Mary; Saha, Swapan
       title: Builders' Perceptions of Lowest Cost Procurement and Its Impact on Quality
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 5722
      flesch: 47
     summary: An inexperienced owner may not be aware of the potential pitfalls inherent in the complexity of construction project delivery. In general, the competitive bidding process emphasises cost at the expense of value and the result is a widely reported problem with delivering project quality in the traditional system (Uher, 1999; Walker and Hampson, 2003; Hampson, 2005).
    keywords: australasian; bid; bidder; bidding; builders; building; client; competitive; construction; contractor; cost; customer; delivery; design; diffi; economics; engineering; general; hampson; impact; industry; innovation; issue; journal; large; lowest; management; method; needs; new; order; organisation; owner; particular; partnering; percent; perceptions; performance; price; problem; process; procurement; product; project; quality; question; relationship; respondents; response; result; satisfaction; selection; signifi; study; sub; survey; system; tender; tendering; time; traditional; unsatisfactory; value; vol; work
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        item: #173 of 394
          id: ajceb-3010
      author: Langston, Yu Lay; Langston, Craig
       title: The Inherent Building Energy-Cost Relationship: An Analysis of Thirty Melbourne Case Studies
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 7243
      flesch: 51
     summary: Embodied energy is defi ned as the energy used in building construction, including all the upstream processes such as raw material mining, manufacture, packaging and transportation to site. This ‘work output’ interpretation of embodied energy suggests the hypothesis that embodied energy values can predict economic values.
    keywords: analysis; area; australasian; australia; building; capital; capital cost; case; cient; construction; consumption; correlation; cost; costanza; costing; cycle; data; davis; defi; design; direct; economics; economy; effi; energy; environmental; figure; floor; gfa; hospital; important; independent; initial; input; journal; langdon; langston; life; line; materials; melbourne; method; ned; new; offi; oor; operating; operating cost; output; paper; performance; practice; production; project; range; recurrent; redevelopment; regression; relationship; research; residence; residual; results; services; signifi; strong; studies; study; table; time; total; treloar; unit; university; use; value; vol; work
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        item: #174 of 394
          id: ajceb-3011
      author: Jin, Xioa-Hua
       title: Allocating Risks in Public-Private Partnerships Using a Transaction Cost Economic Approach: A Case Study
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 7061
      flesch: 43
     summary: Moreover, the accuracy of the presumed transfer of a package of risks to the private sector, together with the identifi cation and valuation of project risks, are essential to the construction of a meaningful PPP project (DFA, 2005a). In the Project, construction risk was high because the design was highly complex and innovative, the constructability was accordingly Risks in the Southern Cross Station redevelopment project Financial Risk Construction Risk Transaction characteristics Asset specificity Physical assets specificity is relatively low; human assets specificity is medium Physical assets specificity is increasingly high; human assets specificity is medium Transaction frequency Low because partners had never cooperated on similar projects before Low because partners had never cooperated on similar projects before Uncertainty Relatively low because of stable and adequate legislative and regulatory system, efficient and convenient approval process, supportive community attitude, stable regional economy, and mature and stable financial and insurance markets, etc. Relatively high because of highly complex and innovative design, subsequent problematic constructability, construction contractor’s relatively scarce experience in similar projects, rigid lump sum D&C contract, and interrupted and ineffective communication among partners; and consequently contractor’s low commitment RA strategy TCE-Oriented To totally transfer to the concessionaire To share between the public client and the developer OR between the developer and the construction contractor by, e.g. cost plus contracts Adopted in the Project Totally transferred to the developer Totally transferred to the developer and subsequently to the construction contractor RMS outcome If TCE-Oriented Risk may be mitigated effectively and efficiently; Transaction costs may be reduced Risk may be mitigated effectively and efficiently; transaction costs may be reduced Actual outcome Risk was mitigated effectively and efficiently; Transaction costs were reduced Risk materialized and caused renegotiations and claims; transaction costs, such as the costs of claims and renegotiations, were greatly increased Note: RA: risk allocation; RMS: risk management service Table 1: RMS transactions and TCE-orientated recommendations for the Southern Cross Station redevelopment project The Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building
    keywords: abn; allocation; amro; analysis; approach; appropriate; asset; australasian; australia; best; building; case; city; civic; construction; construction risk; contract; contracting; contractors; costs; cross; design; dfa; dtf; economics; facility; frequency; governance; government; high; infrastructure; interchange; jin; journal; leighton; low; major; management; market; melbourne; nancial; new; nexus; optimal; paper; partnerships; policy; ppp; ppp projects; press; private; process; production; project; public; rate; redevelopment; research; risk; risk allocation; risk management; rms; roof; sector; service; southern; specifi; spencer; stable; station; street; study; system; tce; term; theory; time; trains; transaction; transaction costs; transfer; transport; uncertainty; use; vfm; victoria; vol; way; williamson; winch
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        item: #175 of 394
          id: ajceb-3012
      author: Abdul_Aziz, A.R
       title: Locational Factors and Foreign Market-entry Considerations for Malaysian Contractors
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 7731
      flesch: 37
     summary: Awil, A.U. and Abdul-Aziz, A.-R. (2002) ‘International markets: Malaysian contruction contractors and the stage theory’, The Australian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 2(1), 94-106. [Vol 9, No 1] 35 Oz, O. (2001) ‘Sources of competitive advantage of Turkish construction companies in international markets’, Construction Management and Economics, 19(2), 135-144. Peck, A., Theodore, N. and Ward, K. (2005) ‘Constructing markets for temporary labour: Employment liberalization and the internationalization of the staffi ng industry’, Global Networks, 5(1), 3-26.
    keywords: abdul; acs; analysis; approach; australasian; aziz; building; business; china; civil; companies; company; competition; concept; concern; construction; contractors; countries; country; crosthwaite; cuervo; data; decision; development; diamond; direct; disadvantages; distance; dunning; eclectic; economics; effi; empirical; engineering; entry; factors; foreign; foreignness; global; government; growth; highest; host; industry; international; international business; international contractors; internationalisation; interviewee; investment; j.h; johanson; journal; local; locational; lof; london; low; malaysian; management; market; methods; model; multinationals; narula; network; new; overseas; paper; paradigm; political; porter; psychic; public; questionnaires; questions; ranked; related; research; resource; review; scholars; seeking; size; stage; studies; study; terjesen; term; theory; vahlne; vol; zaheer
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        item: #176 of 394
          id: ajceb-3013
      author: Ofori, George; Toor, Shamas-ur-Rehman
       title: Role of Leadership in Transforming the Profession of Quantity Surveying
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 7342
      flesch: 49
     summary: It has been suggested that quantity surveyors should expand their expertise to other areas relating to construction such as facilities management, arbitration, construction law, value management, construction management and project management (Harun and Torrance, 2006). He argues that the increase in the volume of construction works in China is likely to result in the need for more quantity surveyors.
    keywords: areas; australasian; building; business; cartlidge; challenges; change; clients; competition; construction; construction industry; construction management; cost; development; economics; engineering; example; executive; future; general; graduates; greater; harun; human; important; industry; information; innovation; international; interviewees; issues; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; leadership; management; market; nancial; need; new; ofori; opportunities; order; pay; people; potential; practice; profession; professionals; project; quality; quantity; quantity surveyors; resources; rms; role; senior; services; sharing; singapore; skills; smith; south; surveying; surveying profession; surveyors; technology; time; toor; torrance; use; value; vol; work; world; years
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        item: #177 of 394
          id: ajceb-3015
      author: Langston, Craig; Best, Rick
       title: Editorial
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 414
      flesch: 48
     summary: We would like to particularly thank the numerous people who have kindly donated their time to review papers and to provide us with their advice and experience. While fi ve papers are still under consideration, we have rejected 16 papers so far this year, equating to 47%.
    keywords: building; economics; journal; papers; professor; school; university; year
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        item: #178 of 394
          id: ajceb-3016
      author: Lim, Tony
       title: Essence of Time in Construction Contracts
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 6028
      flesch: 57
     summary: The effect of time stipulations and time limitation clauses in construction contracts have traditionally been interpreted by the courts of common law and equity differently. At common law, time stipulations have been usually treated as essential terms and a failure to meet a due date will give the innocent party the right to terminate the agreement and to recover damages.
    keywords: aoki; architect; assoland; breach; building; case; cate; certifi; claim; clause; common; completion; condition; condition precedent; conduct; construction; contract; courts; damages; date; delay; employer; equity; essence; estoppel; event; extension; failure; honour; intimation; journal; law; ltd; ltd v; notice; parties; party; possible; precedent; principle; pte; reasonable time; representation; right; specifi; stipulation; tenant; terms; time; time limitation; time stipulation; works
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        item: #179 of 394
          id: ajceb-3017
      author: Tait, Patrick; Loosemore, Martin
       title: The Corporate Governance of Australian Listed Construction Companies
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 5706
      flesch: 35
     summary: Keywords: corporate governance, compliance, resilience, independence, Australian Stock Exchange. In the UK, the Combined Code (2003) emerged out of the Cadbury, Greenbury and Hampel reports and in the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002) and revised NYSE listing requirements promoted stricter standards of corporate governance (NYSE, 2008; du Plessis et al., 2005).
    keywords: annual; asx; audit; australasian; available; average; best; board; building; ceo; cgc; chairperson; chief; committee; companies; company; compliance; construction; construction companies; corporate; corporate governance; directors; disclosure; economics; executive; executive directors; financial; good; governance; group; guidelines; higher; important; independent; independent directors; industry; investors; journal; levels; lower; majority; management; members; new; nomination; non; officer; organisation; performance; practice; principles; recommendations; remuneration; reports; requirements; results; risk; sample; shareholders; size; structure; table; turnover; van; vol
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        item: #180 of 394
          id: ajceb-3018
      author: Zou, Jian; Zillante, George; Coffey, Vaughan
       title: Project Culture in the Chinese Construction Industry: Perceptions of Contractors
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 8646
      flesch: 39
     summary: The main objectives of this paper are to: • review the literature on project culture, • investigate project culture in the Chinese construction industry and its impact on the performance of construction projects, and • discuss the fi ndings and provide suggestions on how to manage culture at the project level. LIMITATIONS Previous studies about project culture have had several limitations including: • No clearly accepted defi nition of project culture, especially in the context of construction projects, resulting in signifi cant diffi culties in conceptualising and measuring the project culture.
    keywords: analysis; approach; appropriate; appropriate project; australasian; australia; better; building; business; chan; china; chinese; chinese construction; chinese culture; client; commercial; common; companies; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; construction projects; contractors; correlation; cultural; culture; defi; development; dimensions; economics; exible; features; figure; framework; future; goal; identifi; important; indicators; industry; integrative; international; international journal; interviewees; issues; journal; key; lessons; level; major; management; managers; model; ndings; objectives; opportunities; organisational; outcomes; overall; participants; parties; people; performance; practitioners; process; project; project culture; project management; project performance; project success; questionnaire; relationships; research; results; satisfaction; senior; signifi; studies; study; success; survey; table; team; vol; zillante; zuo
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        item: #181 of 394
          id: ajceb-3019
      author: Best, Rick
       title: A Refined Basket of Goods Approach for Comparing Construction Costs between Countries
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 7634
      flesch: 51
     summary: [Vol 9, No 2] 29 4 A Refi ned Basket of Goods Approach for Comparing Construction Costs between CountriesRick Best (Mirvac School of Sustainable Development, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia) ABSTRACT Most comparisons of construction industry performance require that construction costs be converted to a common base. Keywords: purchasing power parity, construction costs, international comparisons, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore.
    keywords: analysis; approach; auckland; australasian; available; average; bank; basket; best; bloc; blocks; building; class; classes; comparison; concrete; construction; construction costs; contractors; conversion; cordell; cost; countries; data; different; e.g.; economics; example; exchange; formply; formwork; hollow; hotel; icp; identifi; industry; international; items; journal; labour; locations; margins; materials; number; parities; power; ppps; preliminary; prices; pricing; project; purchasing; quantities; rates; results; semi; services; signifi; singapore; skilled; small; study; sydney; table; total; tradeable; type; unit; vol; world
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        item: #182 of 394
          id: ajceb-3020
      author: Idoro, Godwin
       title: Evaluating Levels of Project Planning and their Effects on Performance in the Nigerian Construction Industry
        date: 2012-11-23
       words: 12045
      flesch: 49
     summary: [Vol 9, No 2] 39 5 Evaluating Levels of Project Planning and their Effects on Performance in the Nigerian Construction IndustryGodwin Idoro (Department of Building, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria) ABSTRACT This study compares the level of project planning on public and private sectors projects and its impact on performance. However, the level of preparation of life-cycle charts that concern project delivery time in both public and private sectors projects is low and the level of project planning in the two categories of projects has a limited impact on project performance.
    keywords: agencies; categories; conception; conception planning; construction; construction planning; construction project; contract; contract planning; correlation; cost; design; design planning; governments; hypothesis; infl; initial; initial contract; level; management; nigeria; overall project; overrun; parameters; percentage; period; private clients; private public; private sector; project conception; project cost; project delivery; project design; project duration; project management; project objectives; project performance; project planning; project plans; project stage; project time; projects; public clients; quality; ranks; results; rst; satisfaction; sector; sector projects; signifi; stage; stage planning; study; sum; test; time; uence; use; value
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        item: #183 of 394
          id: ajceb-3032
      author: Azhar, Salman; Khalfan, Malik; Maqsood, Tayyab
       title: Building information modelling (BIM): now and beyond
        date: 2015-10-15
       words: 6685
      flesch: 31
     summary: Lack of legal/contractual agreements They indicated that the advances in BIM technology, adoption of IPD and similar project delivery systems, requirement of BIM model by project owners, and introduction of fresh graduates with BIM knowledge in the project teams will ultimately help to avoid these barriers. It also requires more time spent inputting and reviewing BIM data, which is a new cost in the design and project administration process.
    keywords: aec; analysis; applications; april; atlanta; australasian; australasian journal; azhar; benefits; better; bim; bim model; building; building azhar; building information; case; challenges; concept; conference; construction; construction economics; contractors; coordination; cost; cycle; data; delivery; design; designers; development; early; economics; engineering; engineers; equipment; et al; facility; figure; following; general; georgia; implementation; industry; information; information modeling; integrated; integration; interoperability; ipd; issues; journal; life; maintenance; management; managers; modeling; models; new; operations; option; owners; performance; phase; planning; proceedings; process; processes; programming; project; research; risks; safety; schematic; site; software; stakeholders; sustainability; systems; team; technology; time; traditional; university; usa; use
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        item: #184 of 394
          id: ajceb-3033
      author: Ma, Zhiliang
       title: A BIM-based approach to reusing construction firm’s management information
        date: 2015-10-15
       words: 4303
      flesch: 35
     summary: (1) This paper reviews the previous undertakings of this study, i.e. the classification and identification of information resource items based on literature review and an expert workshop, the representation of information resources based on the IFC standard, and managing the information resources by using object-oriented database management system. The evaluation results on information resource items were verified by holding a meeting in a construction firm which had implemented information management systems successfully for several years.
    keywords: analysis; approach; australasian; bim; building; construction; construction economics; construction firm; cost; data; database; decision; economics; entities; figure; firm; identification; ifc; information; information management; information resources; items; journal; knowledge; level; making; management; new; object; project; prototype; record; resources; reuse; standard; step; study; support; system; technology; use
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        item: #185 of 394
          id: ajceb-3037
      author: Redmond, Alan; West, Roger
       title: The use of cloud enabled building information models – an expert analysis
        date: 2015-10-15
       words: 7809
      flesch: 35
     summary: In the expert group’s opinion there is a lack of knowledge in the construction industry on the various types of construction cloud applications and due to the fragmented nature of the industry; a collaboration tool that provides interoperable software is a necessity. The respondents concern towards vendor reliability and recovering data in the previous questionnaire highlighted the barriers towards a cloud platform but also prompted measures to be investigated for BIM applications relating to contractual issues.
    keywords: agreeing; agreement; analysis; applications; australasian; australasian journal; barriers; benefits; better; bim; building; building redmond; business; cloud; cloud computing; common; computing; concept; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contractual; cost; data; design; disagreeing; economics; exchange; expert; expert analysis; expert panel; following; group; high; highest; ict; industry; information; information exchange; information models; interoperability; issue; journal; lack; legal; main; major; management; market; model; need; notion; open; opinion; opportunities; panel; previous; process; project; question; questionnaire; rank; redmond; research; respondents; response; results; service; software; solution; standards; statement; systems; use; web; west; xml
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        item: #186 of 394
          id: ajceb-3038
      author: Kasprzak, Colleen; Dubler, Craig
       title: Aligning BIM with FM: streamlining the process for future projects
        date: 2015-10-15
       words: 5279
      flesch: 32
     summary: By developing a strategic implementation plan for the information exchange process between project stakeholders, the goal is to develop a single point, bidirectional database for documenting asset lifecycle information for future facility projects. Abstract A study performed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA in 2004 found that owners account for approximately $10.6 billion of the $15.8 billion total inadequate interoperability costs of U.S. capital facility projects in 2002.
    keywords: asset; australasian; australasian journal; bim; building; campus; center; cobie; construction; construction economics; control; current; data; design; developed; dubler; eam; economics; exchange; existing; facilities; facility; future; industry; information; integrated; integration; interoperability; journal; kasprzak; lifecycle; maintenance; management; modeling; need; operations; opp; order; organization; owner; park; platform; process; processes; project; psu; requirements; research; software; specific; state; strategy; study; system; time; turnover; university; value; wcc; work; workflows
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        item: #187 of 394
          id: ajceb-3046
      author: Rameezdeen, Raufdeen; Rodrigo, Anushi
       title: Textual complexity of standard conditions used in the construction industry
        date: 2013-03-08
       words: 6431
      flesch: 42
     summary: Abstract Clearly written communication aids the understanding of construction contracts, resulting in less disputation. Past research, using opinion surveys rather than objective criteria, shows that construction contracts lack clarity and standard forms have become complex over time.
    keywords: ali; australasian; australasian journal; average; book; broome; building; bunni; chong; clarity; clauses; cloze; communication; complexity; comprehension; conditions; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contract; contract conditions; difficult; disputes; document; easy; economics; editions; engineering; fidic; forms; fres; hayes; hypothesis; industry; international; interpretation; journal; lack; language; legal; length; level; management; measures; new; number; objective; order; parties; project; rajapakse; rameezdeen; readability; reader; reading; relationship; research; review; rodrigo; score; sentence; standard; standard conditions; study; table; test; textual; understanding; wilkinson; words
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        item: #188 of 394
          id: ajceb-3047
      author: Khalfan, Malik M. A.; Azhar, Salman; Maqsood, Tayyab
       title: Editorial
        date: 2015-10-15
       words: 860
      flesch: 43
     summary: Redmond and West’s paper, “The Use of Cloud Enable Building Information Models – An Expert Analysis”, explores Cloud Computing as a centralized heterogeneous platform for enabling different BIM applications to be connected to each other through remote data servers. With BIM technology, an accurate virtual model of a facility is digitally constructed.
    keywords: applications; approach; australasian; bim; building; construction; delivery; economics; framework; information; journal; management; new; paper; project; research; university
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        item: #189 of 394
          id: ajceb-3048
      author: Leifer, D.
       title: Advanced building technologies for sustainability
        date: 2015-10-15
       words: 815
      flesch: 50
     summary: We can talk about thermal mass, control of glazing and insulation, but until we see the CFD models and the numbers, green buildings have become a design style rather than a performance specification. Trying to teach Sustainable Design of buildings without recourse to computer simulations has resulted in buildings based on some rather optimistic assertions by their designers.
    keywords: air; australian; book; building; control; cooling; design; energy; low; new; radiant; review; systems; technologies; temperature; thermal
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        item: #190 of 394
          id: ajceb-3069
      author: Sarhan, Saad; Fox, Andrew
       title: Performance measurement in the UK construction industry and its role in supporting the application of lean construction concepts
        date: 2013-03-04
       words: 7156
      flesch: 33
     summary: Although process performance measurements have received substantial attention from academic researchers over the past two decades, the construction industry still has a preference for measureing performance in terms of time and cost (Bowen et al., 2002; Forbes et al., 2002). It was also found that many organisations still depend on the experience of their managers as a means for project performance measurement.
    keywords: application; appropriate; australasian; building; concepts; conference; construction; construction concepts; construction economics; construction industry; construction journal; construction organisations; economics; et al; factors; financial; flow; fox; implementation; importance; improvement; indicators; industry; international; journal; kpis; lean; lean construction; learning; lps; management; means; measurement; measures; non; organisations; performance; performance measurement; planning; practitioners; proceedings; process; production; professionals; project; quality; reliability; researchers; respondents; results; role; rooke; sarhan; significant; study; successful; thinking; use; value; work
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        item: #191 of 394
          id: ajceb-3071
      author: Finnie, David
       title: Comparison of time adjustment clauses between DZ3910, AS4000 and STCC
        date: 2013-03-04
       words: 9402
      flesch: 54
     summary: Bailey, J. (2007) ‘What lies beneath: site conditions and contract risk’, Society of Construction Law UK. These include: Qualifying cause of delay Means; (a) Any act, default or omission of the Superintendent, the Principal or its consultant, agents or other contractors (not being employed by the Contractor); or (b) Other than: i) A breach or omission by the Contractor; ii) Industrial conditions or inclement weather occurring after the date for practical completion; and iii) Stated in Item 23; Part (a) and (b) (i) are nothing other than a clarification of the prevention principle.
    keywords: additional; adjustment; adjustment clauses; allocation; ambiguities; as4000; australasian; australasian journal; bar; buildability; building; case; claim; clause; client; comparison; completion; conditions; construction; construction economics; contractor; cost; date; days; delay; design; designer; documents; dz3910; economics; employer; engineer; entitled; eot; example; extension; finnie; general; ground; journal; law; legal; liability; new; notice; october; parties; position; prevention; price; principal; principle; project; qualifying; risk; schedule; site; stcc; structure; sum; superintendent; terms; time; time adjustment; words; work; zealand
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        item: #192 of 394
          id: ajceb-3128
      author: Jimoh, Richard; Van Wyk, Jasper
       title: Ideological leaning and praxis of housing co-operatives in South Africa: Matters arising
        date: 2013-06-18
       words: 6948
      flesch: 43
     summary: Keywords: Housing, Co-operatives, Ideology, Praxis, Principles, South Africa Housing Co-operatives in South Africa Table 2 Problems Experienced by Housing Co-operatives in Developing and Developed Countries (Source: Authors own summary) For the purpose of the summary in Table 2, the developing countries are Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Brazil, Senegal and Zimbabwe.
    keywords: act; africa; australasian; australasian journal; available; board; building; case; ccmh; committee; construction; construction economics; control; cooperative; countries; decisions; department; development; develtere; economics; finance; general; government; housing; housing co; ideological; ideology; important; institutional; interview; journal; lack; leaning; matters; meetings; members; membership; model; movement; n.d; national; open; operative housing; operatives; participation; people; phase; place; policy; praxis; principles; problems; research; richard; shf; social; social housing; south; south africa; study; subsidy; table; time; training; van; wyk; years
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        item: #193 of 394
          id: ajceb-3133
      author: Grant, Aneurin Thomas James; Hinze, Jimmie Wayne
       title: Underlying causal factors associated with construction worker fatalities involving stepladders
        date: 2013-03-14
       words: 5474
      flesch: 52
     summary: An additional objective of this study was to determine if typical manufacturers’ warnings and instructions concerning the safe use of stepladders were adequate, or if worker error and improper use were more likely to explain the causes of stepladder fatality incidents. Other trades that were involved in stepladder incidents included carpenters, demolition workers, heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) workers, steel erectors, painters, insulation workers, window installers, drywallers, and others.
    keywords: accidents; australasian; australasian journal; balance; building; causal; causes; common; components; conditions; construction; construction economics; construction worker; descending; descriptions; economics; electrical; elevation; energized; equipment; example; factors; fall; fatalities; fatality; feet; figure; grant; height; hinze; incidents; injuries; injury; instances; instructions; journal; likely; lock; narrative; practices; procedures; projects; rails; research; result; safety; stepladders; study; tasks; time; type; typical; use; worker fatalities; workers
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        item: #194 of 394
          id: ajceb-3178
      author: Albert, Alex; Hallowel, Matthew R
       title: Revamping occupational safety and health training: Integrating andragogical principles for the adult learner
        date: 2013-09-19
       words: 6336
      flesch: 30
     summary: Although very promising, the integration of andragogical principles to improve construction safety training programs is relatively new and has not been investigated adequately. (2008) provides a process model that can be used by andragogical facilitators to adopt adult learning processes into their educational and training programs.
    keywords: active; adult; adult learners; adult learning; albert; andragogical; andragogy; areas; assessment; assumptions; australasian; australasian journal; building; climate; construction; construction economics; construction safety; current; development; economics; effective; elements; environment; essential; experience; facilitator; figure; framework; hallowel; hazard; health; improvement; industry; injury; instructor; job; journal; knowledge; lack; learners; learning; learning process; level; management; methods; model; mutual; need; objectives; occupational; orientation; performance; principles; process; processes; programs; recognition; resources; safety; safety performance; safety training; self; sets; skills; step; table; traditional; training; training programs; workers
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        item: #195 of 394
          id: ajceb-3187
      author: Livesey, Peter Vincent; Bold, Justin
       title: Overcoming inadvertent barriers to entry in large infrastructure projects
        date: 2013-03-04
       words: 3134
      flesch: 34
     summary: The inference is that by repeating some of the behaviour adopted by the client on Legacy Way, it is possible that the procurement results may be replicated in part i.e. inclusion of international project teams beyond the EOI phase in a fair and transparent process. To international contractors seeking to deploy highly skilled, highly experienced resources in new jurisdictions the government’s intent is attractive, and with such capable resources on the prowl it’s no wonder the Australian Government continues to entice.
    keywords: australian; barriers; bias; biases; bold; brisbane; building; city; cognitive; companies; construction; construction economics; contractors; council; criteria; economics; entry; eoi; evaluation; experience; government; inadvertent; infrastructure; infrastructure projects; interest; international; journal; kahneman; large; legacy; livesey; market; phase; process; procurement; projects; quo; rfp; stage; status; team; tversky; way
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        item: #196 of 394
          id: ajceb-3198
      author: Stevens, Matt
       title: Managing giga projects: advice from those who’ve been there, done that
        date: 2013-03-12
       words: 413
      flesch: 58
     summary: While most construction managers may never work with projects of this magnitude, the issues presented and the discussions that follow are applicable to any size project. Starting this learning early such as in undergraduate courses makes sense since it takes many years to gain the experience to manage projects of any size.
    keywords: book; construction; experience; giga; isbn; management; projects; review
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        item: #197 of 394
          id: ajceb-3269
      author: Grant, Elizabeth Maree
       title: “Pack 'em, rack 'em and stack 'em”: The appropriateness of the use and reuse of shipping containers for prison accommodation
        date: 2013-06-17
       words: 5830
      flesch: 29
     summary: Military Guantanamo Bay - Camp Delta www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/guantanamo-bay_delta.htm Date viewed: 12th November 2012 Gower, P. (2010) ‘A night in shipping container prison’, New Zealand News, 2 nd June 2010 Grant, E. & Jewkes, Y. (2013) ‘Finally Fit for Purpose: The Evolution of Australian Prison Architecture’, The Prison Journal (forthcoming) Grant, E. Hansen, A. & Williamson, T. (2012) ‘Design issues for prisoner health: Thermal conditions in Australian custodial environments’, World Health Design, 5 (3), 80-85 http://www.csshippingcontainers.co.uk/shipping-container-conversions/shipping-containers-and-container-conversions-5-unusual-requests http://www.csshippingcontainers.co.uk/shipping-container-conversions/shipping-containers-and-container-conversions-5-unusual-requests http://www.corrections.sa.gov.au/dcs-projects/mgp-expansion http://www.corrections.govt.nz/news-and-publications/media-releases/2010-media-releases/container_cells_open_for_business_at_rimutaka.html http://www.corrections.govt.nz/news-and-publications/media-releases/2010-media-releases/container_cells_open_for_business_at_rimutaka.html http://www.corrections.govt.nz/utility-navigation/find-a-facility-or-site/find_a_corrections_facility/rimutaka_prison.html http://www.corrections.govt.nz/utility-navigation/find-a-facility-or-site/find_a_corrections_facility/rimutaka_prison.html http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/guantanamo-bay_delta.htm Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Grant E (2013) ‘“Pack 'em, rack 'em and stack 'em”: The appropriateness of the use and reuse of shipping containers for prison accommodation’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 13 (2) 35-44 43 Grant, E. (2008) Towards safer and more congruent prison environments for male aboriginal prisoners: a South Australian study (PhD Thesis) School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Adelaide Grant, E. (2009) Report on 2008 Churchill Fellowship to investigate correctional facilities for Indigenous prisoners New Zealand, Canada & Denmark, Churchill Fellowship Trust, Canberra Harding, R. (1987) ‘Prison overcrowding: In the last three years, shipping containers have been used in the prison sector as a way of managing burgeoning prison populations.
    keywords: accommodation; appropriateness; architecture; aud; australasian; australasian journal; australia; bay; beds; benefits; box; building; building grant; camp; capacity; cells; central; cold; condensation; constraints; construction; construction economics; containers; correctional; cost; date; delta; department; design; detention; economics; energy; environmental; external; facilities; facility; floor; global; government; grant; group; guantánamo; high; housing; increase; insulation; international; journal; low; management; materials; methods; modular; new; overcrowding; performance; prefabricated; principles; prison; prison accommodation; prison construction; prisoners; problems; project; reuse; rimutaka; security; services; shipping; shipping containers; site; smith; south; space; staff; steel; structural; surface; time; unit; university; use; zealand
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        item: #198 of 394
          id: ajceb-3270
      author: Windapo, Abimbola Olukemi
       title: Relationship between degree of risk, cost and level of compliance to occupational health and safety regulations in construction
        date: 2013-06-18
       words: 8577
      flesch: 29
     summary: Abstract This paper investigates the role of statutory health and safety (H&S) regulations in managing construction project risks. Construction project risks can be evaluated and ranked according to their probability of occurrence and severity of consequence within a project risk matrix (see McGeorge and Zou 2013; and Pinto 2002) as shown in Table 1.
    keywords: accidents; addition; africa; analysis; audit; australasian; australasian journal; available; benefits; building; building windapo; cape; case; cidb; coa; compliance; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction sites; contractors; control; cost; cost savings; cronbach; data; degree; design; direct; economics; elements; environment; fatalities; findings; h&s; h&s regulatory; health; high; implementation; index; industry; information; injuries; journal; level; management; mbawc; non; occupational; occupational health; occurrence; ohsa; ohsa regulatory; performance; probability; project; quantitative; regulations; regulatory; regulatory requirements; related; relationship; requirements; research; respondents; results; risk; safety; safety regulations; savings; scores; severe; severity; site; south; standards; study; survey; table; time; variables; windapo; work
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        item: #199 of 394
          id: ajceb-3278
      author: Ho, Paul H K
       title: Forecasting the manpower demand for quantity surveyors in Hong Kong
        date: 2013-09-18
       words: 6167
      flesch: 44
     summary: In theory, the supply of quantity surveyors is determined by (1) the number of students currently studying the surveying programme (i.e. potential members), (2) the number of probationers currently undertaking the professional training under the supervision of qualified quantity surveyors, (3) the number of existing qualified quantity surveyors (i.e. active members), and (4) the number of retired quantity surveyors (i.e. inactive members). Abstract Recently, there has been a massive infrastructure development and an increasing demand for public and private housing, resulting in a shortage of qualified quantity surveyors.
    keywords: apc; approach; arima; australasian; ball; building; civil; construction; construction economics; construction output; data; demand; economics; employment; engineering; equation; forecasted; forecasting; future; hkis; hong; hong kong; increase; journal; kong; labour; level; loge; maintenance; manpower; manpower demand; members; methods; model; number; order; output; probationers; professional; projects; qualified; qualified quantity; quantity; quantity surveyors; rate; regression; series; short; shortage; study; supply; surveying; surveyors; table; term; time; trend; univariate; values; variables; wage; work; years
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        item: #200 of 394
          id: ajceb-3280
      author: Barnes, Lisa Robyn; Croker, Norman
       title: The relevance of the ISO26000 social responsibility issues to the Hong Kong construction industry
        date: 2013-09-18
       words: 6910
      flesch: 38
     summary: HKCA 2012, Hong Kong Construction Association, viewed 23 November 2012 http://www.hkca.com.hk/ HKCIC 2012, Construction Industry Council Voluntary Registration Scheme, viewed 23 November 2012 http://www.hkcic.org/eng/main.aspx HKFEMCL 2012, The Hong Kong Federation of Electrical and Mechanical Contractors Limited, viewed 23 November 2012 http://www.hkfemc.org/ HKGDevB 2012, List of Approved Contractors, viewed 23 November 2012 http://www.devb.gov.hk/en/construction_sector_matters/contractors/index.html HKGov 2013, Facts about Hong Kong, viewed 13 January 2013 http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/facts.htm HKSARCSD 2013a, Key statistics on business performance and operating characteristics of the building, construction and real estate sectors in 2011 [29.11.2012], HKSAR, viewed 11 January 2013 http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/press_release/pressReleaseDetail.jsp?charsetID=1&pressRID=3 057 HKSARCSD 2013b, Report on the Quarterly Survey of Construction Output, Census and Statistics Department HKSAR, viewed 28 May 2013 HKTDC 2013, Economy Research, viewed 13 January 2013 http://hong-kong-economy- research.hktdc.com HKYP 2012, Yellow Pages List of Construction Contractors, viewed 23 November 2012 http://www.yp.com.hk/iypbusiness_e10/en/html/browsing_search/browsecat_result_douinfo. Therefore, the focus of this research is to fill the literature gap relating to CI practitioners’ perceptions of which CSR issues identified in ISO 26000 (2010), if any, are applicable to the HKCI.
    keywords: analysis; australasian; australasian journal; average; barnes; building; business; companies; company; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction works; constructs; contractors; core; corporate; corporate social; croker; csr; environment; firms; gross; hkca; hkci; hksarcsd; hkyp; hong; hong kong; indicators; iso; iso26000; iso26000 social; issues; journal; kong; kong construction; labour; large; lists; main; management; medium; november; number; overall; practices; principles; questionnaire; relevance; relevant; research; respondents; responses; responsibility; responsibility issues; review; rights; size; small; sme; social; social responsibility; strongest; sub; subjects; survey; table; total; value; variables; works
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        item: #201 of 394
          id: ajceb-3300
      author: Sunindijo, Riza Yosia; Zou, Patrick X. W.
       title: The roles of emotional intelligence, interpersonal skill, and transformational leadership on improving construction safety performance
        date: 2013-09-19
       words: 8573
      flesch: 34
     summary: ‘The roles of emotional intelligence, interpersonal skill, and transformational leadership on improving construction safety performance’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 13 (3) 97-113 110 superior performance in construction project safety. Much research has been conducted in construction safety management, such as safety risk management, safety management system framework and measurement, safety in design, building information modelling (BIM), and the return on investment of safety (Zou and Sunindijo 2013).
    keywords: 2000; 2001a; analysis; australasian; australasian journal; australia; awareness; building; climate; communication; construction; construction economics; construction project; construction safety; data; development; different; dimensions; economics; effective; emotional; emotional intelligence; emotions; factor; fit; goals; goleman; good; higher; human; hypothesis; implementation; individuals; industry; influence; intelligence; interactions; interpersonal; interpersonal skill; items; journal; leadership; management; management personnel; management tasks; managers; managing; model; new; organisations; people; performance; personnel; positive; project; project management; questionnaire; relationship; relationship management; research; results; robbins; roles; safety; safety climate; safety leadership; safety management; safety performance; section; self; sem; skill; social; standardised; studies; sunindijo; tasks; team; theoretical; transformational; transformational leadership; use; variables; work; zou
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        item: #202 of 394
          id: ajceb-3322
      author: Ding, Grace
       title: Demolish or refurbish – Environmental benefits of housing conservation
        date: 2013-06-18
       words: 8212
      flesch: 40
     summary: The extensive consumption of building materials to cope with the increasing housing demand has intensified with the high energy content embodied in the manufacturing processes of these materials. According to Yang and Kohler (2008) if embodied energy in building materials is taken into account, life cycle energy consumption of buildings in China can increase to over 45% of the national total energy consumption.
    keywords: air; analysis; apartment; australasian; australasian journal; benefits; block; building; china; climate; co2; comfort; conservation; conserved; construction; construction economics; consumption; cycle; data; demolish; demolition; development; dwellings; economics; elements; emissions; energy; environmental; environmental benefits; figure; floor; hangzhou; heating; historic; houses; housing; housing conservation; humidity; important; indoor; jie; journal; life; little; lower; materials; modern; monitors; months; new; occupants; official; old; outside; performance; period; project; range; readings; reconstructed; refurbish; relative; research; residential; results; roof; structure; study; sustainable; table; temperature; thermal; timber; total; traditional; upper; walls; winter; xiao; yang; zhi
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        item: #203 of 394
          id: ajceb-3325
      author: Harfield, Steve
       title: Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate
        date: 2013-06-20
       words: 1382
      flesch: 38
     summary: While it may comprise a selection of short chapters, or may be considered ‘thin’ by a variety of experts who might expect more, the book offers an important range of information concerning climate change and strategies for addressing such issues; does so in a way that may be brief but is well-written, highly-focussed Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Harfield, S (2013) As an academic and not an architectural practitioner, and as a theorist but with no connections to issues of climate change, energy efficiency, sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, ‘green buildings’, etc., this book offers an interesting and informative introduction to just such issues.
    keywords: book; building; change; chapters; climate; climate change; emissions; environment; expert; information; introduction; issues; reader; relation; roberts; strategies; understanding; useful
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        item: #204 of 394
          id: ajceb-3363
      author: Alqahtani, Ayedh; Whyte, Andrew
       title: Artificial neural networks incorporating cost significant Items towards enhancing estimation for (life-cycle) costing of construction projects
        date: 2013-09-18
       words: 6589
      flesch: 44
     summary: Kim, G.-H., An, S.-H. and Kang, K.-I. (2004) 'Comparison of construction cost estimating models based on regression analysis, neural networks, and case-based reasoning', Building and Environment, 39 (10), 1235-1242. Regression modelling is another method towards identification of construction cost impact factors, where regression equations estimate construction cost depending upon on cost-factor interrelationships.
    keywords: absolute; accuracy; actual; alqahtani; analysis; anns; artificial; artificial neural; australasian; australasian journal; best; building; case; construction; construction economics; construction projects; cost; cost estimation; costing; csis; cycle; data; design; difference; economics; error; estimate; estimation; factors; framework; hidden; items; journal; layers; lcc; life; management; methods; model; modelling; networks; neural; neural networks; new; nodes; non; number; output; process; projects; propagation; result; rms; running; set; significant; spread; stage; study; table; testing; total; training; value; variables; whyte
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        item: #205 of 394
          id: ajceb-3378
      author: Ssegawa, Joseph
       title: Developing a strategic perspective for construction industry of Botswana
        date: 2013-09-20
       words: 8114
      flesch: 45
     summary: As a result, reports have surfaced from various corners of the world (e.g. World Bank, 1984; and ILO, 1991) identifying challenges which are generic and specific to construction industries around the world. Some reports (e.g. Fox and Skitmore, 2007) have also Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Ssegawa, J (2013) ‘Developing a strategic perspective for construction industry of Botswana’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 13 (3) 157-172 158 strategized ways of overcoming constraints in order to enhance the long-term performance of the industry.
    keywords: analysis; australasian; australasian journal; botswana; building; business; challenges; cidb; components; conference; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction sector; corruption; customer; delivery; development; domain; dream; e.g.; economics; effective; environment; example; figure; focus; formulated; future; geographical; goal; government; group; growth; industry; infrastructure; journal; label; level; literature; long; management; mission; mission statement; national; number; order; outcome; participants; performance; perspective; phase; planning; process; processes; project; quality; question; reform; region; report; research; sector; services; session; social; ssegawa; stakeholders; statement; statistics; strategic; strategic perspective; study; table; term; value; vision; workshop
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        item: #206 of 394
          id: ajceb-3385
      author: Hubbard, Bryan; Huang, Qian; Caskey, Patrtick; Wang, Yang
       title: Safety awareness educational topics for the construction of power transmission systems with smart grid technologies
        date: 2013-09-19
       words: 6528
      flesch: 42
     summary: Interviews were conducted with a facilities manager/owner overseeing electrical improvements on high voltage building systems, a safety manager and electricians who work on electrical substations, and a constructor of high voltage power transmission systems. Current and future energy demand in the U.S. requires new distribution substations and new power lines to Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Hubbard, B et al (2013) ‘Safety awareness educational topics for the construction of power transmission systems with smart grid technologies’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 13 (3) 114-127 115 connect new power sources to the power grid system to serve the increasing demand.
    keywords: 2010; australasian; australasian journal; awareness; building; construction; construction economics; course; design; distribution; economics; educational; electrical; energized; energy; equipment; example; fatalities; figure; future; generation; grid; grid technologies; hazards; high; high voltage; hubbard; induction; industrial; industry; information; interest; interviews; journal; line; live; module; need; new; number; osha; power; power grid; power transmission; procedures; questions; response; results; safety; sector; smart; smart grid; sources; states; stringing; substations; survey; systems; technologies; technology; topics; training; transmission; transmission systems; united; voltage; voltage systems; workers; working
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        item: #207 of 394
          id: ajceb-3402
      author: Pekuri, Aki; Pekuri, Laura; Haapasalo, Harri
       title: The role of business models in Finnish construction companies
        date: 2013-09-18
       words: 6579
      flesch: 40
     summary: ‘The role of business models in Finnish construction companies’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 13 (3) 13-23 23 Kujala, S., Artto, K., Aaltonen, P., and Turkulainen, V. (2010) ‘Business models in project- based firms – towards a typology of a solution-specific business models’, International Journal of Project Management, 28 (2), 96-106. Linder, J., and Cantrell, S. (2000) ‘Changing business models: surveying the landscape’, working paper, The Accenture Institute for Strategic Change, 24 May, available at: http://course.shufe.edu.cn/jpkc/zhanlue/upfiles/edit/201002/20100224120954.pdf (accessed 23 April 2013). For this, eight experienced managers have been interviewed and their answers have been analysed using the theoretical aspects of business models as a reference.
    keywords: advantage; analysis; australasian; australasian journal; building; business; business models; certain; companies; company; competitive; concept; construction; construction companies; construction economics; cost; creation; current; customers; definitions; delivery; design; development; different; economics; elements; et al; example; field; finnish; finnish construction; firm; focus; industry; innovation; international; interviewees; journal; kinds; literature; logic; management; managers; markets; models; morris; osterwalder; pekuri; pigneur; porter; process; projects; research; resources; revenue; role; specific; strategy; systems; table; understanding; value; value creation; way
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        item: #208 of 394
          id: ajceb-3483
      author: Abbott, Malcolm; Carson, Chris
       title: A comparative approach to determining the growth of productivity of the New Zealand construction industry
        date: 2013-12-12
       words: 6596
      flesch: 42
     summary: Figure 1 Total factor productivity in New Zealand construction, 1972=100 Source: Orr 1989; Chapple 1994 Statistics New Zealand, 2006 Census New Zealand Australia Income $m NZ Expenditure $m NZ EBIT $m NZ Profit margin % Income $m Au Expenses $m Au EBIT $m Au Profit margin % 2002 16,570 15,232 1,952 11.8 123,328 112,596 11,232 9.1 2003 18,730 17,271 2,096 11.2 140,984 128,960 13,078 9.3 2004 20,872 19,383 2,333 11.2 159,928 145,434 15,935 10.0 2005 23,391 25,902 3,394 14.5 174,162 157,655 16,930 9.7 2006 32,734 29,517 4,275 13.1 198,802 179,329 19,485 9.8 2007 34,507 30,640 5,043 14.6 233,348 202,348 33,896 14.5 2008 38,104 34,749 3,893 10.2 253,820 234,279 28,227 11.1 2009 36,965 34,991 2,231 6.0 260,154 240,499 29,010 11.2 2010 33,451 31,263 1,972 5.9 275,290 254,002 31,308 11.4 Table 2 Returns to business in the New Zealand and Australian construction industry Source: Statistics New Zealand, Annual enterprise survey.
    keywords: abbott; analysis; approach; area; australasian; australasian journal; australia; building; bureau; capital; carson; case; cat; change; comparative; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction productivity; countries; dea; economics; efficiency; estimates; figures; floor; gap; growth; income; industry; industry productivity; investment; journal; jurisdictions; labour; levels; lower; mean; new zealand; number; output; paper; period; productivity; productivity growth; quality; residential; results; scale; sector; similar; states; statistics; statistics new; studies; table; technical; total; use; value; wellington; world; zealand construction; zealand industry
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        item: #209 of 394
          id: ajceb-3864
      author: Amuda Yusuf, Ganiyu; Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri
       title: Perceived benefits of adopting Standard – Based pricing mechanism for mechanical and electrical services installations
        date: 2014-06-03
       words: 8610
      flesch: 44
     summary: They suggested that if the method is adopted it would bridge the gap between quantity surveyors’ knowledge and M&E services technology, enable more detailed analysis of M&E service costs, facilitate the collection of more appropriate historic cost information and enable quantity surveyors to make better use of M&E services information. In a seminal work by Nanayakkahara & Fitzsimmons (1999), they developed cost benchmark for buildings services in United Kingdom and examined some of the methods used in forecasting contract price of M&E services and stated that the historical and statistical cost information generally used for M&E services cost estimate lacks quality and consistency as costs are normally averages for similar installations but derived from projects with different attributes; the cost information available from tenders is generally related to the type of product rather than its quality and effectiveness of the management process responsible for developing it; published cost information does not normally identify the costs of project organization and administration, the design process and project management and their impact on construction cost and therefore not suitable for predicting cost of M&E services.
    keywords: adoption; advice; amuda; analysis; assist; australasian; australasian journal; available; basis; benefits; boq; building; building services; cent; clients; components; construction; construction economics; consultants; contract; contractors; cost; data; design; documents; early; economics; electrical; electrical services; engineering; engineers; enhance; estimate; estimating; factor; forecast; forecasting; fortune; good; industry; information; installations; items; journal; loading; london; m&e; m&e services; management; measurement; mechanical; mechanism; method; mohamed; pasquire; practices; practitioners; price; pricing; pricing mechanism; process; project; quality; quantity; reliable; research; results; rics; risk; sbpm; services; services installations; smm; stage; standard; study; surveyors; swaffield; table; tender; use; value; variance; work; yusuf
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        item: #210 of 394
          id: ajceb-3869
      author: Ling, Florence Yean Yng; Hien, Mai Bich Tram
       title: Boosting project outcomes through goal alignment: a case study of Vietnam
        date: 2014-06-24
       words: 7696
      flesch: 45
     summary: This research focuses on construction projects undertaken in Vietnam. Four project outcomes (Y1 to Y4) and 15 goal alignment practices (X1 – X15) that may be adopted in construction projects were identified from the literature.
    keywords: alignment; alignment practices; australasian; australasian journal; benefits; better; building; buyers; case; cent; chan; client; communication; conflicts; construction; construction economics; construction project; contractors; correlation; cost; different; economics; engineering; extent; fairness; flexibility; goal; goal alignment; growth; hien; industry; information; interests; international; journal; ling; management; mean; members; objectives; outcomes; parties; partnering; performance; point; poor; practices; problems; project; project management; project outcomes; quality; questionnaire; research; respondents; results; satisfaction; scale; schedule; sellers; sharing; significant; study; success; table; team; test; time; tran; vietnam; x15
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        item: #211 of 394
          id: ajceb-3912
      author: Stringfellow, Peter
       title: Construction contractors involvement in disaster management planning
        date: 2014-06-18
       words: 5413
      flesch: 30
     summary: As well as, having a legislative framework to Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Stringfellow, P (2014) ‘Construction contractors involvement in disaster management planning’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 14 (2) 120-132 124 strengthen the obligations of contractors to be involved with planning (Jim O'Sullivan & The Consultancy Bureau Pty Ltd, 2009) there are a number of benefits to a construction contractor for involvement with disaster planning and management: it strengthens relationships with government and local organisations, reinforces brand reputation and company values and assists with staff development. The interviewee’s responses agree with current literature that there is currently little or no involvement with disaster planning however there is interest in being involved with disaster management if there was a forum for this to occur.
    keywords: affected; australasian; australia; bosher; building; chang; communities; company; construction; construction contractors; construction economics; construction industry; consultation; contractors; disaster; disaster management; disaster planning; disaster reconstruction; economics; equipment; figure; forum; framework; government; industry; institute; interviewee; involvement; journal; legislation; management; management planning; number; phase; planning; post; potangaroa; project; queensland; recovery; relief; research; resilience; resource; response; seville; stringfellow; study; wilkinson; world
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        item: #212 of 394
          id: ajceb-3925
      author: Sunding, Lars; Ekholm, Anders
       title: Problems and problem attention in the construction sector – understanding the influence of human factors
        date: 2014-06-18
       words: 9097
      flesch: 49
     summary: Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Sunding, L and Ekholm A (2014) ‘Problems and problem attention in the construction sector – understanding the influence of human factors’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 14 (2) 1-17 6 Figure 2 The question generator, relating situational problem components to causes for inadequate performance, including the four aspects (importance, occurrence, sector attention and individual attention). Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Sunding, L and Ekholm A (2014) ‘Problems and problem attention in the construction sector – understanding the influence of human factors’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 14 (2) 1-17 4 Figure 1 (b) expresses the relation between the task to solve, PT’, and the trouble or inconvenience, PT.
    keywords: action; analysis; answers; attention; australasian; australasian journal; building; case; causes; change; communication; component; conditions; construction; construction economics; construction sector; daily; design; different; direct; distortion; ekholm; factors; figure; formulation; group; high; human; importance; inadequate; individual; individual attention; influence; information; insufficient; journal; knowledge; lack; low; management; new; occurrence; order; people; performance; person; phenomena; practice; press; problem; problem attention; problem formulation; project; psychological; psychology; questionnaire; ranking; related; relevance; relevant; research; respondents; result; sector; sector attention; shows; situation; social; solving; specific; sunding; table; target; team; theory; unclear; understanding; view; way; working
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        item: #213 of 394
          id: ajceb-3938
      author: Olanipekun, Ayokunle Olubunmi; Abiola-Falemu, Joseph Ojo; Aje, Isaac Olaniyi
       title: Dimensions of Organisational Culture in Quantity Surveying Firms in Nigeria
        date: 2014-12-08
       words: 9302
      flesch: 36
     summary: http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v14i4.54 Dimensions of Organisational Culture in Quantity Surveying Firms in Nigeria Ayokunle Olubunmi Olanipekun, Joseph Ojo Abiola-Falemu & Isaac Olaniyi Aje Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria Abstract The functionalist paradigm of organisational culture (OC) views culture as a variable subject to conscious manipulation and control in order to solve organisational challenges. Keywords: Dimensions of Organisational culture, Quantity Surveying firms, functionalist paradigm, identity, management INTRODUCTION Quantity Surveying Firms (QSFs) are service based that manage finance related issues for clients in the construction industry (Abidin et al. 2011), using infrastructure cost and value management expertise (Olanipekun, Aje & Abiola-Falemu 2013).
    keywords: 2004; 2008; 2010; 2012; abiola; analysis; australasian; australasian journal; behaviour; building; business; case; challenges; clients; competitiveness; conference; construction; construction economics; cost; culture; data; dimensions; doi; economics; employee; engineering; environment; et al; existence; external; falemu; findings; firms; functionalist; gajendran; guevara; hierarchies; identity; implications; important; industry; information; innovation; international; job; journal; jqs; knowledge; lagos; level; literature; liu; management; mean; new; nigeria; ocp; olanipekun; organisational; organisational culture; pandey; paper; paradigm; people; perceptions; performance; practice; problems; profession; project; qsfs; qss; quality; quantity; quantity surveying; questionnaire; related; research; respondents; responsibility; review; reward; sarros; score; service; smith; social; sqs; structure; study; sub; supportiveness; surveying; surveyors; technology; test; time; university; values; work
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        item: #214 of 394
          id: ajceb-3957
      author: Siew, Renard Yung Jhien
       title: Human resource management in the construction industry – Sustainability competencies
        date: 2014-06-04
       words: 6161
      flesch: 35
     summary: Lately, the focus of organisations in integrating human resource management together with its business strategies has resulted in companies perceiving performance management as a form of systematic approach towards performance management (Loosemore et al., 2003). This competency refers to the knowledge and ability to conduct OHS audits or reviews including understanding of OHS management systems, strategies and standards, applicable regulations.
    keywords: able; activities; advises; analysis; appropriate; aspects; assessment; australasian; australasian journal; building; business; communication; competencies; competency; construction; construction economics; construction industry; development; economics; employees; environmental; framework; gap; gaps; goals; hazards; human; human resource; identification; impacts; industry; information; issues; journal; knowledge; levels; management; ohs; organisation; p4 p4; performance; plan; process; processes; proficiency; project; rating; recruitment; regulatory; reporting; requirements; resource; resource management; reviews; reward; risk; safety; siew; site; smt; strategies; subcontractors; sustainability; sustainability competencies; system; team; training; understanding; worker
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        item: #215 of 394
          id: ajceb-3965
      author: Vines, Prue
       title: Construction Claims
        date: 2014-06-18
       words: 1261
      flesch: 54
     summary: It is clear and easy to read and extremely well-informed not only about the framework of law which covers the issues raised by construction claims, but also about the issues which are most likely to be difficult. These chapters cover the limits on defective work claims, licensing, a large number of defences, claims after termination and the penalty doctrine.
    keywords: authors; book; building; chapter; claims; construction; contract; contractors; damages; interest; law; loss; meruit; owner; payment; prevention; restitution; work
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        item: #216 of 394
          id: ajceb-4102
      author: Olatunji, Oluwole Alfred; Sher, Willy
       title: Perspectives on Modelling BIM-enabled Estimating Practices
        date: 2014-12-08
       words: 10677
      flesch: 37
     summary: Based on construction cost data, estimators still need to make decisions on taxation, depreciation of construction (and constructed) facilities, monitoring the cost implications of project performance and updating model data (as lifecycle phenomena) for maintenance works. Amor and Faraj (2001) and Amor, Jiang and Chen (2007) argue that it is technically impossible for BIM data to be structured to simultaneously satisfy the requirements of these disciplines.
    keywords: 2011; able; activities; addition; amor; analyses; applications; approaches; australasian; australia; best; bim; bim data; bim estimating; building; cad; challenges; clients; components; computer; conference; construction; construction economics; construction estimating; construction project; contractors; conventional; cost; costing; data; design; different; doi; domains; economics; elements; engineering; estimate; estimating; estimating processes; estimators; et al; example; facilities; figure; focus; following; hyper; ifc; important; information; integrated; integration; international; journal; management; measurement; methods; model data; modelling; models; need; new; notes; olatunji; organizations; outcomes; paper; parametric; participants; perspectives; practices; processes; professionals; project; quantification; quantities; quantity; reality; requirements; research; sher; simulation; skills; skitmore; software; solutions; specialist; specific; stage; studies; study; support; technology; tender; tendering; time; tools; traditional; university; use; value; virtual; ways; work
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        item: #217 of 394
          id: ajceb-4146
      author: Johnston, Michael; Guaralda, Mirko; Sawang, Sukanlaya
       title: Sustainable Innovation for Queensland's Housing Design: a Case Study
        date: 2014-12-08
       words: 9104
      flesch: 52
     summary: This will consist of the major components of house construction. The brief is provided courtesy of the architect who took on the client and designed the house, known as 'architect house' in this study.
    keywords: 2005; 2008; analysis; architect; architect house; architecture; area; australasian; australia; available; average; bedrooms; better; brick; brisbane; building; carbon; case; changes; cladding; client; co2e; common; concrete; construction; construction economics; cost; design; designers; developer; developer house; development; different; doi; double; east; economics; energy; environmental; example; exemplar; figure; floor; future; garage; glass; heat; height; higher; home; house; housing; implications; innovation; journal; kibert; large; layout; light; living; location; materials; methods; need; new; north; open; orientation; outdoor; performance; plan; prefabricated; prefabricated house; process; project; queensland; real; research; results; reuse; roof; similar; site; size; software; solar; specific; structural; study; style; suburban; suburbs; sun; sustainability; sustainable; techniques; technology; thermal; timber; urban; ventilation; walls; west; windows
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        item: #218 of 394
          id: ajceb-4151
      author: Lind, Hans; Brunes, Fredrik
       title: Policies to Avoid Cost Overruns in Infrastructure Projects: Critical Evaluation and Recommendations
        date: 2014-09-13
       words: 6127
      flesch: 53
     summary: Abstract Many infrastructure projects have cost overruns and there has been a lot of research both on why these cost overruns occur and what can be done to reduce hem. Besides a literature review, a questionnaire was sent out to experienced Swedish project managers to find out what they thought could reduce cost overruns.
    keywords: analysis; answers; australasian; australasian journal; brunes; building; class; client; competence; construction; construction economics; contractor; cost; cost overruns; critical; design; different; economics; evaluations; external; factors; flyvbjerg; forecasting; important; infrastructure; infrastructure projects; journal; large; lind; literature; management; managers; measures; number; organizational; overruns; policies; policy; possible; projects; proposals; public; quality; questionnaire; recommendations; reference; respondents; review; risk; sector; staff; studies; table; transport; use
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        item: #219 of 394
          id: ajceb-4152
      author: Kamardeen, Imriyas
       title: Stimulating Learning with Integrated Assessments in Construction Education
        date: 2014-09-13
       words: 6631
      flesch: 44
     summary: Keppell and Carless (2006) conceptualised three components for a learning-oriented assessment design:  Constructive alignment – learning outcomes, objectives, contents, assessment items and instructional design should be aligned; assessment tasks should be designed such that time and efforts of students are spread evenly across the module study period rather than concentrating all at the end; establish connections between assessment tasks and real-life scenarios; and allow some degree of student choice to stimulate their motivation and engagement;  Student involvement – tasks should encourage reflection, cooperation rather than competition, peer feedback, and self-evaluation. Considerations should also be given to aspects such as: resources - staff, budget and space requirements; ethics in circumstances where research dominates assessment tasks; and other logistical limitations.
    keywords: 2000; 2002; 2014; analysis; approach; assessment; assessment scheme; assessment tasks; australasian; australasian journal; better; brown; building; case; cash; class; construction; construction economics; construction education; course; design; different; discipline; economics; education; effective; feedback; formative; grading; higher; instructional; integrated; journal; kamardeen; key; learning; lecturers; literature; oct; online; opportunities; order; outcomes; project; quality; questions; quizzes; real; research; scheme; skills; stimulating; students; study; summative; table; tasks; teaching; test; thinking; time; university; variety; work; year
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        item: #220 of 394
          id: ajceb-4154
      author: Hosseini, M. Reza; Chileshe, Nicholas; Zillante, George
       title: Investigating the Factors Associated with Job Satisfaction of Construction Workers in South Australia
        date: 2014-09-13
       words: 9241
      flesch: 39
     summary: Likewise, job satisfaction effects for workers in their initial stages of service in the construction industry was the same for workers in the later stages in the industry (Lambda (16, 124) = .819, p =.668).This finding is in contrast to many studies advocating the effects of length of service stage on all major job attitudes including job satisfaction. Secondly, it investigates the influence of key age- related factors i.e. chronological age, organisational age and length of service on major aspects of job satisfaction.
    keywords: 2008; 2012; 2014; age; analysis; aspects; attributes; australasian; australasian journal; australia; australian construction; building; chileshe; chronological; chronological age; construction; construction context; construction economics; construction industry; construction workers; context; data; different; effects; employees; engineering; et al; factors; findings; francis; grube; haupt; health; hertel; hosseini; hours; human; individual; industry; influence; items; job satisfaction; jobs; journal; kooij; krumm; lack; lambda; length; level; life; lingard; main; major; management; mean; nature; older; older workers; organisational; organisational age; personal; poor; problems; project; psychology; quality; regards; related; relationship; research; results; review; satisfaction effects; scores; service; social; south; south australia; stage; studies; study; table; variables; workers; working; years; zillante
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        item: #221 of 394
          id: ajceb-4155
      author: Fageha, Mohammed K; Aibinu, Ajibade A
       title: Prioritising Project Scope Definition Elements in Public Building Projects
        date: 2014-09-13
       words: 8478
      flesch: 45
     summary: This research identifies and prioritises project scope definition elements for public buildings in Saudi Arabia. The outcome from this research is the prioritisation of project scope definition elements for public building projects in Saudi Arabia.
    keywords: a.a; aibinu; analysis; anp; approach; arabia; architectural; australasian; australasian journal; building; building projects; business; categories; category; changes; comparisons; completeness; construction; construction economics; construction projects; control; cost; data; decision; definition; definition completeness; definition elements; design; developed; economics; elements; engineering; execution; fageha; gibson; importance; industry; information; interrelationships; journal; list; m.k; making; management; model; network; order; pair; pareto; participants; pdri; performance; philosophy; planning; planning stage; poor; pre; prioritising; process; procurement; project; project definition; project management; project planning; project scope; public; public building; quality; requirements; research; saaty; saudi; scope; scope definition; site; stage; step; study; table; technique; tool; weights; wise
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        item: #222 of 394
          id: ajceb-4156
      author: Mat Isa, Che Maznah; Mohd Saman, Hamidah; Preece, Christopher Nigel
       title: Entry Location and Entry Timing (ELET) Decision Model for International Construction Firms
        date: 2014-09-13
       words: 13018
      flesch: 36
     summary: Results for ET decision in Table 5 show that the components extracted from factor analysis indicate high reliability of internal consistency where the value for each component exceeds 0.70; Firm factors (α= 0.873); Project factors (α= 0.823); Performance (α= 0.905); Management factors (α= 0.890) and Market factors (α= 0.862). Hence, the logistic regression model fitted well with the predictor variables (ET decision) under components namely; firm, project, performance, management and market factors.
    keywords: 2011; 2013; 2014; analysis; asean; australasian; australasian journal; availability; building; business; c.m; c.n; capabilities; capacity; collinearity; competencies; competition; component; construction; construction economics; construction firms; countries; country; country factors; data; decision; decision factors; decision model; development; early; elet; entry; entry decisions; entry location; entry timing; et al; et decision; experience; expertise; explained; factors; financial; financing; firm factors; firms; foreign; foreign market; government; high; home; host; independent; influence; internal; international; international business; international construction; international experience; international market; isa; journal; knowledge; kurtosis; late; level; loadings; location; logistic; malaysian; malaysian construction; management; market; market entry; market factors; marketing; mat; method; model; mohd; mover; non; opportunities; order; performance; preece; project; project factors; regression; related; research; resource; results; review; saman; significant; similar; size; skewness; specialist; step; strategies; strong; studies; study; table; technology; test; timing; total; values; variables; variance
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        item: #223 of 394
          id: ajceb-4157
      author: Ibiyemi, Abayomi; Mohd Adnan, Yasmin; Daud, Md Nasir; Adenipekun, Martins
       title: An Examination of the Structure of Sustainable Facilities Planning Scale for User Satisfaction in Nigerian Universities
        date: 2014-09-13
       words: 8715
      flesch: 43
     summary: Resultantly, several calls have been made to give more attention to the management of university facilities for improved qualitative outputs and user satisfaction. The management of university facilities transcends the problem of personnel, janitorial, transportation, or mere sanitation issues, but includes maximisation of efficiency in time savings, space, capital budgeting, staff welfare, teamwork and improvement in general productivity (Shayler 2010).
    keywords: 2011; adenipekun; adequacy; adnan; analysis; australasian; australasian journal; building; business; campus; coefficients; component; condition; connection; construction; construction economics; corporate; correlation; data; daud; design; development; duf; dummy; economics; education; efa; efc; eigenvalues; estate; examination; facilities; facilities management; facilities planning; facility; factor; fair; fcf; fdr; functional; ibiyemi; impact; information; items; journal; kaiser; laf; loadings; maf; maintenance; management; matrix; mean; needs; nigerian; nigerian universities; number; organization; pallant; pattern; performance; planning; planning scale; poor; questionnaires; rcf; real; research; respondents; response; rotation; rtdf; satisfaction; scale; scores; services; sfp; solution; space; staff; strategic; structure; students; study; sustainable; sustainable facilities; table; time; total; ufp; universities; university; user; user satisfaction; value; variables; variance; work
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        item: #224 of 394
          id: ajceb-4158
      author: Chan, Philip
       title: A book review of “Best Practice in Construction Disputes – Avoidance, Management and Resolution”
        date: 2014-09-15
       words: 1549
      flesch: 41
     summary: First, there is a call for widespread and comprehensive education and training to overcome low levels of understanding of the many techniques available for the avoidance, management and Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building Chan, P. 2014, ‘A book review of “Best Practice in Construction Disputes – Avoidance, Management and Resolution” ’, Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building, 14 (3), 99-101. 101 resolution of construction disputes within both the construction industry and legal profession (page 471, 19.24). In conclusion and in summary, the authors have sought to ensure that readers fully appreciate the differences between the words, ‘conflict’, ‘dispute’ and ‘claim’ as well as the causes of the first two, as the basis to launch their agenda of bringing about reform through their supply of plentiful data in support of what they sincerely believed is the best practice in construction industries globally, in regard to avoidance, management and resolution of construction disputes.
    keywords: author; avoidance; best; book; building; causes; chapter; conflicts; construction; contract; disputes; economics; journal; management; page; paragraph; practice; project; resolution; reviewer; section
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        item: #225 of 394
          id: ajceb-4168
      author: Fernández-López, Xosé Luís; Coto-Millán, Pablo
       title: From the Boom to the Collapse: a Technical Efficiency Analysis of the Spanish Construction Industry during the Financial Crisis
        date: 2015-03-13
       words: 7186
      flesch: 50
     summary: A growing number of bankruptcies among Spanish construction firms, including some major construction firms such as Astroc Mediterraneo, Martinsa-Fadesa, Habitat, and most recently Reyal Urbis, hit the sector hard. Regarding the factors which affect efficiency determinants, Chau and Wang (2003) used the DEA method to evaluate the efficiency of construction firms in Hong Kong.
    keywords: analysis; approach; battese; bc95; bhb; boom; bubble; building; business; coelli; companies; company; constant; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction sector; coto; crisis; data; dea; debt; diversification; doi; economics; effects; efficiency; error; estate; estimates; estimation; expansive; factors; fernández; financial; firms; frontier; function; growth; high; housing; important; industry; journal; level; literature; lópez; management; markets; mean; measurement; method; millán; model; negative; panel; parameters; performance; period; policy; positive; production; productivity; random; ratio; real; research; results; scale; schmidt; sector; sector efficiency; significant; spain; spanish; spanish construction; step; stochastic; study; supply; table; technical; technical efficiency; term; time; translog; uit; value; variables; year
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        item: #226 of 394
          id: ajceb-4170
      author: Owusu-Manu, De-Graft; Badu, Edward; Holt, Gary D.; Edwards, David
       title: Determinants of Management Innovation in the Ghanaian Construction Consulting Sector
        date: 2015-03-13
       words: 6841
      flesch: 44
     summary: ePress Determinants of Management Innovation in the Ghanaian Construction Consulting Sector De-Graft Owusu-Manu1, Edward Badu1, Gary D. Holt2 and David Edwards3 1Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana 2University of Central Lancashire, UK 3Birmingham City University, UK Abstract Determinants of management innovation (MI) within the Ghanaian construction consulting sector are examined. In contrast, management innovation (MI) relates indirectly to work activities, resulting in change to organizational policies, responsibilities, processes, or routines.
    keywords: accountability; analysis; badu; birkinshaw; building; business; cent; changes; clients; communication; community; competitive; component; construction; consultancy; consulting; corporate; cost; creativity; damanpour; data; delivery; demands; determinants; development; doi; economics; edwards; efficiency; employees; factor; field; financial; firms; ghanaian; good; hamel; holt; human; implementation; importance; increase; individuals; industry; information; innovation; january; journal; knowledge; management; management innovation; manu; market; matrix; need; new; organizational; owusu; performance; practices; pressure; principal; process; professional; quality; research; resource; responsibility; sample; sector; services; size; social; structure; study; systems; table; technological; technology; terms; test; total; type; university; value; variables; variance; vol; way
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        item: #227 of 394
          id: ajceb-4172
      author: Forsythe, Perry
       title: Monitoring Customer Perceived Service Quality and Satisfaction during the Construction Process
        date: 2015-03-11
       words: 10225
      flesch: 44
     summary: Following this, there is the prospect of adapting the associated concepts and methods of incident analysis to profile other types of construction customers as well. ePress Monitoring Customer Perceived Service Quality and Satisfaction during the Construction Process Perry Forsythe School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Abstract Service quality has been studied across many construction related disciplines but little has been done concerning how it effects customer satisfaction during the day-to-day dynamics of onsite construction services.
    keywords: active; analysis; apparent; approach; associated; australian; behaviour; berry; bias; builder; building; buildserv; business; care; case; conceptual; construction; construction economics; consumer; context; contractor; customer; customer satisfaction; data; debate; delivery; design; dimensions; direction; doi; economics; end; engineering; execution; expectations; experience; exposure; features; figure; floor; forsythe; gap; housing; housing construction; incidents; individual; instance; instrument; interview; involved; involvement; journal; level; management; marketing; measurement; model; movements; needs; negative; negative incidents; new; observations; oliver; parasuraman; perceptions; performance; period; personal; point; positive; process; product; progressive; project; quality; quality dimensions; quality gap; related; reliability; research; retailing; satisfaction; satisfaction gap; scale; scores; service; service incidents; service quality; servqual; site; situations; specific; spontaneous; stage; study; survey; terms; theory; work; zeithaml
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        item: #228 of 394
          id: ajceb-4186
      author: Walker, Derek Henry Thomas; Harley, James; Mills, Anthony
       title: Performance of Project Alliancing in Australasia: a Digest of Infrastructure Development from 2008 to 2013
        date: 2015-03-11
       words: 8402
      flesch: 46
     summary: Recent government policy changes in Australia at Federal and State level have led to a decline in the number of project alliances, however, while the volume of alliance activity is declining it still represents billions of dollars of infrastructure construction work being undertaken. According to Wood and Duffield (2009, p.7) “The total value of alliance projects in the road, rail and water sectors in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, over the period 2004 to 2009 was $32 billion”.
    keywords: 3bl; actual; agreement; alliance; alliancing; alt; amt; aoc; approach; australia; best; bidding; building; business; cases; client; collaboration; complex; construction; construction economics; contract; contracting; cost; culture; data; decision; delivery; department; design; development; doi; economics; engineering; extent; figure; final; flyvbjerg; general; harley; high; industry; infrastructure; initial; innovation; international; involvement; issues; journal; key; knowledge; kpis; kras; leadership; level; lloyd; london; making; management; members; mills; new; nops; outcomes; owner; paa; participants; parties; performance; period; por; ppp; private; process; procurement; program; project; project alliance; project delivery; project management; public; pvs; questions; reasons; research; respondents; responses; results; risk; ross; scope; social; statement; studies; study; survey; team; time; toc; university; use; value; vfm; victoria; walker; work; workplace
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        item: #229 of 394
          id: ajceb-4195
      author: Forsythe, Perry; Ding, Grace
       title: Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Excavation on Residential Construction Sites
        date: 2014-12-08
       words: 5161
      flesch: 45
     summary: However as shown in the table, GHG emissions per square metre of GFA is lower than GHG emission per square metre of BF, in all cases. LCA can yield vital information on a variety of outputs but of particular interest in this study is GHG emissions and how related information can best be used as part of an integrated design process (Kohler & Moffatt 2003).
    keywords: activities; analysis; area; assessment; associated; australasian; building; concrete; construction; cumulative; cut; cycle; data; doi; drainage; dwelling; economics; emissions; energy; environment; excavation; fill; floor; footprint; framework; gas; gases; gfa; ghg; ghg emissions; global; greenhouse; ground; impact; journal; kgco2; lca; life; materials; methods; metre; process; processes; projects; related; relative; research; residential; results; rock; sites; slope; sloping; soil; square; structure; study; table; terms; types; wall
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        item: #230 of 394
          id: ajceb-4196
      author: Borg, Lena; Lind, Hans
       title: Framework for Structuring Procurement Contracts
        date: 2014-12-08
       words: 7190
      flesch: 52
     summary: The Proposed Basic Framework: Procurement Contract Type We believe that similarities and differences between procurement contract types become clearer if a stepwise procedure is used; that is, a structure in which one dimension is introduced at a time. The aim of this paper is to propose a new framework for structuring contract types and payment methods.
    keywords: 2010; 2013; 2014; alternatives; australasian; basic; bonuses; borg; build; clear; client; construction; construction management; contract; contractors; cost; dbb; design; detailed; different; economics; fee; figure; fixed; framework; general; gould; integrated; journal; joyce; levy; lind; literature; maintenance; management; manager; methods; model; new; number; operation; option; payment; ppp; price; procurement; project; proposed; responsibility; responsible; risk; ritz; second; sharing; specific; step; structure; subcontractors; sweden; table; type; unit; winch
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        item: #231 of 394
          id: ajceb-4214
      author: Ramachandra, Thanuja; Rotimi, James Olabode Bamidele
       title: Causes of Payment Problems in the New Zealand Construction Industry
        date: 2015-03-11
       words: 6928
      flesch: 48
     summary: Payment culture: Chain payment, work first get paid later .73 5 Cash flow difficulties due to delays and non-payments on other projects .54 6 Others (2.67% of variance) Improper supervision and financial control .538 Conclusions Unlike previous studies that focused on the generic factors causing payment delays on construction projects, this study focused on the underlying factors causing payment problems, with the aim of devising ways of mitigating payment problems. Accordingly, the study found that payment problems mainly relate to contractual issues, financial strength of industry players, disputes, short-comings of payment processes and ‘domino effects’.
    keywords: analysis; attitude; building; capital; cash; causes; chain; claims; construction; construction economics; construction industry; consultants; contractors; contractual; creditors; culture; default; delays; difficulties; disputes; doi; easy; economics; experience; factor; failure; financial; flow; groups; head; independent; industry; issues; kumaraswamy; lack; late; little; management; mean; methods; new; new zealand; non; number; owners; participants; parties; payment; payment problems; players; problems; procurement; projects; provisions; rahman; ramachandra; research; responses; results; rotimi; s.d; security; significant; soo; study; subcontractor; survey; table; test; time; work; zealand; zealand construction
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        item: #232 of 394
          id: ajceb-4244
      author: Gharaie, Ehsan; Lingard, Helen; Cooke, Tracy
       title: Causes of Fatal Accidents Involving Cranes in the Australian Construction Industry
        date: 2015-05-30
       words: 6156
      flesch: 51
     summary: Literature Review Immediate Causes Previous research on the causation of crane accidents has looked into the immediate causes of the accidents and more specifically on the impact of the areas around the crane, and the type of the crane involved in the accident. These studies confirmed an earlier work by Shepherd, Kahler and Cross (2000) that developed a detailed taxonomy based upon Haddon’s “damaging energies” theory to analyse the aetiology of crane accidents.
    keywords: accidents; analysis; associated; australian; beavers; boom; building; cases; causal; causation; circumstances; concrete; construction; construction accidents; construction economics; construction industry; contact; cooke; coroners; crane; crane accidents; decedent; design; doi; economics; electrocution; engineering; factors; fatal; fatalities; figure; findings; gharaie; immediate; industry; influences; layout; lingard; load; loughborough; management; method; model; originating; paper; pathways; power; project; relevant; research; risk; safety; shaping; shapira; site; system; types; upstream; use; wall; work; workers
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          id: ajceb-4252
      author: Runeson, Göran
       title: Doing Events Research: From Theory to Practice
        date: 2014-12-08
       words: 550
      flesch: 54
     summary: A title like “Doing events research: from theory to practice” may seem a peculiar choice for a review for a journal of Construction Management. In summary, I think this is a very useful introduction to anyone starting as a researcher and I wish it had been around when I was teaching research methods.
    keywords: book; construction; economics; events; journal; methods; research; review; runeson; theory; topic
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        item: #234 of 394
          id: ajceb-4275
      author: Runeson, Göran
       title: Farewell from the Editor: Some Reflections about the Past, the Present and the Future
        date: 2014-12-08
       words: 2007
      flesch: 55
     summary: Over the five years of my involvement with the journal, there have been significant changes in the environment of research publications in general and AJCEB has been part of this change. Rather it has been in response to the implications of the push by universities to increase the number of research publications without doing anything to facilitate this obsession with numbers.
    keywords: 2014; australasian; building; construction; doi; economics; editor; future; journal; management; new; number; particular; past; present; publications; quality; reflections; research; science; social; statistical; studies; things; time; work; years
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        item: #235 of 394
          id: ajceb-4281
      author: Babaeian Jelodar, Mostafa; Wing Yiu, Tak; Wilkinson, Suzanne
       title: Systematic Representation of Relationship Quality in Conflict and Dispute: for Construction Projects
        date: 2015-03-13
       words: 7393
      flesch: 40
     summary: Relationship quality is defined by Hennig- Thurau and Klee (1997) as the “degree of appropriateness of a relationship to fulfil the end needs of a customer”, but attributes have also been identified and Crosby, Evans and Cowles (1990) stated there is a consensus that relationship quality is a high-order construct of attributes such as trust, satisfaction and commitment. The failure of relationship quality system is defined as the failure of system components situated in the assigned layers of the system in balancing each other out, in favour of a retained beneficial relationship to all sides.
    keywords: addition; analysis; antecedent; associated; attributes; basic; behaviour; building; business; case; causes; chan; change; collaboration; commitment; communication; components; conditions; conflict; construction; construction economics; construction projects; contract; contracting; contractual; design; deterioration; different; dispute; doi; dynamic; economics; engineering; events; failure; fault; figure; framework; fta; general; industry; influence; instance; international; jelodar; journal; layer; ling; management; meng; model; moderation; new; parties; partnering; performance; possible; potential; process; procurement; project; quality; related; relational; relationship; relationship quality; reliability; research; resolution; set; state; strategies; studies; supply; system; systematic; time; tree; triggering; trust; type; wilkinson; working; yeung; yiu
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        item: #236 of 394
          id: ajceb-4282
      author: Rotimi, James Olabode Bamidele; Ramanayaka, Chamila
       title: Analysis of the Influence of a Strategy-led Planning Approach on Successful Construction Project Implementation
        date: 2015-05-30
       words: 10085
      flesch: 40
     summary: There is a significant linear relationship between the influence of strategies for project implementation and the four project characteristics: complexity, dynamism, uncertainty and uniqueness (r ≠ 0) To simulate the impact of construction project strategies on construction project planning and implementation, the authors used the influence of strategies towards the 35 critical success Construction Economics and Building, 15(2), 13-30 Rotimi and Ramanayaka 25 factors, which were summarised in Table 2. Thus a combination of construction project strategies crafted from experiential knowledge (reflective practice methodologies) and traditional planning algorithms are needed for successful construction project planning and implementation.
    keywords: adequacy; algorithms; analysis; approach; award; awardees; building; characteristics; client; complexity; conceptual; constraints; construction; construction economics; construction management; construction project; context; correlation; cpm; critical; critical success; data; design; doi; dynamism; economics; engineering; experience; factors; findings; flow; focus; handling; highest; implementation; industry; influence; information; interviews; issues; journal; knowledge; level; literature; low; management; managers; material; mean; median; methodologies; methodology; new; nziob; participants; pert; planning; planning algorithms; population; practice; project; project characteristics; project implementation; project planning; project strategies; project success; questionnaire; ramanayaka; reflective; related; reliability; research; resource; rotimi; schedules; scheduling; significant; site; sme1; sme3; solutions; stage; statements; statistics; strategies; strategy; study; sub; success; success factors; successful; survey; table; technology; test; themes; time; total; traditional; traditional planning; uncertainty; uniqueness; use; values; variations; years
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        item: #237 of 394
          id: ajceb-4304
      author: Chiu, Wai Yee Betty; Ng, Fung FaI
       title: The Mediation Influence of Job Satisfaction on Organisational Commitment amongst Quantity Surveyors
        date: 2015-03-13
       words: 7672
      flesch: 44
     summary: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether job satisfaction has a mediation effect on the relationship between work group identification and the two forms of organisational commitment. Social exchange theory was used to explain the mediating role of job satisfaction on the relationship between work group identification and organisational commitment.
    keywords: affective; affective commitment; analysis; antecedents; approach; behavior; building; causal; chiu; commitment; construction; data; direct; doi; economics; effect; ejs; employee; exchange; findings; forms; group; group identification; hayes; hong; hypothesis; identification; independent; industry; influence; international; job; job satisfaction; journal; kenny; kong; level; malik; management; measurement; mediation; mediation effect; mediator; methods; model; normative; normative commitment; organisational; organisational commitment; organization; path; positive; preacher; psychology; quantity; quantity surveyors; relationship; reliability; research; results; review; role; satisfaction; scales; significant; social; studies; study; surveying; surveyors; test; theory; variable; wgi; work; work group; working
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        item: #238 of 394
          id: ajceb-4348
      author: Sun, Yuting; Goh, Bee Hua
       title: Contribution Index Based on Green Building Certification Systems
        date: 2015-05-30
       words: 7611
      flesch: 49
     summary: (1) Where: FCIk - Frequency Contribution Index of company k Wi - weight of green building certification level i Construction Economics and Building, 15(2), 31-48 Yuting Sun and Bee Hua Goh 36 Nik - number of buildings, under company k, with green building certification at level i Ni - number of buildings, under all the companies, with green building certification at level i i - green building certification level n - total number of green building certification levels in a certain GBCS Intensity Contribution Index (ICI) defines how much the participant contributes in this sustainable development effort. Taking a leading role in green building in Asia where urbanization is developing rapidly (Ives, 2013), Singapore is trying to keep a balance between economic growth and environmental sustainability (Chew, 2010).
    keywords: analysis; architectural; assessment; authority; available; awards; bca; bee; building; building certification; building industry; cci; certain; certification; clients; companies; company; composite; comprehensive; construction; consultant; consultant companies; contractors; contribution; contribution index; council; country; cumulative; december; design; development; different; doi; economics; efforts; energy; environment; fci; figure; gbcs; gfa; goh; green; green building; green mark; higher; hua; ici; index; indicators; industry; level; m&e; main; mark; new; number; participants; performance; private; projects; public; quality; quantity; rank; residential; singapore; space; study; sun; sustainability; sustainable; systems; table; total; types; weights
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        item: #239 of 394
          id: ajceb-4355
      author: Tiwari, Piyush Kumar
       title: International Approaches to Real Estate Development
        date: 2015-03-13
       words: 1107
      flesch: 39
     summary: Following Keogh and D’Arcy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v15i1.4355 mailto:piyush.tiwari@unimelb.edu.au Construction Economics and Building, 15 (1), 118-119 Tiwari 119 (1999)1 and recognizing the limitation of the neo classical approach, real estate researchers have increasingly applied an institutional approach to explain real estate markets. In summary, this book provides a wide spectrum of real estate development approaches in a range of markets, which can be viewed through an institutional lens to understand the linkages in “environments, markets, agencies, processes and outcomes”.
    keywords: approach; authors; book; building; construction; developers; development; economics; estate; global; institutional; international; land; markets; planning; practices; real; real estate; sector; tiwari
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        item: #240 of 394
          id: ajceb-4386
      author: Chancellor, Will; Abbott, Malcolm; Carson, Chris
       title: Factors Promoting Innovation and Efficiency in the Construction Industry: A Comparative Study of New Zealand and Australia
        date: 2015-05-30
       words: 9201
      flesch: 47
     summary: It was expected that the decline in New Zealand construction productivity from 2004 to 2010 had distorted regression analysis results. New Zealand 1991 - 2010 Regression results using New Zealand construction productivity from 1991 to 2010 revealed a number of significant and negative independent variables for New Zealand construction (Table 2).
    keywords: abbott; accounts; analysis; apprentices; approach; australian; australian bureau; australian construction; building; bureau; canberra; capital; carson; case; chancellor; change; companies; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction productivity; data; davis; dea; decline; degree; development; doi; drivers; economics; education; efficiency; engineering; estimates; figure; firms; frontier; function; färe; grosskopf; growth; improvements; independent; index; industry; industry productivity; innovation; input; introduction; journal; labour; levels; management; measures; method; national; new; new zealand; number; output; paper; performance; period; population; price; primont; productivity; productivity change; productivity growth; regression; research; results; scale; shephard; states; statistics; statistics new; studies; study; table; technical; time; undertaken; use; variables; wang; wellington; work; zealand construction; zealand productivity
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        item: #241 of 394
          id: ajceb-4398
      author: Sher, Willy; Williams, Anthony; Northcote, Maria
       title: The Lived Experience of Online Educators: Insights from Construction Management
        date: 2015-05-30
       words: 7772
      flesch: 44
     summary: Consequently, lecturers and university administrators who make decisions about what courses to offer distance, on-campus and online students need to recognise that student cohorts are less homogenous than previously. Students enrolling in flexibly delivered online CM courses are often more IT savvy than their lecturers, being referred to by Prensky (2001) as digital natives who are adept at speaking the language of the internet.
    keywords: academics; activities; approaches; australia; available; building; campus; challenges; cm academics; cohorts; construction; construction economics; construction management; context; courses; current; curriculum; degree; delivery; demands; department; design; development; digital; disciplines; distance; diverse; doi; economics; education; expectations; experience; face; faculty; findings; global; group; growth; herrington; higher; industry; institutions; international; issues; journal; lack; learning; management; materials; need; new; northcote; online; online courses; online delivery; online education; online learning; online teaching; opportunities; paper; participants; practice; presence; pressures; professional; programs; range; requirements; research; school; seaman; sher; skills; staff; students; study; survey; teacher; teaching; technology; time; universities; university; use; williams; work; workload; years
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        item: #242 of 394
          id: ajceb-4408
      author: Strahorn, Scott; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Brewer, Graham
       title: The Influence of Trust in Traditional Contracting: Investigating the "Lived Experience" of Stakeholders
        date: 2015-05-30
       words: 12074
      flesch: 38
     summary: This indicated the importance of a) initiating actions to develop stakeholder trust during project initiation, and b) adopting a focused approach to trading partner selection on the basis of trust compatibility and consequent value delivery, rather than cost alone. This silence may indicate that an increased level of trust within stakeholder relationships could be beneficial in terms of managing project risk.
    keywords: academy; actions; analysis; approach; appropriate; attribution; behaviour; benefits; benevolence; brewer; building; characteristics; client; collaborative; communication; construction; consultant; context; contracting; contractor; contracts manager; contractual; control; cooperative; culture; design; development; doi; economics; educational; engineer; english; environment; events; experiences; framework; future; gajendren; good; greater; hartman; honesty; human; important; individual; influence; informal; initial; integrity; intent; interactions; international; interviewees; issues; job; journal; levels; management; mechanisms; munns; nature; need; negative; new; open; organisation; outcomes; parties; partners; party; people; personalities; positive; potential; problems; process; procurement; project; project engineer; project environment; project management; project manager; project outcomes; project success; project team; quantity; regard; relationships; repair; research; result; review; risk; senior; senior project; services; significant; slevin; stakeholders; strahorn; study; subcontractor; success; surveyor; team; terms; time; trading; traditional; trust; trusting; trustworthiness; uncertainty; understanding; value; variables; vulnerability; way; work; working
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        item: #243 of 394
          id: ajceb-4466
      author: Elmualim, Abbas
       title: Book Review: Leadership and Sustainability in the Built Environment
        date: 2015-06-01
       words: 714
      flesch: 44
     summary: The book provides an interesting discussion around leadership theory and proposes 26 characteristics of sustainability leadership in the built environment. Part 1 deals with organisational leadership.
    keywords: abbas; ahmed; book; building; change; construction; economics; elmualim; environment; leadership; opoku; research; review; sustainability
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        item: #244 of 394
          id: ajceb-4514
      author: Musa, Mohammed Mukhtar; Bin Amirudin, Roslan; Sofield, Trevor; Musa, Mohammed Aminu
       title: Influence of External Environmental Factors on the Success of Public Housing Projects in Developing Countries
        date: 2015-11-23
       words: 7681
      flesch: 43
     summary: The purpose of this paper is to establish the effect of these factors on public housing project success using structural equation modelling (SEM) techniques. The results reveal that (i) the economics factor significantly affects public housing project success, (ii) the social factor significantly affects public housing project success, and (iii) the political factor significantly affects public housing project success.
    keywords: achievement; adequate; amirudin; budget; building; concerns; construction; construction projects; cost; countries; criteria; critical; critical success; design; developers; development; doi; earners; economic; end; engineering; environment; external; factors; financing; framework; government; habitat; housing; housing development; housing project; impact; income; influence; infrastructure; interest; international; journal; land; legal; lim; location; low; macro; management; management success; materials; measures; members; model; musa; nigeria; people; political; private; project; project management; project success; provision; public; public housing; quality; rate; related; results; satisfaction; sector; significant; social; sofield; standardised; structural; study; success; success criteria; success factors; successful; support; system; table; team; time; units; user; variables; viewpoint
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        item: #245 of 394
          id: ajceb-4544
      author: Finnie, David; Ameer Ali, Naseem
       title: The New Zealand Construction Contracts Amendment Act 2015 - For Better or Worse?
        date: 2015-11-23
       words: 6471
      flesch: 33
     summary: Section 31, which prohibits charging orders over residential construction contracts, was however, retained. This can however still be achieved by way of publishing regulations to the new Construction Contracts Amendment Act 2015.
    keywords: acceptance; adjudication; adjudicators; ali; ameer; amendment; amendment act; amendment bill; april; available; bayley; bill; building; changes; clients; commerce; commercial; commercial contracts; committee; conference; construction; construction contracts; construction economics; contracts; contracts amendment; days; design; determinations; disputes; distinction; economics; enforcement; engineering; finnie; head; monies; new; new zealand; notice; october; parties; payment; pre; process; professionals; provisions; residential; retentions; rights; scope; services; submissions; time; tribunal; trust; work; working; zealand
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        item: #246 of 394
          id: ajceb-4551
      author: Chancellor, Will
       title: Drivers of Productivity: a Case Study of the Australian Construction Industry
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 6385
      flesch: 39
     summary: The factors selected for analysis were chosen as the best available representation of construction productivity drivers based on previous research and data Construction Economics and Building, 15(3), 85-97 Chancellor 96 availability. Tasmania Northern Territory n/a 0.978 Australian Capital Territory 0.561 3 Values left blank where P ≥ 0.05, indicating no statistical significance Construction Economics and Building, 15(3), 85-97 Chancellor 95 Table 3 indicates the significance and direction of state level construction productivity drivers.
    keywords: analysis; apprentices; australian; australian construction; building; bureau; capital; cat; chancellor; commission; construction; construction industry; construction productivity; correlation; data; dea; development; doi; drivers; economics; efficiency; estimates; expenditure; factors; figure; färe; growth; independent; industry; innovation; input; labour; level; level construction; method; national; national level; negative; new; number; output; o’donnell; positive; possible; primont; productivity; productivity growth; regression; regulation; research; results; safety; scale; significant; south; state; state level; statistics; study; table; technical; territory; time; unionisation; variable; wales; western
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        item: #247 of 394
          id: ajceb-4572
      author: Daniel, Luke
       title: Safety Leadership Defined within the Australian Construction Industry
        date: 2015-11-23
       words: 7414
      flesch: 45
     summary: Other comments that further support this view point include: “Safety leadership is leadership in general, leading by example” and “that the problem with safety leadership is that we’ve divorced it from all types of leadership” and “regardless of the subject, the style of leadership should be the same”. Safety leadership defined within the Australian construction industry, Construction Economics and Building, 15(4), 1-15.
    keywords: application; approach; aspects; australian; authentic; behaviours; broader; building; business; coding; communication; company; components; concept; construction; context; core; crisis; daniel; data; definition; detailed; differences; discipline; doi; economics; elements; employees; engagement; environment; exchange; exploratory; factors; field; figure; findings; framework; gardner; general; general leadership; health; hse; impact; importance; industry; influence; information; job; journal; leadership; literature; management; managers; member; organisational; participants; performance; personal; perspective; positions; process; project; psychology; relationships; research; results; review; safety; safety leadership; sample; sampling; science; scope; separate; size; social; study; themes; topic; transactional; transformational; transparency; values; work; years
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        item: #248 of 394
          id: ajceb-4600
      author: Livesey, Peter Vincent
       title: Insights of project managers into the problems in project management
        date: 2016-03-08
       words: 6852
      flesch: 47
     summary: Related to the number of project teams and stakeholders involved in the project. Changes in project team and stakeholder personnel resulting in: a. Loss of a cohesive team
    keywords: average; backgrounds; building; changes; cohesive; comments; communication; construction; cultural; delphi; development; differences; different; doi; economics; external; factors; frequency; geographic; goals; importance; index; information; international; issues; items; journal; lack; language; literature; livesey; locations; loss; management; managers; mean; members; method; nature; need; occurrence; panel; particular; personal; pmbok; problems; professional; project; project management; ranking; relative; research; respondent; resultant; results; review; scope; significant; size; skills; stakeholders; study; table; team; team management; team members; temporary; time; trust; type; unique
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        item: #249 of 394
          id: ajceb-4601
      author: Eriksson, Therese
       title: Developing Routines in Large Inter-organisational Projects: A Case Study of an Infrastructure Megaproject
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 8265
      flesch: 37
     summary: For these reasons, project routines are imperative to understand in order to improve megaproject performance (Davies and Brady, 2015). Though project routines can derive from parent organisations, project-specific routines can also be developed and implemented to a greater extent in megaprojects, given their size and extended timeframes, than in more routine, small-scale projects.
    keywords: activities; aspects; assignments; becker; brady; building; capabilities; case; changes; client; construction; consultant; context; cooperation; coordination; davies; design; development; documents; doi; early; economics; eriksson; evolution; example; experiences; external; feldman; gersick; group; guidelines; hackman; head; individuals; industry; infrastructure; innovative; inter; jarzabkowski; journal; knowledge; large; leader; learning; level; limited; management; manager; meetings; megaprojects; members; model; new; novel; observations; organisation; ostensive; paper; participants; pentland; performative; phase; planning; practice; process; processes; project; project management; project members; project routines; proposition; public; research; review; rock; routines; series; specific; sta; station; structured; studies; study; table; technical; temporary; time; work
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        item: #250 of 394
          id: ajceb-4602
      author: Tan, Willie
       title: Guest Editorial: Perspectives on Megaprojects
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 1662
      flesch: 56
     summary: This question is not trivial; unless one is able to identify the properties of a megaproject as an object of study, it is hard to know where to start thinking about such projects. Similarly, Flyvbjerg, Bruzelius and Rothengatter (2003) raised the old issue of why project costs tend to be underestimated (see Waterston (1965) for an early account of this) and, more generally, the lack of accountability in public projects.
    keywords: building; complexity; conflict; construction; development; doi; e.g.; early; economics; example; group; growth; large; management; megaprojects; miller; new; perspectives; politics; press; properties; resistance; risk; rural; studies; study; tan; term; theory; university; urban; willie; york
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        item: #251 of 394
          id: ajceb-4607
      author: Kamardeen, Imriyas
       title: Critically Reflective Pedagogical Model: a Pragmatic Blueprint for Enhancing Learning and Teaching in Construction Disciplines
        date: 2015-11-23
       words: 6690
      flesch: 36
     summary: (2) Making available a range of materials to support student learning in both digital and hardcopy formats – background/additional readings for particular topics; inspirational examples/cases; past examples of assignments; and a list of references (web links and references) to relevant materials; and (3) In the preparation of learning resources for students: structuring the coverage logically, enabling self-study by students; link the materials with class tasks and assignments; and optimise the content – not too much or too little. The students’ eye (student feedback) – relates pedagogical approaches that may need adjustments or that can be improved for better effects.
    keywords: active; adequate; analysis; assessment; assignments; author; available; better; blueprint; brookfield; building; case; characteristics; class; colleagues; communication; construction; construction economics; content; cost; critical; data; delivery; design; development; different; economics; education; educators; effectiveness; examples; excellence; exercises; experience; feedback; figure; framework; groups; higher; industry; kamardeen; learning; lecturer; lens; management; materials; methods; model; module; new; online; overall; pedagogical; pedagogical model; phase; positive; practice; pragmatic; preferred; projects; qualities; quality; quizzes; real; reflections; reflective; reflective teaching; research; resources; review; second; self; slides; students; study; subject; support; survey; tasks; teaching; teaching practice; theories; time; tutorials; university; use; views; world
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        item: #252 of 394
          id: ajceb-4608
      author: Manderson, Aaron; Jefferies, Marcus; Brewer, Graham
       title: Building Information Modelling and Standardised Construction Contracts: a Content Analysis of the GC21 Contract
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 8005
      flesch: 41
     summary: Standardised construction contracts A construction contract can be defined as “any contract where one person [or corporation] agrees for a value consideration to carry out construction works which may include building or engineering works for another” (Loots and Charrett, 2009 p.23). The results of the analysis identified a number of contract changes including: • Adopting a collaborative procurement tool that includes a fair and equitable distribution of risk, responsibility and reward and in particular Professional Liability; •
    keywords: adoption; aec; allocation; analysis; architectural; ashcraft; australia; bim; brewer; building; business; categories; challenges; changes; collaborative; communication; conditions; consideration; construction; content; contract; contractual; current; data; delivery; design; digital; document; doi; e 01; e nd; economics; engineering; environment; frame; gc21; government; implementation; industry; information; integration; interoperability; issues; jefferies; journal; law; legal; level; liability; management; manderson; modelling; n ot; nd p; need; new; nsw; nt n; nt p; ot p; performance; process; processes; procurement; professional; project; protocols; public; qualitative; requirements; research; responsibilities; risk; se nt; sector; security; specific; standard; standardised; su e; subcategories; technology; tool; use
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        item: #253 of 394
          id: ajceb-4609
      author: Lu, Yujie; Li, Yongkui; Pang, Da; Zhang, Yunxia
       title: Organizational Network Evolution and Governance Strategies in Megaprojects
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 6582
      flesch: 45
     summary: The purpose of project network governance is to help improve the project performance and stabilize the whole network. For instance, Provan, Milward and Isett (2002)_ENREF_31 explained the core problem of organization network governance is governance mechanism  including commitment, contract and contract.
    keywords: a12004; a13028; a13039; analysis; average; building; c23174; case; centrality; china; closeness; collaboration; companies; company; complex; component; connected; connections; construction; construction projects; data; degree; density; design; development; different; doi; economics; effective; engineering; evolution; figure; future; gips; gips network; governance; government; high; higher; individual; international; journal; key; long; m11016; m11219; m12108; management; market; mechanisms; megaproject; network; network analysis; network governance; new; nodes; number; order; organization; organizational network; overall; owners; pang; participants; performance; pips; pips network; policies; policy; private; project; project organization; relationship; research; result; sna; social; social network; stable; strategies; structure; study; system; time; wnhtdz; wuxi; year; zhang
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        item: #254 of 394
          id: ajceb-4610
      author: Ko, Joong-Hoon; Park, Sung-Hun; Kim, Dae-Cheol
       title: Efficiency Analysis of Project Management Offices for Large-scale Information System Projects: Insights for Construction Megaprojects
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 6930
      flesch: 59
     summary: % -11% -16% -19% 0% 16% 16% 16% 33% 22 0.71 0% -22% 0% -3% 0% 40% 63% 51% 185% 24 0.80 0% Improving project management.
    keywords: alignment; analysis; bcc; building; business; ccr; compliance; construction; cost; crs; customer; data; dea; degree; dmus; drs; economics; efficiencies; efficiency; factors; functions; groups; high; higher; improvement; inefficient; information; infrastructure; input; kim; large; levels; management; model; number; outcomes; output; park; percent; performance; pmo; pmos; practice; project; project management; relative; resource; results; scale; schedule; study; support; table; technical; value; variables; yrs
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        item: #255 of 394
          id: ajceb-4611
      author: Fahri, Johan; Biesenthal, Christopher; Pollack, Julien; Sankaran, Shankar
       title: Understanding Megaproject Success beyond the Project Close-Out Stage
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 6248
      flesch: 45
     summary: Traditionally project success has been measured at the point where the project outputs are handed over, after the close out phase. Recently, questions have been raised in the literature as to whether we should be evaluating project success beyond the close out phase, to better account for organizational and societal outcomes.
    keywords: 2008; 2013; analysis; archibald; assessment; benefits; biesenthal; building; business; client; close; competence; completion; construction; cost; criteria; critical; csfs; decision; deliverables; doi; economics; engineering; evaluation; factors; fahri; filippo; financial; flyvbjerg; goals; impact; implementation; importance; information; international; issues; journal; large; lee; level; lifecycle; management; megaprojects; need; new; ogunlana; organizational; outcomes; outputs; performance; phase; pollack; post; process; program; project; project evaluation; project management; project success; quality; research; results; sankaran; satisfaction; stage; stakeholders; strategic; studies; study; success; success factors; support; systems; table; technology; time; turner; understanding; zolin
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          id: ajceb-4613
      author: Bröchner, Jan
       title: Measuring Construction: Prices, Output and Productivity
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 1078
      flesch: 49
     summary: How PPPs can be used for comparing construction prices is a recurrent theme in this anthology, but not the only one. After a lucid, not-too-complicated introduction to the theory of PPPs by G. Runeson, the two editors, R. Best and J. Meikle, are responsible for two chapters on international comparisons of construction prices.
    keywords: 2015; approach; best; book; bröchner; building; construction; contractors; data; economics; editors; indices; international; level; mac; meikle; output; ppps; prices; productivity; review; university
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        item: #257 of 394
          id: ajceb-4617
      author: Langston, Craig
       title: Green Roof Evaluation: A Holistic ‘Long Life, Loose Fit, Low Energy’ Approach
        date: 2015-11-23
       words: 7135
      flesch: 48
     summary: Comparison of green roofs cost in Germany, Brazil and USA Multiple locations Green roofs are more economical in long term than non-green roofs Economic Benefit cost- ratio Source: Peng and Jim (2015) Economic evaluation of the environmental benefits of green roofs Hong Kong Green roofs can address climate change challenges with extensive green roofs being economically attractive to intensive types, offering life cycle higher benefit- cost ratio and faster payback. It is discovered that green roofs are unlikely to be viable in their own right, but when coupled with an overall design strategy of long life (durability), loose fit (adaptability) and low energy (sustainability) they can deliver least cost (affordability) over time as well as unlock valuable social and environmental rewards.
    keywords: air; analysis; approach; area; assessment; australia; available; benefits; building; capital; carbon; case; change; climate; comparative; comparison; construction; construction economics; conventional; cost; criteria; criterion; cycle; data; depth; design; doi; economic; energy; environmental; evaluation; extensive; extra; figure; floor; flow; footprint; framework; future; gold; green; green roof; heat; higher; holistic; home; housing; initial; insulation; intensive; intensive green; langston; life; long; loose; low; lower; maintenance; mass; new; non; operating; overall; paper; people; performance; point; potential; project; qbl; quality; recurrent; research; residential; roof; roof project; site; social; soil; source; strategy; studies; study; sustainability; sustainable; systems; table; thermal; time; traditional; traditional project; type; university; urban; use; value; walls; water; years
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        item: #258 of 394
          id: ajceb-4619
      author: Arewa, Andrew Oyen; Farrell, Peter
       title: The Culture of Construction Organisations: the Epitome of Institutionalised Corruption
        date: 2015-08-31
       words: 8156
      flesch: 47
     summary: The culture of construction organisations: the epitome of institutionalised corruption, Construction Economics and Building, 15(3), 59-71. Hitherto the role of the culture of construction organisations in fraud and corruption activities has been largely hidden.
    keywords: activities; arewa; arrangements; august; available; based; bribery; building; business; case; clients; common; companies; company; competition; complex; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction organisations; contracts; contractual; corruption; culture; data; development; doi; economics; example; farrell; findings; fine; fraud; fraudulent; global; government; group; high; human; industry; influence; infrastructure; institute; international; interviews; involvement; journal; july; key; large; level; lobbying; main; major; management; manager; methods; nature; new; number; officers; organisational culture; organisations; participants; people; practices; private; processes; profile; profit; project; project culture; publication; questionnaire; rent; report; research; sector; seeking; stansbury; studies; study; subcontractors; table; tendering; theory; transparency; use; way
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        item: #259 of 394
          id: ajceb-4634
      author: Rahmani, Farshid; Khalfan, Malik M A; Maqsood, Tayyab
       title: Lessons learnt from the use of relationship-based procurement methods in Australia: clients’ perspectives
        date: 2016-06-13
       words: 7712
      flesch: 41
     summary: This proposes that despite the possibility of a decline in the rate of using RBP for public projects, the number of RBP projects with higher success is more likely to increase. Subsequently, the construction industry has embarked on a sustained campaign to overcome its perceived performance problems through a number of initiatives and radically different approaches to the procurement and management of construction projects.
    keywords: alliancing; analysis; approach; australia; available; building; clients; collaborative; competition; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contract; contracting; contractors; contractual; culture; delivery; department; design; development; different; doi; early; economics; engineering; environment; factors; findings; future; good; government; individual; industry; infrastructure; innovation; internal; interviews; involvement; journal; key; khalfan; london; love; major; management; manager; maqsood; mcdermott; merriam; methods; money; need; new; number; organization; paper; participants; partnering; perception; process; procurement; program; project; public; qualitative; rahmani; rbp; rbps; relationship; research; resources; respondents; results; review; sector; selection; senior; smith; state; strategies; strauss; study; systems; team; theory; traditional; university; use; validity; value; walker; working; years
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        item: #260 of 394
          id: ajceb-4651
      author: Hosseini, M.Reza; Chileshe, Nicholas; Jepson, Jacqueline; Arashpour, Mehrdad
       title: Critical success factors for implementing risk management systems in developing countries
        date: 2016-03-08
       words: 7840
      flesch: 44
     summary: Project risk management in the Queensland engineering construction industry: a survey. Choosing project risk management techniques.
    keywords: arashpour; assessment; associations; awareness; building; chileshe; clients; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction projects; consultants; context; contractors; corkindale; countries; country; critical; csfs; data; different; doi; economics; education; effective; environment; factors; figure; findings; hosseini; hypothesis; implementation; importance; industry; international; involved; iqbal; iran; iranian; irms; jaafar; jepson; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; level; management; management implementation; management systems; managers; nasri; organisations; overall; parties; perceptions; practitioners; process; projects; questionnaire; ram; related; research; respondents; results; risk; risk management; role; studies; study; success; support; systems; tabassi; table; tadayon; test; training; variables
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        item: #261 of 394
          id: ajceb-4653
      author: Oo, Bee Lan; Ling, Florence Yean Yng; Soo, Alexander
       title: Construction Procurement: Modelling Bidders’ Learning in Recurrent Bidding
        date: 2015-11-23
       words: 7864
      flesch: 45
     summary: The findings advocate for adequate bidding feedback information in clients’ procurement design to facilitate learning among contractors, which may in turn lead to increased competitiveness in their bids. For clients, they should consider providing adequate bidding feedback information in their procurement policy in order to obtain competitive bid prices.
    keywords: average; behavior; bidders; bidding; bidding feedback; bids; building; clients; competitive; competitiveness; conditions; construction; construction bidding; construction economics; contractors; cost; dataset; different; doi; drew; economics; effects; empirical; estimates; experimental; feedback; feedback conditions; feedback group; group; heterogeneity; individual; individual bidders; inexperienced; inexperienced bidders; information; information feedback; journal; learning; ling; lmm; management; mean; model; modelling; mup; parameter; partial; phase; population; price; process; procurement; profiles; project; random; recurrent; recurrent bidding; research; results; round; soo; specific; start; state; steady; study; subjects; success; time; variables; winning
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        item: #262 of 394
          id: ajceb-4662
      author: Oluwatayo, Adedapo Adewunmi; Amole, Dolapo; Uwakonye, Obioha
       title: Organisational life cycle, business orientation and performances of architectural firms in Nigeria
        date: 2016-03-08
       words: 7890
      flesch: 53
     summary: It may therefore be expedient to find out the business orientation of architectural firms and determine whether combinations of business orientation and life cycle stages that could lead to better performance, do exist. The decline stage, which is characterised by low innovation and informal procedure (Silvola, 2008) was not captured in the categorisation of life cycle stages of architectural firms.
    keywords: activeness; amole; analysis; architectural; architectural firms; available; better; birth; building; business; business orientation; centralisation; clients; cluster; construction; cycle; cycle stages; data; decision; decline; different; dimensions; doi; dominant; economics; firms; formalisation; growth; high; infancy; journal; level; life; life cycle; low; lynch; making; management; market; mastery; momentum; new; nigeria; number; office; oluwatayo; organisational; orientation; percent; performance; procedures; professional; profit; profitability; prominence; resources; results; service; specialisation; stability; staff; stage; strategic; structure; study; survival; uwakonye; variables; variance; way; years
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        item: #263 of 394
          id: ajceb-4668
      author: Bröchner, Jan; Lagerqvist, Ove
       title: From ideas to construction innovations: firms and universities collaborating
        date: 2016-03-08
       words: 8153
      flesch: 35
     summary: It is thus necessary to recognize that productivity effects may arise in a number of industries other than construction as a consequence of construction innovation projects, just as the project initiatives may come from other industries. Although this may have contributed to a higher degree of construction sector relevance of university research, the sweeping change in government research policies in 2000 led to the inclusion of built environment research funding in a new research council, Formas, with a clearer scientific profile (Bröchner and Sjöström, 2003).
    keywords: academic; access; analysis; analytical; applicant; applications; barriers; board; bröchner; building; business; bygginnovationen; case; collaboration; commercialization; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction innovation; contacts; data; development; doi; d’este; earlier; economics; education; engineering; field; firms; functions; funding; government; grants; higher; ideas; important; industries; industry; informal; information; innovation; interaction; joint; knowledge; laboratories; laboratory; lagerqvist; management; manufacturers; manufacturing; mean; measurement; mobility; msc; new; participation; phd; policies; policy; problem; programme; projects; r&d; related; research; research projects; researchers; respondents; results; science; scientific; sector; smes; solving; studies; study; support; survey; swedish; table; technology; time; types; understanding; universities; university; use; views; vinnova; work
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        item: #264 of 394
          id: ajceb-4681
      author: Panahi, Babak; Moezzi, Elena; Preece, Christopher; Zakaria, Wan; Rogers, John
       title: Predictor Role of Profession in Explaining Personal Value Priorities and Conflicts between Construction Stakeholders
        date: 2015-11-23
       words: 7938
      flesch: 41
     summary: Personal value conflicts is the agenda of this paper. This confirms the necessity for further investigation into personal value conflicts between the professional construction stakeholders.
    keywords: achievement; analysis; architect; architect engineer; benevolence; better; building; change; commitment; conflicts; conformity; conservation; construction; construction economics; construction stakeholders; differences; different; direction; doi; economics; engineer; engineering; enhancement; fit; goal; groups; hedonism; higher; industry; journal; level; literature; management; materialism; mean; moezzi; openness; order; order value; orientedness; p<0.01; pair; panahi; people; personal; personal values; potential; power; preece; prestige; priorities; professional; project; quantity; quantity surveyor; relations; research; rogers; schwartz; security; self; significant; social; stakeholders; stimulation; study; surveyor; surveyor architect; table; total; tradition; transcendence; types; universalism; value conflicts; value types; values; work; zakaria
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        item: #265 of 394
          id: ajceb-4721
      author: Elmualim, Abbas
       title: What is to be Done? : Climate Change for Beginners
        date: 2015-11-23
       words: 823
      flesch: 45
     summary: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v15i4.4721 mailto:abbas.elmualim@unisa.edu.au http://www.edgedebate.com/?page_id=2829 Construction Economics and Building, 15 (4), 106-107 Elmualim 107 • Tackling the gap between what is promised by the industry and what is really delivered while developing common metrics and committing to measurement and evaluation, and the dissemination of findings; • Developing and standardising a national code of conduct/ethics across the built environment professions, building on shared experience in the UK and internationally; • Urging built environment institutions to commit to a cross disciplinary review of the silo nature of the education system and establish a joint think tank that could pool the resources of the Institutions to conduct research and develop policy for the industry. The debate around the definition was already taking place during his early work (Bon 2001) and it is surprising to see it continue within the construction and built environment community today.
    keywords: beginners; bon; book; building; change; climate; construction; economics; elmualim; environment; industry; report; review; sustainability; work
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          id: ajceb-4741
      author: Steinhardt, Dale A; Manley, Karen
       title: Exploring the beliefs of Australian prefabricated house builders
        date: 2016-06-13
       words: 7775
      flesch: 40
     summary: This is not surprising given the well-established inertia of construction industry practice. Government housing tenders were criticised by interviewees for their short-sighted criteria that limited opportunities for prefabrication firms.
    keywords: ability; acceptance; adoption; advantages; ajzen; analysis; attitudes; australia; behaviour; beliefs; blismas; builders; building; business; changes; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contextual; control; cost; current; data; decisions; development; disadvantages; doi; early; ease; economics; efficiency; energy; established; factors; firms; focus; future; goulding; government; high; house; housing; impact; improved; industry; influences; information; innovation; interviews; issues; journal; key; lack; level; like; likely; long; management; manley; manufacturing; market; methods; model; network; new; onsite; paper; phone; planned; policy; potential; prefabricated; prefabrication; previous; process; project; qualitative; quality; queensland; range; regulatory; research; residential; risk; significant; small; speed; stakeholders; steinhardt; studies; study; subjective; success; support; systems; table; tam; technology; term; theoretical; theory; time; tpb; trades; traditional; types; use; western; wider; work
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        item: #267 of 394
          id: ajceb-4811
      author: Panahi, Babak; Preece, Christopher Nigel; Wan Zakaria, Wan Normeza
       title: Personal-organisational value conflicts and job satisfaction of internal construction stakeholders
        date: 2016-03-08
       words: 7925
      flesch: 38
     summary: Abstract This paper concerns the issue of value conflicts in construction organizations. The results generated by the analyses indicated a high level of value conflicts in the construction organizations which significantly and negatively affected job satisfaction of the internal stakeholders.
    keywords: analyses; b1d; behaviour; building; change; characteristics; clercq; commitment; comparative; conflict; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction projects; construction stakeholders; culture; difference; doi; economics; effects; employees; engineering; engineers; factors; figure; fit; hierarchical; higher; individual; industry; internal; internal construction; international; job; job satisfaction; journal; level; literature; malaysia; management; mean; measure; model; moezzi; order; organisational values; organizational; p<0.01; pair; panahi; performance; personal; personal values; power; preece; profiles; projects; questionnaire; regression; relationship; research; respondents; satisfaction; security; self; significant; social; stakeholders; survey; table; tepeci; theory; types; university; value conflicts; values; variables; variance; work; zakaria
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        item: #268 of 394
          id: ajceb-4813
      author: Ding, Grace; Forsythe, Perry
       title: A comparative study of floor construction on sloping sites: an analysis of cumulative energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions
        date: 2016-03-08
       words: 8864
      flesch: 51
     summary: The two main options in the Australian context include reinforced concrete raft slab construction and suspended timber floor construction. Group A: 12 projects using reinforced concrete raft slab construction including cut and fill bulk excavation and related retaining wall construction for the footprint area of the dwelling; • Group B: 12 projects using suspended timber floor construction built on top of the existing topography (i.e. no bulk excavation) and an open subfloor.
    keywords: analysis; area; assessment; associated; australia; building; carbon; cement; change; climate; co2; concrete; concrete raft; construction; construction economics; construction methods; consumption; cumulative; cumulative energy; cut; cycle; data; demand; design; detached; different; doi; drainage; dummy; economics; emissions; end; energy; energy demand; environmental; excavation; fill; floor; floor construction; footings; footprint; forsythe; gas; gfa; ghg; ghg emissions; greenhouse; ground; group; impact; lca; life; low; main; materials; methods; option; performance; process; products; projects; raft; research; results; significant; site; slab; slope; sloping; soil; standards; steel; structure; study; system; table; test; timber; timber floor; times; total; types; unit; use; variables; wall; wood; work
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        item: #269 of 394
          id: ajceb-4818
      author: Oo, Bee Lan
       title: On the external validity of construction bidding experiment
        date: 2016-03-08
       words: 6864
      flesch: 42
     summary: On the external validity of construction bidding experiment, Construction Economics and Building, 16(1), 64-75. It compares the bidding behavioural patterns of experienced construction executives (professionals) and student subjects through replication of a bidding experiment that aimed at testing theories.
    keywords: b.l; bid; bidders; bidding; bids; booming; building; conditions; construction; construction bidding; construction economics; data; decision; different; doi; drew; economics; effects; engineering; experimental; experimental subjects; external; field; findings; groups; higher; journal; laboratory; management; mark; market; nonstudent; number; pool; probability; project; proportions; qualitative; recession; research; results; sample; scenario; similar; sin; social; soo; student; student subjects; studies; study; subjects; table; terms; test; testing; theory; use; validity; work
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        item: #270 of 394
          id: ajceb-4819
      author: Liu, Chunlu; He, Shimeng
       title: Input–output structures of the Australian construction industry
        date: 2016-06-13
       words: 7149
      flesch: 48
     summary: The literature has disclosed two main trends for construction industries in developed economies. Hu and McAleer (2004) applied input–output tables to the analysis of construction industry structure and inter-industry relationships, and the relationship of construction to national economic growth in China.
    keywords: 1990s; activities; analysis; australian; australian construction; backward; basic; bon; building; change; coefficient; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction sector; countries; data; demand; doi; economics; economy; effect; employment; equation; figure; forward; gni; gnp; goods; growth; higher; highest; indicators; industries; input; linkage; liu; management; metals; multipliers; national; output; particular; period; person; products; proportion; pull; push; research; sector; sectoral; services; structure; study; tables; total; trade; trend; values; wiod; years
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        item: #271 of 394
          id: ajceb-4828
      author: Sanni, Afeez Olalekan
       title: Factors determining the success of public private partnership projects in Nigeria
        date: 2016-06-13
       words: 7339
      flesch: 45
     summary: The identified challenges could then be avoided while success factors could be noted and incorporated into future projects by the public sector participants. Success factors: public works and public-private partnerships.
    keywords: allocation; analysis; available; benefit; building; chan; cheung; commitment; consortium; construction; countries; critical; data; delivery; development; doi; economic; environment; factors; favourable; feedback; financial; good; government; implementation; important; infrastructure; journal; key; management; method; nigeria; objectives; participants; partnership; policy; political; ppp; ppp projects; ppp success; principal; private; private sector; process; procurement; projects; public; public private; public sector; questionnaire; respondents; result; risk; sanni; sector; service; short; significance; sound; strong; study; success; success factors; successful; support; survey; table; test; total; variables; variance; wong; × ×
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        item: #272 of 394
          id: ajceb-4866
      author: Utama, Wahyudi P; Chan, Albert P.C.; Zahoor, Hafiz; Gao, Ran
       title: Review of research trend in international construction projects: a bibliometric analysis
        date: 2016-06-13
       words: 6314
      flesch: 47
     summary: The figure clearly illustrates that quantitative research, survey method for data acquisition, and descriptive analysis style, are the scientific methods steering part of ICP research papers. Figure 4: The sources of research funding Trends of research topic To figure out the evolution of ICP research topics from 1995 to 2014, firstly they are categorized into six closely related interests namely 1) industrial development, 2) risk management and assessment, 3) global and entry strategy, 4) critical success factors and barriers, 5) competition and performance, and 6) knowledge-management and decision making.
    keywords: 2001; 2003; 2005; analysis; arditi; area; articles; assessment; authors; birgonul; building; chan; citation; construction; construction economics; construction engineering; construction management; construction projects; countries; country; data; decision; development; diekmann; dikmen; doi; economics; engineering; entry; factors; figure; gao; global; hong; icp; international; international construction; jcem; journal; kim; kong; management; manuscripts; market; methods; number; overseas; paper; period; projects; relevant; research; researchers; review; risk; scopus; score; shen; studies; study; table; term; topic; total; trend; university; utama; wos; year; zahoor
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        item: #273 of 394
          id: ajceb-4873
      author: Teo, Ai Lin Evelyn; Ofori, George; Tjandra, Imelda Krisiani; Kim, Hanjoon
       title: Design for safety: theoretical framework of the safety aspect of BIM system to determine the safety index
        date: 2016-12-08
       words: 10002
      flesch: 45
     summary: In short, DfS is designing for construction safety by implementing prevention methods in the design approach in order to achieve safe design. As such it helps to improve construction safety, and also minimizes delays due to reduced reworks during the Intelligent Productivity and Safety System (IPASS) Safety Productivity* Hazard Check Control Measure WSH Evaluation Design/ BIM Rule Check Planning & Monitoring  Conformance to performance standards and regulations (F5)
    keywords: algorithm; analysis; application; aspect; assessment; authority; available; bca; bim; building; check; checking; clash; consass; construction; construction bim; construction economics; construction industry; construction safety; contractors; control; council; data; design; designers; detection; dfs; different; doi; economics; engineering; fall; february; figure; firms; framework; gambatese; hazards; health; identification; improvement; index; industry; information; institute; ipass; kim; level; main; management; measures; model; modelling; monitoring; necessary; number; ofori; online; paper; pdf; performance; planning; possible; potential; practices; prevention; process; productivity; project; proposed; regulations; research; respondents; review; risks; rules; safety; safety aspect; safety performance; score; simulation; singapore; site; specific; stage; study; survey; system; table; teo; theoretical; tjandra; use; validation; worker; workplace; workplace safety; wsh; zhang
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        item: #274 of 394
          id: ajceb-4879
      author: Ng, Thomas; Wong, Kelvin
       title: Book Review - The Soft Power of Construction Contracting Organisations
        date: 2016-03-08
       words: 754
      flesch: 41
     summary: Some readers, particularly practitioners from the industry, might want some elaboration on the content and we suggest that the authors consider a companion volume with case studies and examples that could include studies and lessons learned from other industries as well. This would be important for uplifting industry performance in general as teams can collectively make improvements so that they would be in better positions to compete with other teams.
    keywords: book; building; chapter; construction; contracting; economics; engineering; industry; learning; organisations; power; soft; wong
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        item: #275 of 394
          id: ajceb-4882
      author: Gurmu, Argaw Tarekegn; Aibinu, Ajibade Ayodeji; Chan, Toong Khuan
       title: A study of best management practices for enhancing productivity in building projects: construction methods perspectives
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 10786
      flesch: 50
     summary: In construction projects, the techniques of integration of different schedules; schedule controlling methods; mechanisms used in the preparation of site layout, project start-up and completion procedures; and investigation of suitable technologies are some of the methods considered as best practices. Regulatory bodies such as the Fair Work Commission stipulate minimum wages, working hours, overtime payments, penalty rates and other employment conditions in building construction projects.
    keywords: .001; activity; aibinu; analysis; applicable; associated; australia; baseline; best; best practices; building; building projects; chan; company; completion; completion plan; construction; construction economics; construction methods; construction projects; continuation; contractors; control; control plan; cost; critical; data; delay; deliverables; different; doi; dynamic; economics; equipment; experience; gurmu; handover; hours; implementation; important; industry; innovations; integrated; journal; layout; layout plan; level; level e; logistic; machinery; management; management practices; materials; methods; model; new; participants; percent; plan; positioning; practices; principal; productivity; progress; project; project completion; quantity; regression; research; resources; results; schedule; score; security; significant; site; start; strategies; strategy; studies; study; sub; table; team; technologies; time; tool; traffic; use; value; victoria; work; work schedule; working
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        item: #276 of 394
          id: ajceb-4892
      author: Akotia, Julius; Opoku, Alex; Egbu, Charles; Fortune, Chris
       title: Exploring the knowledge ‘base’ of practitioners in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects
        date: 2016-06-13
       words: 7452
      flesch: 32
     summary: From the above results it can clearly be deduced that sustainable regeneration practitioners still consider environmental factors to be the most dominant feature of sustainability factor of sustainable regeneration projects. Exploring the knowledge ‘base’ of practitioners in the delivery of sustainable regeneration projects, Construction Economics and Building, 16(2), 14-26.
    keywords: akotia; appreciation; approach; benefits; building; business; challenges; clg; communities; community; concept; construction; current; delivery; development; doi; economic; economic sustainability; egbu; environmental; evaluation; factors; findings; fortune; good; government; housing; impact; industry; initiatives; interviews; issues; journal; key; knowledge; lack; limited; local; lombardi; london; main; management; manager; manner; mechanism; number; objectives; opoku; organisations; performance; physical; policy; practices; practitioners; projects; promotion; regeneration; regeneration projects; research; responses; social; socio; structured; study; sustainability; sustainability benefits; sustainability factors; sustainability projects; sustainable; sustainable development; sustainable regeneration; understanding; urban; work; years
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        item: #277 of 394
          id: ajceb-4965
      author: Gajendran, Thayaparan
       title: Book Review - Cost Studies of Buildings
        date: 2016-06-13
       words: 774
      flesch: 35
     summary: The chapters relating to costing information include sources of costs data, cost indices/trends, rules of measurement, cost analysis and taxation/incentives. that are providing greater opportunities for data sourcing and integration (e.g. integrating design data/libraries, functional data and cost data) and collaborative ways of working.
    keywords: book; building; chapters; construction; cost; costing; data; e.g.; economics; gajendran; information; practice; principles; section; studies; sustainability; theoretical
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          id: ajceb-4979
      author: Abisuga, Abiodun Olatunji; Famakin, Ibukun O.; Oshodi, Olalekan S.
       title: Educational building conditions and the health of users
        date: 2016-12-08
       words: 8932
      flesch: 48
     summary: Previously, researchers have studied user satisfaction with educational facilities using a post occupancy evaluation (Adewumi et al., 2011; McGrath and Horton, 2011; Sawyerr and Yusof, 2013), performance of educational buildings (Hassanain, 2008; Wong and Jan, 2003), defects in educational buildings (Olanrewaju 2012; Wahab and Hamid, 2011), and effects of educational building facilities on academic performance of students (Leung and Fung, 2005; Uline and Tschannen-Moran, 2008). This study addresses the gap in the existing literature by investigating the relationships between educational building defects and the health of students and staff.
    keywords: abisuga; academic; air; analysis; building; building defects; case; classroom; cobwebs; conditions; construction; correlation; critical; damages; dampness; dampness problems; data; defects; design; doi; dust; economics; educational; educational buildings; electrical; environment; et al; evaluation; facilities; factors; famakin; fittings; grounds; health; health defects; health factors; health problems; indoor; institution; jan; joinery; journal; lagos; learning; life; literature; maintenance; management; members; method; model; nigeria; occupants; openings; oshodi; performance; physical; physical health; physiological; plumbing; polytechnic; poor; positive; post; problems; psychological; psychological health; quality; regression; related; relationship; research; results; safety; sbs; school; sick; significant; staff; state; students; studies; study; survey; symptoms; syndrome; table; university; users; value; variance; walls; water; wong
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        item: #279 of 394
          id: ajceb-4983
      author: Hosseinian, S. Mahdi
       title: An optimal time incentive/disincentive -based compensation in contracts with multiple agents
        date: 2016-12-08
       words: 9791
      flesch: 52
     summary: In construction literature, the notion of time incentive contracts is well established and discussions of such contracts date back to the early 1980s (Barnes, 1983). Holmstrom and Milgrom (1987); Construction and project management Theoretical investigation Utility theory Proposing a risk sharing model Lack of empirical research; considering one agent contracts; ignoring optimal time sharing Al-Subhi Al- Harbi (1998) Theoretical investigation Discussion Suggesting a proportion of time risk sharing to the agent more than 50% Lack of empirical research; ignoring agents risk attitudes and outcome uncertainties; considering one agent contracts; ignoring optimal time sharing Perry and Barnes (2000) Theoretical investigation Principal-agent theory Analyzing risk- sharing Lack of empirical research; considering one agent contracts, ignoring optimal time sharing Chang (2013) Theoretical and empirical investigation Agency theory, interviews Proposing optimal incentive contracts Considering one agent contracts; ignoring optimal time sharing Hosseinian and Carmichael (2013a, b and 2014) Empirical investigation Alliance contracting; interviews Proposing a risk sharing model Ignoring agents risk attitudes and project time uncertainties Love et al. (2011) Empirical investigation Questionnaire survey Presenting the effects of some factors on incentive contracts Considering one agent contracts; ignoring optimal time sharing Badenfelt (2008) Empirical investigation Questionnaire survey Developing a risk sharing model Considering one agent contracts; ignoring optimal time sharing Chan et al. (2011) Despite an extensive body of publications on time incentive contracts, a review of the literature, as shown in Table 1, reveals that few studies have examined the influence of factors affecting the choice of a time incentive arrangement (Al-Subhi Al-Harbi, 1998; Broome and Perry, 2002; Badenfelt, 2008; Hosseinian and Carmichael, 2013a, b and 2014).
    keywords: actual; agents; arrangement; averse; aversion; building; carmichael; chang; compensation; completion; completion time; construction; contracts; contribution; cost; disincentive; doi; economics; effort; empirical; engineering; equation; example; fee; figure; form; high; higher; holmstrom; hosseinian; incentive; incentive contracts; increase; journal; level; literature; love; low; lower; management; monetary; monetary time; multiple; needs; optimal; optimal time; optimization; outcome; overrun; paper; participants; parties; principal; problem; project; project time; proportion; ratio; research; results; risk; risk aversion; sharing; table; target; team; theoretical; theory; time; time incentive; time sharing; time uncertainty; time underrun; uncertainty; underrun; utility; value; work
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        item: #280 of 394
          id: ajceb-4984
      author: Ibem, Eziyi Offia; Aduwo, Egidario Bridget; Tunji-Olayeni, Patience; Ayo-Vaughan, Emmanuel Adekunle; Uwakonye, Uwakonye Obioha
       title: Factors influencing e-Procurement adoption in the Nigerian building industry
        date: 2016-12-08
       words: 7821
      flesch: 37
     summary: ePress Factors influencing e-Procurement adoption in the Nigerian building industry Eziyi Offia Ibem1, Egidario Bridget Aduwo1, Patience Tunji-Olayeni1, Emmanuel Adekunle Ayo-Vaughan2 and Uwakonye Obioha Uwakonye1 1Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria 2Bells University of Technology, Ota, Nigeria Abstract Against the backdrop of increasing adoption of e-Procurement in supply chain management, there is a need for adequate knowledge of the factors that influence the decision by organizations in the building industry to use e-Procurement. Lastly, the study also revealed that the benefits of e-Procurement use; organizational characteristics; availability and cost of e-Procurement technologies; size of organization and the level of awareness of e-Procurement in construction were the significant predictors of e-Procurement adoption in the NBI.
    keywords: activities; adoption; aduwo; analysis; attributes; availability; awareness; ayo; barriers; benefits; building; business; construction; construction industry; construction procurement; cost; data; decision; dimensions; doi; eadie; economics; efficiency; et al; factors; firms; framework; ibem; important; industry; influence; information; innovation; journal; key; laryea; level; literature; management; nbi; olayeni; organizations; paper; participants; process; procurement; procurement adoption; procurement technologies; procurement use; project; questionnaire; research; respondents; result; review; rogers; sector; size; studies; study; survey; table; technologies; technology; tools; tunji; use; uwakonye; vaughan; years
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        item: #281 of 394
          id: ajceb-4993
      author: Ke, Yongjian; Davis, Peter; Jefferies, Marcus
       title: A conceptual model of psychological contracts in construction projects
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 9087
      flesch: 38
     summary: Accordingly, this research aims to investigate whether the concept of PC can be applicable to the upstream (for example a client) or downstream (for example a specialist contractor) organisational relationships among procurement partners, and whether the PC can be adopted as a suitable framework to explore organisational relationships, thereby responding to the research question: how are relationships being nurtured in construction projects? A conceptual model of psychological contracts in construction projects, Construction Economics and Building, 16(3), 20-37.
    keywords: adjacent; agreement; australia; behaviours; benefits; better; box; building; characteristics; commitment; conceptual; conditions; construction; construction economics; construction projects; contracting; contracting behaviours; contracting parties; contracts; contractual; correlation; dainty; davis; dealing; delivery; development; disclosing; doi; economics; employee; engineering; extent; factors; fair; faith; figure; firm; future; good; higher; hypotheses; important; industry; information; international; jefferies; journal; level; ling; love; major; major partner; management; model; organisation; outcomes; parties; partner; past; pearson; perception; performance; procurement; procurement partner; project; project management; psychological; public; q15; q16; q17; q19; q20; q21; recent; relational; relationship; research; satisfaction; significance; statement; support; survey; trust; unwritten; walker; working; zou
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        item: #282 of 394
          id: ajceb-5028
      author: Langston, Craig; Ghanbaripour, Amir Naser
       title: A Management Maturity Model (MMM) for project-based organisational performance assessment
        date: 2016-12-08
       words: 8851
      flesch: 38
     summary: doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2007.10.007 Backlund, F., Chronéer, D. and Sundqvist, E. (2014) Project management maturity models - a critical review: a case study within Swedish engineering and construction organisations, Procedia Social and Behavioural Sciences, 119, 837-846. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.12.103 Pasian, B., Sankaran, S. and Boydell, S. (2012) Project management maturity: a critical analysis of existing and emergent factors, International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, 5(1), 146-157.
    keywords: approach; assessment; assessors; available; best; building; business; capabilities; capability; case; centre; cmmi; construction; context; continuous; cooke; core; cost; criteria; critical; customisable; cycle; data; davies; delivery; design; development; different; discipline; doi; domains; economics; engineering; environment; et al; evidence; example; factors; figure; firm; ghanbaripour; higher; improvement; industry; infrastructure; input; institute; integration; international; journal; key; kpi; langston; level; literature; management; management maturity; market; mature; maturity; maturity model; measure; methodology; mmm; model; needs; number; objectives; opm3; organisational; outcomes; overall; p3m3; pdca; performance; plan; pmbok; pmi; portfolio; practice; process; processes; program; project; project management; quality; relevant; research; review; risk; scope; software; strategic; strategy; study; success; successful; support; systematic; systems; thomas; time; tool; use; value; work
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        item: #283 of 394
          id: ajceb-5101
      author: Livesey, Peter Vincent
       title: Goleman-Boyatzis Model of Emotional Intelligence for Dealing with Problems in Project Management
        date: 2017-03-31
       words: 11207
      flesch: 47
     summary: Goleman-Boyatzis Model of Emotional Intelligence for Dealing with Problems in Project Management. Emotional Intelligence
    keywords: 2007; 2010; 2012; ability; analysis; awareness; backgrounds; bar; big; boyatzis; building; caruso; change; cluster; competencies; competency; construction; construction economics; control; definition; delphi; development; differences; different; dimensions; druskat; economics; emotional; emotional intelligence; emotions; engineering; experience; factors; following; friedman; goleman; group; https://doi; human; hypothesis; impact; importance; index; individual; intelligence; international; issues; j.d; journal; knowledge; lack; large; leadership; livesey; management; managers; march; mayer; members; method; model; nature; need; new; organizational; orientation; panel; paper; people; performance; personality; petrides; problems; project; project management; psychology; rankings; relationship; relevance; reporting; research; respondent; results; review; salovey; science; self; significant; skills; smyth; social; stakeholders; study; success; support; table; team; temporary; test; time; trait; trust; understanding; unique; use; validity; vol; wilcoxon; work; working
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          id: ajceb-5105
      author: Ke, Yongjian; Hao, Weiya; Ding, Huiping; Wang, Yingying
       title: Factors Influencing the Private Involvement in Urban Rail Public-Private Partnership Projects in China
        date: 2017-03-31
       words: 8105
      flesch: 42
     summary: In addition, the clear encouraging message from the central government since late 2013 caused another boom of private investment in public projects after 2014 (Cheng et al., 2016). Government incentives • Government fiscal commitment o Initial investment o Ongoing payment o Overall fiscal budget and balance • Public accountability o Requirements for overseeing PPPs o Requirements for public accountability • Efficiency considerations o Efficiency of public sector o Efficiency of private sector • Policy & regulations • Organisational marketing strategies Focus group meeting To ensure that the preliminary list of factors could be applicable to general urban rail projects in China rather than Beijing Metro Line 4 only, a focus group meeting was thereafter carried out on 12 September 2014 with the aim of validating the influencing factors.
    keywords: 2009; 2010; 2012; 2013; 2016; accountability; allocation; analysis; australia; beijing; building; case; chan; cheng; china; chinese; construction; contract; cost; development; economics; efficiency; engineering; et al; factors; finance; financial; financing; fiscal; focus; governance; government; group; hao; important; influencing; infrastructure; initial; international; investment; investors; involvement; journal; line; literature; liu; management; march; meeting; metro; model; operation; participants; partnership; party; policy; ppp; ppp project; ppps; private; private investment; private involvement; private partnership; private sector; project; public; public private; public sector; publications; rail; rail ppp; rail projects; regulations; research; responsibilities; review; risk; risk allocation; sector; share; study; subnational; total; transit; transportation; urban; urban rail; vol; wang; √ √
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          id: ajceb-5113
      author: Coggins, Jeremy; Teng, Bianca; Rameezdeen, Raufdeen
       title: Construction insolvency in Australia: reining in the beast
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 10139
      flesch: 35
     summary: Table 10: Respondents’ perception on need for government intervention Min Max MS1 SD2 CV3 How urgently government regulations should be introduced to reduce construction insolvency in South Australia 1.00 5.00 3.83 1.02 26.63 Notes: Based on total number of 42 responses; 1MS=Mean score where 5= Very high; 4=High; 3=Moderate; 2=Low; 1=Very low; 2SD= Standard deviation; 3CV=Coefficient of variation Table 11: Areas where government intervention is mostly needed Frequency Rank Underbidding 35 1 Poor payment practices 34 2 Poor financial management skills 31 3 Undercapitalized firms 28 4 Note: Based on total number of 42 responses Construction Economics and Building, 16(3), 38-56 Coggins, Teng and Rameezdeen 53 Discussion of results In accordance with the high incidence of construction insolvencies reported in recent times, the survey found that building contractor firms in South Australia firmly viewed that the construction industry is vulnerable to insolvency. Construction insolvency in Australia: reining in the beast, Construction Economics and Building, 16(3), 38-56.
    keywords: activity; address; analysis; australia; available; bank; building; building contractors; business; clauses; coefficient; coggins; collins; committee; companies; company; construction; construction economics; construction firms; construction industry; construction insolvency; contracting; contractors; contractual; credit; creditors; economics; factors; financial; firms; general; government; head; high; illegal; industry; industry security; insolvency; insolvency problem; legislation; low; management; mean; measures; monies; note; nsw; number; order; paper; payment; payment practices; performance; personal; phoenix; poor; poor payment; practices; principal; problem; project; questionnaire; rameezdeen; references; register; regulation; research; respect; respondents; responses; results; sample; scale; securities; security; senate; serc; significant; skills; small; south; subcontractors; suppliers; survey; table; tender; tendering; teng; threat; tier; total; trade; underbidding; use; vulnerability; works; years
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        item: #286 of 394
          id: ajceb-5158
      author: Hardie, Marie
       title: Vectors of technical innovation delivery by small and medium Australian construction firms
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 6016
      flesch: 44
     summary: End user or social focus While an economic focus is almost always present in construction innovations, some innovations find their primary motivation in improvements that are socially driven (Pemsel and Widén, 2010). From ideas to construction innovation: firms and universities collaborating.
    keywords: abs; activity; analysis; area; australian; available; brewer; building; business; capacity; case; change; client; cole; collected; company; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction innovation; construction management; content; contractor; creative; creativity; data; definition; delivery; doi; economics; employees; end; firms; focus; gajendran; generation; hardie; harty; high; industry; information; innovation; innovators; journal; large; literature; london; management; medium; motivation; national; nature; new; performance; problems; process; processes; products; project; research; resources; result; review; safety; sector; significant; site; small; sme; smes; social; studies; study; system; table; technical; technical innovation; technology; themes; university; user; vectors; work;  
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        item: #287 of 394
          id: ajceb-5159
      author: Hosseini, M. Reza; Banihashemi, Saeed; Chileshe, Nicholas; Namzadi, Mehran Oraee; Udaeja, Chika; Rameezdeen, Raufdeen; McCuen, Tammy
       title: BIM adoption within Australian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): an innovation diffusion model
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 8537
      flesch: 46
     summary: Low BIM adoption is seen as an issue in small businesses (Forsythe, 2014), yet available studies on BIM adoption have for the most part focused on large-sized companies and large-scale ambitious projects (Rodgers et al., 2015). Above all, the study goes beyond the existing body of the knowledge by offering a model for BIM adoption barriers for Australian SMEs inspired by information diffusion theory (IDT).
    keywords: adoption; analysis; australian; australian smes; banihashemi; barriers; benefits; bim; bim adoption; building; business; chain; chileshe; companies; construction; construction economics; construction industry; constructs; context; contractors; current; data; diffusion; doi; economics; engineering; et al; factors; figure; findings; firms; forgues; forsythe; french; hair; hosseini; implementation; indicators; industry; information; innovation; journal; knowledge; lack; large; level; loadings; management; mccuen; measurement; medium; model; modelling; namzadi; new; number; organisational; pls; poirier; present; process; project; questionnaire; rameezdeen; reliability; research; rodgers; sem; sized; small; smes; state; staub; structural; studies; study; supply; table; theoretical; udeaja; use; validity; values; variables; view
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        item: #288 of 394
          id: ajceb-5164
      author: Ishak, Siti Salwa Mohd; Newton, Sidney
       title: An innovation resistance factor model
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 9642
      flesch: 44
     summary: IRFM is shown to be an effective and appropriate model of user resistance factors. The most critical factors to influence technology resistance in the online project information management system (OPIMS) context are: support from leaders and peers, complexity of the technology, compatibility with key work practices; and pre-trial of the technology before it is actually deployed.
    keywords: acceptance; adoption; advantage; affiliates; analysis; anxiety; approach; building; change; characteristics; chin; coefficient; compatibility; complexity; construction; constructs; context; correlation; critical; data; davis; diamantopoulos; different; diffusion; disposition; doi; economics; efficacy; example; experience; factors; focus; formative; icts; implementation; indicators; individual; industry; influence; information; information technology; innovation; integrated; integration; interview; irfm; ishak; items; journal; key; knowledge; leaders; learning; level; management; manager; measurement; model; motivation; multicollinearity; network; new; newton; online; opims; overall; participants; particular; peers; people; personal; perspective; pls; potential; power; process; project; quantitative; research; resistance; results; rogers; sample; significant; social; software; stage; statistical; structural; study; support; survey; systems; tam; technologies; technology; terms; thematic; theoretical; theory; time; training; trialling; use; user; user resistance; value; variables; venkatesh; visibility; work
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        item: #289 of 394
          id: ajceb-5178
      author: Davis, Peter; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Vaughan, Josephine; Owi, Toinpre
       title: Assessing construction innovation: theoretical and practical perspectives
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 6354
      flesch: 31
     summary: Assessing construction innovation: theoretical and practical perspectives, Construction Economics and Building, 16(3), 104-115. ePress Assessing construction innovation: theoretical and practical perspectives Peter Davis, Thayaparan Gajendran, Josephine Vaughan and Toinpre Owi Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Australia Abstract Innovation is key for productivity improvement and advancements in different sectors of the economy, including the construction sector.
    keywords: 115; activities; aib; analysis; applications; australian; building; business; business innovation; changes; child; collaboration; construction; construction economics; construction firms; construction industry; construction innovation; construction management; cooperation; data; davis; development; difficult; doi; economics; engineering; environment; example; external; firms; gajendran; improvements; industry; information; innovation; internal; introduction; journal; knowledge; literature; management; manseau; market; models; narratives; nature; new; nodes; organizational; outcomes; owi; paper; parent; perspectives; practice; process; process innovation; processes; product; product innovation; project; research; safety; skills; slaughter; small; sources; specific; structure; supply; table; tatum; technological; technology; theoretical; value; vaughan; winch
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        item: #290 of 394
          id: ajceb-5180
      author: Brewer, Graham
       title: Book Review
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 797
      flesch: 34
     summary: Either way a business leader reading this book will come to have a clear understanding of the commonalities and differences between different innovation paradigms, their strengths and weaknesses, and their applicability at the level of the project team and the individual firm. ISBN: 978-1-118-65553-5 It can be argued in construction circles that innovation is the concept de jour: it is certainly the case for politicians and funders of research.
    keywords: book; brewer; building; business; construction; economics; graham; industry; innovation; leader; license; material; necessary; paradigms; research; review
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        item: #291 of 394
          id: ajceb-5181
      author: Brewer, Graham
       title: Guest Editorial
        date: 2016-09-08
       words: 1169
      flesch: 34
     summary: It therefore gives me pleasure to introduce four carefully crafted papers that analyse the nuances variously of barriers to innovation, enablers of innovation, vectors to innovation and the reflections of innovators themselves: Hosseini, Banihashemi, Chileshe, Namzadi, Udeaja, Rameezdeen and McCuen take a technology-specific (BIM) perspective of innovation adoption in SMEs. Hardie challenges the notion of SME innovation as merely the adoption of new processes and products, suggesting that small firm size is a positive benefit in terms of agility to the development of technology innovation.
    keywords: adoption; aec; brewer; building; business; construction; economics; editorial; firms; graham; guest; industry; innovation; material; papers; project; sector; smes; technology
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        item: #292 of 394
          id: ajceb-5184
      author: Aluko, Ralph Olusola; Adenuga, Olumide Afolarin; Kukoyi, Patricia Omega; Soyingbe, Aliu Adebayo; Oyedeji, Joseph Oyewale
       title: Predicting the academic success of architecture students by pre-enrolment requirement: using machine-learning techniques
        date: 2016-12-08
       words: 6731
      flesch: 40
     summary: In the present study, machine learning models were used to predict academic success of architecture students based on information provided in prior academic performance. This paper makes a modest contribution to the ongoing discussion on the relationship between prior academic performance and academic success of undergraduate students by evaluating this proposition.
    keywords: abisuga; academic; academic achievement; academic performance; academic success; achievement; adenuga; admission; aluko; analysis; applicants; architecture; architecture students; building; classification; construction; criteria; data; discriminant; doi; economics; education; engineering; entry; et al; factors; fail; grade; impact; independent; information; input; journal; kukoyi; learning; level; linear; literature; machine; mathematics; model; modelling; nearest; neighbour; numeric; oyedeji; performance; prediction; predictors; present; previous; prior; prior academic; process; programme; relationship; research; results; science; set; significant; soyingbe; students; studies; study; table; teaching; techniques; test; training; undergraduate; undergraduate architecture; undergraduate students; universities; university; variables; year
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        item: #293 of 394
          id: ajceb-5220
      author: Strahorn, Scott; Brewer, Graham; Gajendran, Thayaparan
       title: The Influence of Trust on Project Management Practice within the Construction Industry
        date: 2017-03-31
       words: 9300
      flesch: 28
     summary: Reoccurring themes and dimensions in this regard include; relationships, team work, collaboration, communication, culture, risk management, trust between parties, trust and trust based relationships, ability based trust, and mutual trust (Cheung et al., 2003; Ngowi, 2007; Rahman and Kumaraswamy, 2004; 2008; Rahman, Kumaraswamy and Ling, 2007). Hence, the importance of the attribution variables that influence trust are arguably more significant within a traditional procurement environment, as project individuals must actively and benevolently pursue positive outcomes in this regard.
    keywords: 2014; actions; alliance; analysis; apportionment; approach; attitudes; attribution; behaviour; benefits; brewer; building; cheung; collaboration; communication; comparison; consideration; construction; construction economics; construction project; context; contextual; contracting; contractual; control; developed; development; dimensions; economics; engineering; environment; eventual; evident; experiences; framework; fundamental; future; gad; gajendran; gajendran construction; https://doi; human; importance; individual; industry; influence; influential; integrity; interactions; international; issues; journal; kumaraswamy; levels; lived; m.m; management; march; mechanism; nature; need; negative; open; outcomes; participants; phenomenological; positive; potential; practitioners; principles; procurement; project; project management; project outcomes; rahman; regard; relational; relational procurement; relationships; repair; research; respective; review; risk; setting; shane; significant; specifics; stakeholder; strahorn; strong; study; success; team; terms; themes; traditional; transactional; trust; trust building; university; variables; vol
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        item: #294 of 394
          id: ajceb-5289
      author: Grey, Janet
       title: Book Review - Understanding Construction Law
        date: 2016-12-08
       words: 1073
      flesch: 47
     summary: Phil Evans writes Chapter 5, which covers the detail of construction contracts, including the initiating process of tendering and the dark art of collusive tendering. Chapter 3 is on contract law, which is a pleasure to read as it so clearly sets out the elements of a contract and how one might be discharged.
    keywords: 2016; architects; book; building; case; chapter; construction; contract; dispute; economics; form; grey; janet; law; legal; nsw; review; standard; terms; work
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        item: #295 of 394
          id: ajceb-5344
      author: Afolabi, Adedeji Olushola; Tunji-Olayeni, Patience Fikiemo; Oyeyipo, Opeyemi Olanrewaju; Ojelabi, Rapheal Abiodun
       title: The Socio-Economics of Women Inclusion in Green Construction
        date: 2017-03-31
       words: 8177
      flesch: 42
     summary: The study may have been limited in the number of variables selected in the areas of green construction participation and the barriers to women’s inclusion. The study intends to proffer answers to the following pertinent research questions; • In what ways do women participate in green construction? • What are the barriers to women’s inclusion in green construction? • What socio-economic benefits can be derived from women’s inclusion in green construction? Women participation in the construction industry Even though it has been adjudged that women have potentials that are necessary for national and global impact, Anugwom (2009) and Ezegbe and Akubue (2012) reported that women are still been denied basic rights.
    keywords: adeyemi; afolabi; analysis; areas; available; background; bagilhole; barriers; benefits; building; career; change; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction professionals; countries; dainty; development; diversity; economics; economy; education; emissions; energy; engineering; environment; equality; factor; family; female; friendly; gender; green construction; green economy; green energy; green jobs; groups; growth; gurjao; ilo; inclusion; increase; installation; institute; interest; international; issues; jobs; journal; labour; level; low; maintenance; management; manufacturing; march; market; nature; nigeria; ojelabi construction; olayeni; oyeyipo; participation; population; powell; practices; professionals; reduction; research; respondents; roles; sector; significant; skills; social; socio; state; stressful; study; sustainable; table; total; tunji; use; variance; vol; waste; women; women inclusion; work; world
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        item: #296 of 394
          id: ajceb-5482
      author: Ahmadi, Navid; Shahandashti, Mohsen
       title: Comparative empirical analysis of temporal relationships between construction investment and economic growth in the United States
        date: 2017-09-21
       words: 10432
      flesch: 65
     summary: We did not find enough evidence showing any relationships between the Value Added by Construction industry and state GDP in other states. A comparison between the results of this study and the table of construction as a percentage of GDP shows that the hypothesis of an existing relationship between the “share of construction in state GDP” and the “impact of construction industry on state GDP” in all U.S. states would be rejected.
    keywords: adf; ahmadi; analysis; building; causality; causes; columbia; construction; construction economics; construction industry; cva; data; development; district; economic; economic growth; economy; gdp; granger; growth; hypothesis; impact; indicator; industry; infrastructure; investment; lag; level; long; montana; new; real; relationship; research; results; sector; september; series; shahandashti; shahandashti construction; share; state gdp; states; stationary; statistics; study; table; temporal; term; test; time; u.s; value; vol
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        item: #297 of 394
          id: ajceb-5520
      author: Rosa, Jasmin E.; Hon, Carol K.H.; Xia, Bo; Lamari, Fiona
       title: Challenges, success factors and strategies for women’s career development in the Australian construction industry
        date: 2017-09-21
       words: 8987
      flesch: 45
     summary: One of the studies conducted to date that focuses on women career challenges in Australia, is a discussion paper issued by the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC). H at ip ka ra su lu a n d R of f (2 01 1) E n gl is h a n d L e Je u n e (2 01 2) N A W IC ( 20 13 ) Sexist attitudes, behaviours, and perceptions √ √ √ √ Long working hours √ √ Competition in staff √ Autonomy √ Isolation on job sites √ Negative perceptions of women capabilities √ √ √ √ Small representation on job sites √ Expectation of mimicking males aggressive behaviour habits √ √ Lack of role models/ mentors unfair assessment of training needs √ √ √ √ √ Family/work life balance √ √ √ √ Limiting Slow career progression / low potential for career advancement √ √ √ √ Stress √ Undervalued √ Institutionalized Discrimination (glass ceiling) √ Rosa, Hon, Xia & Lamari Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 17, No. 3 September 201730 that these barriers seem to be universally experienced among women who have families or have the intention of starting a family, regardless of the job role or profession (Moore, 2006).
    keywords: amaratunga; australian; australian construction; balance; building; career; career development; career success; challenges; construction; construction career; construction economics; construction industry; data; determination; development; different; difficult; diverse; early; economics; engineering; experience; factors; family; female; findings; gender; goals; government; haigh; hon; hours; industry; interviewee; journal; junior; lack; lamari; lamari construction; level; life; limited; literature; long; male; management; mean; mentor; model; moore; nawic; negative; networking; occupation; perceptions; personal; professional; quantity; research; respondents; role; rosa; self; september; significant; strategies; stress; studies; study; success; success factors; support; survey; table; time; vol; women; work; working; xia; years; √ √
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          id: ajceb-5544
      author: Liang, Lingfeng; Hu, Xiancun; Tivendale, Linda; Liu, Chunlu
       title: The log mean divisia index based carbon productivity in the Australian construction industry
        date: 2017-09-21
       words: 7386
      flesch: 53
     summary: Meng, Liu and Gao (2014) showed that energy consumption is an important influence on carbon productivity change. Sources of carbon productivity change: A decomposition and disaggregation analysis based on global Luenberger productivity indicator and endogenous directional distance function.
    keywords: adjustment; analysis; australian; australian construction; building; carbon; carbon emissions; carbon intensity; carbon productivity; changes; china; construction; construction economics; construction industry; consumption; decomposition; development; divisia; economics; emissions; energy; environmental; factors; i=1; index; indicators; industrial; industry; influence; intensity; journal; liang; liu; liu construction; lmdi; mean; method; negative; nsw; performance; positive; production; productivity; qld; regional; research; sector; september; study; table; tas; tivendale; total; value; vic; vol; x+1
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        item: #299 of 394
          id: ajceb-5546
      author: Singh, Manav Mahan; Sawhney, Anil; Sharma, Vaishnavi
       title: Utilising Building Component Data from BIM for Formwork Planning
        date: 2017-12-07
       words: 7155
      flesch: 41
     summary: API tools can be used to interact with BIM elements and access information associated with them (Autodesk Inc., 2014b). This similar approach can be extended to generate BIM elements after performing a calculation on the BIM input.
    keywords: activities; analysis; api; application; approach; associated; authoring; autodesk; automation; available; bim; bim data; borrmann; building; calculation; capabilities; cast; cheng; component; concrete; construction; construction economics; coordination; data; database; december; decision; design; development; dimensional; eastman; economics; efforts; elements; energy; engineering; environment; figure; formwork; formwork design; formwork elements; formwork planning; framework; generated; height; https://doi.org/10.1016/j; industry; information; input; instance; international; journal; kim; lee; making; management; model; modelling; new; number; object; parameters; parametric; planning; process; programme; quantity; research; rods; sacks; sawhney; schedules; semantic; singh; site; situ; spacing; structural; studs; system; tasks; technology; tools; use; user; visualisation; vol; wales; wall
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          id: ajceb-5596
      author: Durdyev, Serdar; Mohamed, Sherif; Lay, Meng Leang; Ismail, Syuhaida
       title: Key Factors Affecting Construction Safety Performance in Developing Countries: Evidence from Cambodia
        date: 2017-12-07
       words: 7966
      flesch: 40
     summary: The questionnaires were administered to the frontline stakeholders responsible for construction safety performance at various levels in construction firms that operated mainly in Phnom Penh city, as well as authorities at the MLMUPC, which is responsible for construction safety in Cambodia. 48 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v17i4.5596 http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v17i4.5596 http://ajceb.epress.lib.uts.edu.au http://ajceb.epress.lib.uts.edu.au mailto:durdyevs@ara.ac.nz http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v17i4.5596 Keywords Safety performance; OSH; construction site; Cambodia; construction safety.
    keywords: abdul; activities; alpha; analysis; authorities; available; awareness; bartlett; bawazeer; building; cambodia; cambodia construction; conditions; construction; construction economics; construction engineering; construction industry; construction projects; construction safety; construction site; contractors; cosmetic; countries; cronbach; data; december; deng; durdyev; economics; engineering; environment; equipment; evidence; factors; health; industry; influence; international; ismail; items; journal; key; key factors; labour; lack; level; literature; low; management; managers; measures; method; model; mohamed; online; onsite; operations; organisation; personal; poor; poor construction; principal; principal factors; project; protective; questionnaire; rashid; related; relevant; research; residential; resources; respondents; results; safety; safety factors; safety items; safety management; safety performance; significant; site; spss; stakeholders; standards; studies; study; survey; table; tam; test; training; variables; variance; vol; weather; workers; workforce; zeng
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          id: ajceb-5604
      author: Kissi, Ernest; Adjei-Kumi, Theophilus; Amoah, Peter; Gyimah, Jerry
       title: Forecasting Construction Tender Price Index in Ghana using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average with Exogenous Variables Model
        date: 2018-03-28
       words: 5871
      flesch: 45
     summary: In building ARIMAX model, time-series model techniques must be used involving two phases (see Figure 1: Processes for ARIMAX model development). ARIMAX model provides flexibility in model building with time series data as it can be simply reduced to ARIMA model if historical behavior is to be examine by making projections through employing only statistically identified historical relationships.
    keywords: ability; addition; adjei; akintoye; analysis; approach; arimax; arimax model; autoregressive; average; building; ccpi; construction; construction economics; construction tender; data; economics; error; et al; exogenous; forecasting; ghana; https://doi; hypothesis; independent; index; indicators; indices; industry; influence; integrated; kissi; leading; management; march; mean; model; model construction; modelling; movement; moving; order; prediction; price; price index; project; regression; research; results; sample; series; skitmore; stationary; statistical; studies; study; table; tender; tender price; test; time; tpi; use; value; variables; vol; wong
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          id: ajceb-5663
      author: Dosumu, Oluwaseun Sunday
       title: Perceived Effects of Prevalent Errors in Contract Documents on Construction Projects
        date: 2018-03-28
       words: 11868
      flesch: 44
     summary: Moreover, a study of prevalent errors in contract documents is extremely important, not only to complement the few existing studies in the area but also to determine its severe effects on construction projects. The consultants opined that structural collapse (3.73), deterioration of building (3.72), reduced productivity (3.61), claims by contractors (3.60) and frequent design changes/variation (3.54) are the severe effects of prevalent errors in contract documents on building projects.
    keywords: accept; architectural; bill; building; building projects; case; causes; classification; classified; collapse; conflicting; construction; construction contract; construction documents; construction economics; construction projects; consultants; consulting; contract documents; contracting; contractors; cost; countries; data; description; design; design errors; difference; dimensional; dimensional errors; dosumu; dosumu construction; drawings; economics; effects; electrical; engineering; errors; firms; frequency; ho errors; human; industry; information; international; items; journal; list; love; management; march; measurement; method; mohammed; nigeria; omission; organizations; performance; prevalence; prevalent errors; prevalent types; private; problem; procurement; projects; public; quality; quantities; quantity; questionnaire; religious; research; respondents; result; sample; sampling; sector; sector projects; severe; specifications; states; structural; studies; study; study projects; table; test; time; total; traditional; types; use; violation; vol; wrong
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          id: ajceb-5704
      author: Lafuente, Esteban; Strassburger, Felipe; Vaillant, Yancy; Vilajosana, Jordi
       title: Organizational Resilience and Performance: An Analysis of the Relevance of Suppliers’ Trade Credit and Bank Diversification in the Spanish Construction Industry
        date: 2017-12-07
       words: 9063
      flesch: 43
     summary: Additionally, the proposed estimation approach allows evaluating the effect of relevant time-invariant factors on business performance (in our case, the number of financial institutions used by construction businesses). The analysis of how construction businesses use suppliers’ trade credit as a source of financial recourses and how this strategy impacts their performance level has been largely sidelined in prior research.
    keywords: 2017; access; analysis; appendini; assets; average; bank; bubble; building; burst; businesses; capital; case; commercial; community; construction; construction businesses; construction economics; construction industry; construction sector; credit; crisis; crisis period; customers; cuñat; data; debt; december; different; diversification; economic; economic performance; effect; figure; finance; financial; financial institutions; firms; garcia; garriga; growth; high; housing; industry; institutions; journal; lafuente; level; liquidity; management; model; montoriol; number; organizational; payment; performance; period; positive; relationship; relevance; resilience; resources; results; roa; role; sample; sector; short; source; spain; spanish; spanish construction; strassburger; strategy; study; sufi; suppliers; supply; table; term; time; total; trade; trade credit; use; vaillant; value; variables; vilajosana; vol
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          id: ajceb-5746
      author: Kassem, Mohamad
       title: Claims, Disputes and Litigation Involving BIM
        date: 2017-09-21
       words: 1457
      flesch: 37
     summary: This discussion is undoubtedly beneficial for both (1) policy makers who are responsible for developing BIM guidelines and standards, and (2) practitioners who are interested in understanding the legal aspects surrounding BIM use in their projects. However, credit should be given to the author for embarking on such a discussion whose challenges are inherent in the process of developing BIM guidelines and standards.
    keywords: analysis; approach; article; author; bim; book; building; care; case; claims; construction; data; disputes; economics; guidelines; http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v17i3.5746; interest; kassem; legal; litigation; model; review; standards; university
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          id: ajceb-5762
      author: Larsen, Jesper Kranker; Lindhard, Søren Munch; Brunoe, Thomas Ditlev; Jensen, Kim Noergaard
       title: The Relation between Pre-planning, Commissioning and Enhanced Project Performance
        date: 2018-06-27
       words: 6078
      flesch: 42
     summary: Evaluating the quality of project planning: A model and field results. *Corresponding author: Jesper Kranker Larsen, Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark; Jkl@m-tech.aau.dk DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v18i2.5762 Article History: Received 26/09/2017; Revised 24/03/2018 & 19/05/2018; Accepted 26/05/2018; Published 27/06/2018 Abstract Pre-planning of construction projects is important for the performance of cost, time, and quality.
    keywords: aalborg; agency; approach; ashrae; brunoe; budget; building; case; commissioning; commissioning process; complications; construction; construction economics; contractor; cost; data; deadline; design; economics; end; engineering; enhanced; final; focus; forecasted; globerson; hvac; important; improved; international; interviews; jensen; journal; june; larsen; level; lindhard; management; mcfarlane; mean; meetings; model; organizational; owner; performance; phase; planning; pre; proactive; problems; process; processes; project; project management; project performance; project success; qualitative; quality; relation; requirements; research; satisfaction; shimizu; studies; study; success; successful; support; systems; table; team; technical; testing; time; turnkey; user; vol; zwikael
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          id: ajceb-5771
      author: Ibem, Eziyi Offia; Onyemaechi, Paschal C; yo-Vaughan, Emmanuel A.
       title: Project Selection and Transparency Factors in Housing Public-Private Partnerships in Nigeria
        date: 2018-06-27
       words: 11295
      flesch: 41
     summary: However, there is a paucity of empirical studies on the specific factors considered at the initiation, and measures taken to ensure transparency at the procurement stages, of PPP housing projects. This study examined project selection factors and transparency measures in PPP housing projects using data sourced from oral interviews with 27 experts in nine PPP housing schemes in Nigeria.
    keywords: aduwo; advertisement; analysis; appendix; arrangement; availability; available; ayo; aziz; best; bidding; bidding process; building; capacity; challenges; communities; competent; competitive; competitive bidding; construction; construction economics; corruption; cost; countries; critical; delivery; developer; development; economics; estate; factors; feasibility; funding; government; habitat; host; houses; housing; housing projects; housing units; ibem; identification; impact; implementation; income; information; infrastructure; international; issues; journal; june; key; land; literature; location; low; management; marketability; measures; nigeria; nigeria construction; onyemaechi; open; operators; opportunities; partners; ppp; ppp housing; ppp projects; ppps; private; private partnerships; private sector; process; procurement; profit; project; project selection; provision; psp; public; public private; public sector; question; research; respondents; role; sector; sector partners; selection; stage; studies; study; success; table; tender; transparency; transparency factors; units; urban; vaughan; vol
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          id: ajceb-5780
      author: Afolabi, Adedeji Olushola; Oluwatayo, Adedapo; Oyeyipo, Opeyemi; Ojelabi, Rapheal; Fagbenle, Olabosipo
       title: Assessment of Designers’ Perception of Post Conflict Housing Schemes for Internally Displaced Persons
        date: 2018-03-28
       words: 9480
      flesch: 45
     summary: The study aims to assess designers’ assessment of post conflict housing schemes (PCHS) for internally displaced persons. The study intends to assess designers’ perception of post-conflict housing schemes (PCHS) for internally displaced persons (IDPs) which is crucial to support a peaceful transition from conflict by asking the following pertinent research questions; • What features do designers consider critical in design of post conflict housing scheme (PCHS) for internally displaced persons and what factors influence these designs? • Do designers differ on the threats and enablers to the actualization of post conflict housing schemes (PCHS) for internally displaced persons?
    keywords: adequate; afolabi; aid; analysis; assessment; assistance; building; building materials; choice; component; conflict housing; construction; construction economics; cost; critical; critical features; cultural; demands; design; designers; development; disaster; disaster housing; displacement; durable; economics; effective; enablers; experience; external; factors; fagbenle; features; field; figure; framework; funds; future; government; groups; high; household; housing; housing reconstruction; housing schemes; idps; influence; internal; international; long; maintenance; management; march; mass; materials; monitoring; needs; ngos; nigeria; non; ojelabi; olushola; oluwatayo; oyeyipo; participation; pchs; pdhu; perception; persons; persons construction; poor; population; post; post conflict; post disaster; process; professionals; projects; region; report; research; risk; section; security; selection; services; significant; socio; solutions; source; space; studies; study; survey; sustainable; table; temporary; term; threats; total; university; vol
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          id: ajceb-5793
      author: Oo, Bee Lan
       title: Release of Construction Clients’ Pre-tender Cost Estimates: An Experimental Study
        date: 2017-12-07
       words: 5795
      flesch: 45
     summary: Turning into bidding feedback information in construction sealed bid auctions, clients have opted for different information feedback conditions in sequential auctions that are of different levels of competition and projects to bid on. On the external validity of construction bidding experiment.
    keywords: access; analysis; auction; average; behaviour; bidders; bidding; bids; building; clients; construction; construction bidding; construction economics; cost; cost estimates; cqsce; data; december; different; ece; economics; estimates; evidence; experimental; feedback; field; findings; group; information; lower; management; milgrom; pre; procurement; project; provision; public; relative; release; research; results; silva; skitmore; student; study; subjects; support; tender; tender cost; test; theory; treatment; value; vol; weber; winning
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        item: #309 of 394
          id: ajceb-5842
      author: Paz, Juan Camilo; Rozenboim, David; Cuadros, Álvaro; Cano, Sandra; Escobar, John
       title: A Simulation-Based Scheduling Methodology for Construction Projects Considering the Potential Impacts of Delay Risks
        date: 2018-06-27
       words: 13380
      flesch: 47
     summary: Zhang and Chu (2011) proposed approaches that consider the judgment involved with risk factors using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), or the fuzzy failure mode and the effects analysis for project risks. Project risk management using the project risk FMEA.
    keywords: activities; activity; analysis; application; approach; based; building; cano; carlo; case; changes; colombia; completion; considered; construction; construction economics; construction management; construction projects; context; cost; cpm; critical; cuadros; data; date; days; definition; delay; delay risks; detection; deterministic; diagram; different; distribution; duration; effect; effective; engineering; environment; escobar; escobar construction; evaluation; example; execution; experts; factors; figure; forecast; identification; impact; importance; influence; information; input; international; journal; june; level; literature; management; mathematical; maximum; mcs; methodology; methods; model; monte; network; new; occurrence; paper; path; paz; potential; probability; process; project; project management; project risk; project scheduling; proposed; quantitative; random; real; relations; research; results; review; risk analysis; risk factors; risk management; risks; rozenboim; sbsm; schedule; schedule risks; scheduling; scheduling methodology; simulation; step; structure; study; table; techniques; time; tools; tornado; total; uncertainty; use; values; variable; vol; way; work; ökmen; öztaş;  
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          id: ajceb-5872
      author: Tawalare, Abhay Gopalrao; Laishram, Boeing
       title: Relational Contracting Conceptual Model for Public Sector Construction Organisations: An Indian Context
        date: 2018-06-27
       words: 9340
      flesch: 38
     summary: Je ff er ie s, B re w er a n d G aj en d ra n ( 20 14 ) Mutual goals and objectives √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Trust √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Continuous evaluation √ √ √ √ Open communication √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Conflict resolution √ √ √ √ √ √ Early involvement of contractor √ √ √ √ Education/ training/ learning climate √ √ √ √ √ Innovation √ √ √ Long term commitment √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Integrated team √ √ √ √ √ √ √ Partnering experience √ Effective coordination √ √ √ Continuous improvement √ √ √ √ Adequate resources √ √ √ √ Partner selection √ √ Research Method This study has adopted qualitative research as its most preferred approach due to the descriptive nature of research questions and research objectives (Fellows and Liu, 2008). √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ SA Stakeholder analysis: Stakeholder analysis identifies stakeholder’s knowledge, attitudes within context of change and convinces for new functional roles.
    keywords: + +; alignment; analysis; approach; building; change; change management; commitment; communication; conceptual; conceptual model; consensus; construction; construction economics; construction engineering; construction industry; construction management; construction organisations; context; context construction; contracting; contractor; data; decision; development; economics; effective; employees; engineering; execution; experts; factors; fernandez; focus; framework; goals; government; implementation; improvement; indian; indian construction; industry; information; innovation; international; interviews; jha; joint; journal; june; key; kumaraswamy; laishram; level; literature; m.m; making; management; managers; mechanism; meetings; model; need; new; open; organisational change; organisations; organizational; parties; partnering; performance; plan; planned; processes; project; project management; public; public sector; purpose; rahman; relational; relational contracting; relationship; research; resolution; resources; review; risk; role; sector; sector change; sector construction; sector organisations; site; specific; stakeholder; strategies; strategy; study; success; successful; support; table; tawalare; team; time; traditional; training; transformation; trust; vision; vol; work; √ √
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          id: ajceb-5882
      author: Okoye, Peter Uchenna
       title: Occupational Health and Safety Risk Levels of Building Construction Trades in Nigeria
        date: 2018-06-27
       words: 8372
      flesch: 49
     summary: Summary of the result of risk analysis on common building trades Building Trade PRO SRI R Risk Level Rank Carpentry (including formwork and roofing) 3.8 3.6 13.7 High 1 Masonry (block laying, brick laying, concreting and plastering) 3.5 3.7 13.0 High 2 Iron bending and steel fixing 3.5 3.5 12.3 High 3 Tilling (including terrazzo and marble laying) 3.4 3.3 11.2 Medium 4 Painting 3.1 2.9 9.0 Medium 5 Electrical fitting and Installation 2.7 2.5 6.8 Medium 6 Plumbing 2.6 2.3 6.0 Medium 7 Occupational Health and Safety Risk Levels of Building Construction Trades in Nigeria Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 18, No. 2, June 201899 carpentry (including formwork and roofing), masonry (block laying, brick laying, concreting and plastering) and iron bending and steel fixing are high risk level building trades, whereas, tilling (including terrazzo and marble laying), painting, electrical fitting and installation and plumbing are medium risk level building trades. However, safety risk in construction cannot be effectively managed without first identifying the risk factors associated with different trades in construction.
    keywords: accidents; activities; analysis; assessment; associated; average; bending; block; brick; building; building construction; building trades; carpentry; common; common building; concreting; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction sites; construction trades; construction workers; control; different; economics; engineering; exposure; factors; falls; fixing; formwork; frequency; frequent; handling; hazards; health; high; impact; industry; injuries; injury; international; iron; journal; june; laying; level; low; management; manual; masonry; medium; moderate; nigeria; nigeria construction; number; occasional; occupational; occupational health; occurrence; okoye; plastering; probability; projects; rating; research; respondents; result; risk; risk assessment; risk building; risk factors; risk impact; risk level; risk management; risk occurrence; roofing; safety; safety risk; scale; severity; sites; sri; state; steel; studies; study; survey; table; trades; vol; workers; working; workplace
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          id: ajceb-5885
      author: Mba, Marie Francoise Bekale; Agumba, Justus Ngala
       title: Critical success factors influencing performance outcome of joint venture construction projects in South Africa: Comparison of first and second order models
        date: 2018-09-21
       words: 9234
      flesch: 45
     summary: Furthermore, the general definition and theory of project success outcomes in JV construction project therefore constitutes two (2) factors of success, i.e. project objective and organisation objective. The achievement of project objectives is a significant measure of JV project performance outcome as it indicates the highest component variance in project performance compared with attainment of Critical success factors influencing performance outcome of joint venture construction projects in South Africa Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 201889 company objectives.
    keywords: achievement; adnan; adnan et; africa; agreement; agumba; analysis; attainment; beta; building; commitment; communication; company; component; comprehensive; construction; construction economics; construction management; construction projects; contract; contractual; control; critical; csfs; economics; effective; empirical; et al; experience; factor; fair; govindan; hong; hyun; implementation; influence; inter; international; joint; journal; jv partners; jv projects; jvs; management; management control; manitshana; members; model; mutual; objectives; operation; order; order factor; outcome; participants; partners; pca; performance; performance outcome; project; project objectives; project performance; project success; research; resources; respondents; results; second; second order; september; significant; south; study; success; success factors; success outcome; table; total; trust; understanding; university; variables; variance; venture; vol
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          id: ajceb-5899
      author: Utama, Wahyudi P; Chan, Albert PC; Zahoor, Hafiz; Gao, Ran; Peli, Martalius
       title: Exploring the Strategic Motivation of Internationalisation: Indonesian Contractors’ Perspectives
        date: 2018-12-12
       words: 9196
      flesch: 45
     summary: To clarify this issue, interviewees were asked about how and what size of Indonesian domestic market and what its effect on companies’ desire for seeking cross national projects. This fact implies that Indonesian contractors are still fully relying on demand at home country market, while foreign markets are not their main concern nowadays.
    keywords: abdul; advantage; agreement; analysis; asean; awil; aziz; benefit; bridge; building; business; chan; coefficient; companies; company; competitive; construction; construction economics; contractors; countries; country; data; december; department; directors; domestic; economics; engineering; enterprises; expansion; experience; factors; firms; foreign; gao; globalization; government; group; growth; home; host; important; increase; indonesian; indonesian contractors; industry; international; internationalisation; interviewee; invitation; journal; k r; karya; large; leste; level; malaysia; management; market; middle; motivations; motives; n t; neighboring; number; ocps; operation; overseas; peli; perspectives; profile; profitability; projects; questionnaire; r ii; ranking; reasons; research; respondents; results; rii; risk; scale; significant; size; small; sponsor; strategic; studies; study; support; survey; table; term; timor; use; utama; vol; work; years; zahoor
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          id: ajceb-5973
      author: Loganathan, Santhosh; Forsythe, Perry; Kalidindi, Satyanarayana N
       title: Work practices of onsite construction crews and their influence on productivity
        date: 2018-09-21
       words: 10312
      flesch: 46
     summary: However, there is little research into the nature of crew work practices. Also, there is little research into the nature of crew work practices.
    keywords: activities; activity; adding; analysis; apc; approach; availability; average; ballard; bending; bitar; broad; building; case; clp; cohesion; communication; construction; construction crews; construction economics; construction management; content; coordination; crew; crew members; crew productivity; crew work; critical; cutting; cycles; dai; data; day; different; duplication; economics; engineering; et al; execution; external; factors; figure; findings; flow; foreman; formation; forsythe; group; hand; high; higher; hpc; hughes; human; individual; industry; influence; internal; interviews; involved; issues; jarkas; journal; kalidindi; key; labour; leadership; leading; lean; literature; loganathan; main; management; management practices; materials; members; methods; naoum; non; observations; onsite; onsite construction; overall; performance; practices; process; production; productivity; productivity construction; project; rebar; related; reliability; research; september; stability; strategy; studies; study; sub; sudhakumar; table; tasks; team; technology; themes; thomas; thorpe; time; total; trade; unit; value; vol; work; work practices; workers; years
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          id: ajceb-5979
      author: Runeson, Göran
       title: Research Methods: A Practical Guide for Students and Researchers
        date: 2018-03-28
       words: 705
      flesch: 44
     summary: Any respectable university library would have several shelf metres of books that specialise in one or a few aspects of research methods and the thought of condensing all that into a single, practical volume is strictly for masochists. 228 pages Göran Runeson School of Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Corresponding author: Göran Runeson, Adjunct Professor, School of Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway NSW Australia; Karl.Runeson@uts.edu.au DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v18i1.5979 Article History: Received 11/01/2018; Revised 30/01/2018; Accepted 05/02/2018; Published 28/03/2018 In the preface, Professor Tan sets himself an enormous challenge when he declares that the aim of the book is to “provide a concise, practical, and reasonably comprehensive guide on research methods.
    keywords: analysis; article; book; building; guide; methods; postgraduate; practical; research; researchers; runeson; students
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          id: ajceb-5994
      author: Nadhim, Evan Alaa; Hon, Carol K.H.; Xia, Bo; Stewart, Ian; Fang, Dongping
       title: Investigating the Relationships between Safety Climate and Safety Performance Indicators in Retrofitting Works
        date: 2018-06-27
       words: 9135
      flesch: 46
     summary: (7) Safety communication, learning, and trust in co-worker safety competence (F6) 4.21 (0.64) 0.90 (7) 4.16 (0.47) 0.85 (8) Workers’ trust in the efficacy of safety systems (F7) 4.20 (0.70) 0.82 (4) 4.43 (0.48) 0.85 (7) Overall 3.98 (0.92) 0.94(31) 4.12(0.51) 0.88(50) Safety climate factors have reasonable mean scores showing that safety climate influenced safety performance. It is influenced by a variety of underlying organizational factors such as safety behaviour, safety climate and safety culture (Hon, Chan and Yam, 2014; Reason, 1995).
    keywords: accidents; addition; alcohol; analysis; applied; australia; behaviour; building; chan; climate factors; construction; construction economics; current; data; economics; energy; engineering; environment; factors; fang; griffin; health; hon; https://doi; indicators; industry; injuries; items; journal; june; kines; latent; level; limited; literature; management; management safety; mean; measurement; method; model; nadhim; neal; nosacq-50; number; occupational; occupational safety; participants; perceptions; performance indicators; pls; positive; priority; procedures; projects; psychology; queensland; questionnaire; questions; relationship; research; respondents; retrofitting; retrofitting works; risk; safety; safety behaviour; safety climate; safety compliance; safety participation; safety performance; safety science; science; scores; sector; sem; significant; small; stewart; structural; studies; study; survey; table; total; validity; values; variables; variance; vol; workers; workplace; works; works construction; xia; yam; zohar
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        item: #317 of 394
          id: ajceb-6000
      author: Amuda-Yusuf, Ganiyu
       title: Critical Success Factors for Building Information Modelling Implementation
        date: 2018-09-21
       words: 7438
      flesch: 44
     summary: Kori & Kiviniemi (2015) examined the prospect of BIM adoption in Nigerian construction industry by focusing primarily on the Architectural practices in four major cities in Nigeria and found that most of the medium and large-scale firms are significantly catching up towards the BIM practice and that the level of technological workforce toward BIM and digital technology of large Architectural firms was found appreciable. (Ugwu & Kumaraswamy, 2007); (Arayici, et al., 2012) Stakeholders involvement Stakeholders include: Client, Consultants, Contractors, Other participants in the supply chain that can be affected by BIM adoption (Ugwu & Kumaraswamy, 2007) Education and training Education and training of industry practitioners and organization staff is one of the critical success factors for the successful BIM implementation.
    keywords: adoption; amuda; analysis; appropriate; bim; bim adoption; bim implementation; building; change; clear; communication; company; component; construction; construction economics; construction industry; cost; critical; critical success; csfs; data; design; development; economics; education; enablers; end; et al; factors; firms; implementation; implementation construction; important; industry; information; involvement; items; key; kumaraswamy; large; level; management; mean; modelling; morlhon; new; nigeria; practitioners; process; project; questionnaire; research; respondents; results; significant; software; stakeholders; standard; step; studies; study; success; success factors; successful; support; table; team; technology; training; turnover; ugwu; understanding; use; user; vol; yusuf
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        item: #318 of 394
          id: ajceb-6031
      author: Yusof, Nor'Aini; Mohd Ishak, Siti Salwa; Doheim, Rahma
       title: Identifying factors for incorporating spatial data into BIM using the Delphi method
        date: 2018-10-02
       words: 7792
      flesch: 49
     summary: The findings highlight the requirements for utilising spatial data in BIM at the preconstruction planning stage and help the respective professional bodies to identify the prerequisites for BIM application and subsequently, improve the existing training for the professional development of their members. In other words, there is a lack of research on BIM application at the preconstruction planning stage and on the incorporation of spatial data into BIM.
    keywords: 2015; 2016; 2017; adoption; agreement; application; bim; bim application; building; client; commitment; consensus; consolidated; construction; construction economics; construction industry; consultants; countries; data; data management; delphi; delphi method; demand; design; development; doheim; economics; engineering; et al; experience; experts; factors; figure; findings; firms; framework; gis; government; important; inclusion; industry; information; innovation; integration; interview; ishak; journal; knowledge; land; legal; lifecycle; malaysia; management; method; modeling; new; planning; players; process; project; property; regulations; research; round; september; site; skilled; spatial data; staff; stage; studies; study; successful; support; surveying; technology; time; value; variables; vol; yes; yusof
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        item: #319 of 394
          id: ajceb-6041
      author: Aiyetan, Olatunji Ayodeji; Dillip, Das
       title: System Dynamics Approach to Mitigating Skilled Labour Shortages in the Construction Industry: A South Africa Context
        date: 2018-12-12
       words: 7747
      flesch: 43
     summary: FACTORS CAUSING SKILLED LABOUR SHORTAGES The factors contributing to skilled labour shortages are presented in Table 1. EFFECTS OF SKILLED LABOUR SHORTAGES ON THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Table 2 presents the effects of skilled labour shortages on the construction industry in the EasternCape Province of South Africa.
    keywords: africa; aiyetan; approach; attrition; auxiliary; availability; building; cape; causal; causes; challenges; clds; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction projects; context; cost; current; data; december; delay; delivery; developed; development; diagram; dillip; dynamics; eastern; economics; effects; engineering; environment; experience; factors; feedback; figure; flow; government; health; higher; important; index; industry; influence; international; investment; journal; labour; labour shortages; labourers; lack; management; model; modelling; perspective; policy; poor; productivity; project; province; quality; rate; reduction; research; respondents; responses; rework; safety; shortages; situation; skilled; skilled labour; skills; south; stock; strategies; study; survey; system; system dynamics; table; talent; training; variables; vol; wages; work; ×××
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        item: #320 of 394
          id: ajceb-6139
      author: Livesey, Peter Vincent; Runeson, Goran
       title: Autoethnography and Theory Testing
        date: 2018-09-21
       words: 5904
      flesch: 44
     summary: peter.livesey@uts.edu.au DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v18i3.6139 Article history: Received 17/06/2017; Revised 21/07/2018; Accepted 19/09/2018; Published 03/10/2018 Abstract One of the problems in construction management research is how to harvest the living experience of people working in the profession. [The answer is, ] You have a set of theoretical and methodological tools and research literature to use.
    keywords: analytical; anderson; approach; autoethnography; awareness; boyatzis; building; competencies; construction; contemporary; data; delphi; denzin; different; economics; ellis; emotional; event; experience; framework; goleman; group; impact; involved; issues; journal; large; literature; livesey; management; members; method; model; narrative; personal; problems; project; qualitative; ranking; research; researchers; results; review; runsen; self; september; social; stakeholders; story; study; style; table; team; testing; theoretical; theory; understanding; use; verification; vol; work
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        item: #321 of 394
          id: ajceb-6228
      author: Belayutham, Sheila; Zabidin, Nadia Safura; Che Ibrahim, Che Khairil Izam
       title: Dynamic Representation of Barriers for Adopting Building Information Modelling in Malaysian Tertiary Education
        date: 2018-12-12
       words: 8022
      flesch: 35
     summary: Nonetheless, the current landscape suggests that little pedagogic research has been undertaken to advance BIM education, as compared to BIM adoption in the industry. Dynamic Representation of Barriers for Adopting Building Information Modelling in Malaysian Tertiary Education Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 201825 Previous studies have investigated the challenges of BIM education by eliciting the most important issues,but limited studies were found on the identification of root causes and the inter-relationship between the different challenges, which could lead to the recurrence of the barriers of BIM adoption (Mamter, Aziz and Zulkepli, 2017).
    keywords: 2018; adoption; ali; analysis; approach; aspects; barriers; belayutham; bim; bim adoption; bim education; bim software; building; causal; challenges; change; civil; civil engineering; cld; conference; construction; construction economics; core; correlation; courses; current; curricular; data; december; deterministic; diagram; different; dynamic; economics; education; education construction; engineering; factor; figure; framework; ibrahim; implementation; industry; information; institutions; insufficient; issues; lack; lecturers; limited; loop; malaysia; management; mean; methodology; modelling; new; people; perspective; process; questionnaire; related; relationships; representation; requirements; research; rodríguez; software; spearman; stage; structure; students; studies; study; survey; system; table; technology; teknologi; tertiary; tertiary education; time; tools; universities; university; value; variables; vol; zabidin
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        item: #322 of 394
          id: ajceb-6279
      author: Lingard, Helen; Selva Raj, Isaac; Lythgo, Noel; Troynikov, Olga; Fitzgerald, Chris
       title: The impact of tool selection on back and wrist injury risk in tying steel reinforcement bars: a single case experiment
        date: 2019-05-08
       words: 8975
      flesch: 54
     summary: The impact of tool selection on back and wrist injury risk in tying steel reinforcement bars: a single case experiment Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan-Jun 20199 PAGE NUMBER NOT FOR CITATION PURPOSES Figure 3 Use of the conventional pincer-cutter (A), power tying tool (B) and long handled stapler tool (C) at ground level The three tools produced significantly different values for mean trunk inclination at all work heights (p < 0.05). Second, we conducted a controlled analysis of steel tying work being performed at different work heights using three different tools.
    keywords: analysis; ankle; assessment; australia; bars; body; building; case; citation; conditions; construction; construction economics; construction work; conventional; cutter; cutter tool; data; degrees; design; different; disorders; economics; ergonomic; experiment; extension; factors; figure; fitzgerald; fixers; flexion; ground; hand; health; height; hip; impact; inclination; industry; injury; jan; journal; jun; knee; level; lingard; long; lythgo; mean; measurement; movement; msds; musculoskeletal; number; occupational; overhead; page; participant; peak; pincer; power; purposes; reinforcement; research; right; risk; rotation; selection; sensors; shoulder; single; stapler; stapler tool; steel; steel reinforcement; steel tying; study; task; time; tool; tool selection; troynikov; trunk; tying; tying tool; upper; use; values; van; vol; wearable; wire; work; work heights; workers; working; wrist
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        item: #323 of 394
          id: ajceb-6280
      author: Langston, Craig; Chan, Edwin H.W.; Yung, Esther H.K.
       title: Embodied Carbon and Construction Cost Differences between Hong Kong and Melbourne Buildings
        date: 2018-12-12
       words: 7733
      flesch: 51
     summary: Both equations for Hong Kong are provided below – where Cost is measured in HKD (millions): EE N = 346.77 x Cost (Eq.1) EE R = 296.23 x Cost (Eq.2) Figures 2 and 3 show this correlation graphically for Hong Kong projects. 2. Hong Kong projects are generally high-rise while Melbourne projects are generally low-rise.
    keywords: analysis; area; august; australia; available; average; build projects; building; buildings construction; c.k; carbon; case; cfa; chan; chau; china; construction; construction cost; construction economics; conversion; cost; cradle; cycle; data; december; differences; different; doi; economics; electricity; emissions; energy; environment; factor; figure; floor; fuel; future; generation; gfa; global; high; higher; hkd; hong; hong kong; http://10.1016; impacts; intensities; international; kgco; kgco2e; kong; langston; life; materials; mean; melbourne; melbourne buildings; metre; mix; new; office; performance; power; projects; refurbished; refurbished projects; relationship; research; residential; results; rise; square; study; table; university; use; vol; work; yung
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        item: #324 of 394
          id: ajceb-6331
      author: Belayutham, Sheila; Che Ibrahim, Che Khairil Izam
       title: Barriers and strategies for better safety practices: the case of construction SMEs in Malaysia
        date: 2019-05-08
       words: 9887
      flesch: 43
     summary: Apart from relying mostly on direct funding from the government, a mechanism such as tax incentives could also be introduced (i.e. any cost spent for OHS training could be given tax exemptions), linking cost of safety performance in the premium insurance (as a Barriers and Strategies for Better Safety Practices: The Case of Construction SMEs in Malaysia Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 19, No. 1, Jan-Jun 201915 PAGE NUMBER NOT FOR CITATION PURPOSES driver to increase SMEs’ motivation and awareness in construction site safety) and OHS workshops handled by local authorities/private clients could be initiated to help the construction SMEs. Comparison to Related OHS Studies on Construction SMEs The results found in this study presents an opportunity for comparison with other related OHS studies on construction SMEs.
    keywords: accidents; addition; authorities; barriers; belayutham; better; better safety; building; bumiputera; bumiputera construction; case; citation; commitment; compliance; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; construction safety; construction smes; context; contractors; cost; countries; culture; current; different; dosh; e.g.; economics; effective; engineering; enterprises; environment; et al; evidence; example; findings; firms; funding; government; h&s; health; ibrahim; implementation; industry; jan; journal; jun; knowledge; lack; level; lingard; main; malaysia; malaysia construction; management; management practices; manu; mean; medium; nature; number; occupational; ohs; ohs implementation; ohs management; ohs practices; order; page; performance; poor; practices; project; purposes; regulations; related; relevant; research; respondents; risk; safety; safety culture; safety management; safety performance; safety practices; sector; site; small; smes; social; specific; strategies; studies; study; sub; survey; table; tougher; training; value; variables; vol; workers; workshops
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          id: ajceb-6362
      author: Mwelu, Noah; Davis, Peter R; Ke, Yongjian; Watundu, Susan
       title: Compliance within a Regulatory Framework in Implementing Public Road Construction Projects
        date: 2018-12-12
       words: 9671
      flesch: 32
     summary: Accordingly, this study contributes to existing construction management and public procurement studies generally and particularly in public road construction by showing that sanctions on staff, perceived inefficiency of public procurement regulatory framework and contractors’ resistance to non-compliance with public procurement regulatory framework are significant compliance factors in enhancing compliance with public procurement regulatory framework governing public road construction projects. The purpose of this study is to establish factors affecting compliance within a public procurement regulatory framework in public road construction projects and foster economic development.
    keywords: activities; analysis; australia; authority; basheka; brugman; building; business; buvik; challenges; compliance; construction; construction economics; construction management; construction projects; contractors; current; data; davis; december; design; development; dimaggio; economics; effective; efficient; environment; equation; example; experience; eyaa; factors; familiarity; findings; frameworks; gelderman; ghijsen; goals; government; hair; high; hinings; hypotheses; implementation; indicators; industry; inefficiency; institutional; international; journal; kampala; knowledge; lack; level; literature; management; measurement; mechanism; model; modeling; monitoring; mwakibinga; mwelu; new; non; officers; oluka; organizational; partial; performance; pls; poor; powell; ppda; previous; process; procurement regulatory; professionalism; public; public construction; public officers; public procurement; public road; regulatory; regulatory framework; relationship; reliability; reports; research; resistance; respective; results; review; ringle; road construction; sanctions; science; sector; significant; staff; structural; studies; study; subsector; systems; table; theory; uganda; university; use; validity; value; variables; vol; watundu; watundu construction
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        item: #326 of 394
          id: ajceb-6431
      author: Dolla, Tharun; Laishram, Boeing
       title: Prequalification in municipal solid waste management public-private partnerships of India
        date: 2019-05-08
       words: 9096
      flesch: 44
     summary: PPP projects in national highways sector are counted as one of the sectors, besides the power sector, which has been able to successfully attract private capital investment in India. This is further carried to Section 3, which sets the context of the study for PQ of PPP projects in India.
    keywords: analysis; annual; aspects; average; bidders; bidding; building; capacity; case; citation; coefficient; collection; commission; competition; constant; construction; contractors; cost; criteria; current; design; different; documents; dolla; economics; engineering; experience; finance; financial; financial capacity; government; highway; highway projects; increase; independent; india; infrastructure; inr; jan; jun; laishram; landfill; limits; literature; management; market; minimum; msw; msw projects; municipal; net; number; page; partnerships; ppp; ppp msw; ppp projects; pq criteria; pq limits; prequalification; private; procedures; process; processing; procurement; project cost; project size; projects; public; purposes; regression; research; sample; sector; selection; set; size; solid; stage; study; table; technical; technical capacity; tpd; transportation; turnover; ulbs; value; variable; vol; waste; worth
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        item: #327 of 394
          id: ajceb-6504
      author: Lester, Danielle; Torero, Jose
       title: Using megaproject performance outcomes to enhance decision-making behaviors in civil engineering graduates
        date: 2019-09-10
       words: 6855
      flesch: 38
     summary: ‘Enhancing employability skills’ was identified as a key requirement, and while project and business management skills are being incorporated into global engineering curriculum, addressing the psychology of decision making, specific to engineers, lacks supporting research and requires further study. Insights into Decision Making: A Tribute to Hillel J. Einhorn.
    keywords: ability; academic; analysis; applied; autonomy; behaviours; biases; building; civil; civil engineering; cohort; construction; critical; curricular; data; deception; decision; decision making; delusion; design; development; economics; education; engineering; engineers; environment; factors; flyvbjerg; future; graduates; group; higher; icarus; icarus program; impact; incentives; individual; infrastructure; interest; intervention; interviews; intrinsic; journal; kahneman; learning; lester; making; management; megaproject; motivation; new; non; opportunity; outcomes; participants; performance; press; program; project; psychology; qualitative; quality; r.m; research; risk; role; second; skills; smith; social; students; study; technical; test; theory; thinking; thought; time; torero; transport; tversky; undergraduate; university; vol; year
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        item: #328 of 394
          id: ajceb-6574
      author: Onubi, Hilary Omatule; Yusof, Nor'Aini; Hassan, Ahmad Sanusi
       title: Green site practices and environmental performance: how project complexity moderates the relationship
        date: 2019-09-17
       words: 9102
      flesch: 39
     summary: Project complexity undoubtedly is a very important factor in construction project management and project performance as it brings forth extra hindrances in the quest for achieving project objectives (Dao et al., 2016).  Construction project complexity: research trends and implications.
    keywords: activities; analysis; assessment; building; complexity; construction; construction economics; construction materials; construction projects; construction site; cost; data; degree; different; economics; effect; energy; energy management; engineering; environmental; environmental performance; et al; factors; figure; gibson; green; green construction; hassan; high; hypothesis; impact; industry; international; items; journal; kock; level; low; low complexity; luo; malaysia; management; management practices; managers; managing; materials; materials management; measurement; method; model; moderating; moderator; nigeria; onubi1; path; performance; planning; pls; practices; process; processes; professionals; project complexity; project management; project managers; project performance; projects; relationship; relationship construction; research; respondents; results; role; sem; site; site practices; size; stakeholders; standards; structural; studies; study; sustainable; systems; table; use; values; variables; vol; waste; waste management; yusof
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        item: #329 of 394
          id: ajceb-6601
      author: Adinyira, Emmanuel; Agyekum, Kofi; Baiden, Bernard Kofi; Ebohon, Obas John ; Ampratwum, Godslove
       title: Regeneration of Sub-Saharan Africa’s open market places: a case for Guileless stakeholder participation
        date: 2020-05-09
       words: 7872
      flesch: 48
     summary: According to Usta, Ulger and Iban (2015), urban regeneration projects are implemented not only in slum areas, but also in areas that are sensitive to natural manmade hazards. From a case study of the regeneration redevelopment of the largest open-air market in West Africa i.e. Kumasi Central Market, the need for stakeholder participation in the entire regeneration process is emphasised.
    keywords: adinyira; africa; agyekum; ampratwum; analysis; areas; attributes; available; baiden; building; case; central; central market; cities; construction; data; development; different; ebohon; economics; fire; ghana; government; group; guileless; implementation; important; information; informed; interests; interview; issues; june; kma; kumasi; kumasi central; legitimacy; literature; local; major; management; market; market regeneration; marketplaces; methods; modern; needs; new; non; online; open; oteng; participation; people; phase; place; planning; power; process; project; project management; public; qualitative; questions; regeneration; regeneration project; research; residents; saharan; social; stage; stakeholder; stakeholder participation; start; study; sub; sustainability; sustainable; time; traders; transporters; university; urban; urban regeneration; urgency; users; vol
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        item: #330 of 394
          id: ajceb-6605
      author: de Kock, Pieter Marthinus; Carta, Silvio
       title: Trojans of ambiguity vs resilient regeneration: visual meaning in cities
        date: 2020-05-09
       words: 8800
      flesch: 44
     summary: As the consequence of the elimination of unpredictability by computers, new patterns of use of space and behaviours around new visual meaning are likely to emerge. php/AJCEB RESEARCH ARTICLE Trojans of ambiguity vs resilient regeneration: visual meaning in cities Pieter Marthinus de Kock1* and Silvio Carta2 1 Lincoln School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK 2 School of Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Campus, Herts AL10 9AB, UK *Corresponding author: Pieter Marthinus de Kock, Lincoln School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK; Email - pprojexio3@ gmail.com DOI: 10.5130/AJCEB.v20i2.6605 Article history: Received 5/19/2019; Revised 5/10/2019 & 13/11/2019 Accepted 11/28/2019; Published 22/06/2020 Abstract
    keywords: activity; agent; ambiguity; approach; apr; architecture; available; behaviour; blocks; building; carta; case; cities; city; complexity; complexity explorer; concept; conditions; construction; context; contract; data; design; development; different; digital; economics; elements; emergence; emergent; environment; evans; example; experience; explorer; figure; heygate; holland; human; iconic; information; introduction; jones; june; kock; labs; lies; like; london; mar; meaning; models; networks; new; nodes; online; paper; patterns; people; physical; point; process; projects; public; quayside; real; regeneration; reserve; resilient; richness; self; sense; sidewalk; simple; smart; social; space; study; sustainability; sustainable; systems; technology; terms; time; toronto; trojans; understanding; university; urban; urban regeneration; use; video; video online; visual; visual meaning; visual sustainability; vol; way; ways; western; world
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        item: #331 of 394
          id: ajceb-6613
      author: Anund Vogel, Jonas; Lind, Hans; Holm, Cyril
       title: Incentivising innovation in the construction sector: the role of consulting contracts
        date: 2019-11-12
       words: 8249
      flesch: 42
     summary: It is also important to include risks other than financial risks, such as technology risks, emissions risks, etc. The possible solutions discussed here should also be investigated more thoroughly in future studies: for example, empirical studies that compare standard contracts in different countries.
    keywords: abk; agent; article; available; building; chapter; cities; client; climate; committee; conditions; construction; construction contracts; construction economics; construction sector; consultant; contracts; contractual; current; damages; december; design; developers; dilemma; economics; energy; future; general; holmström; important; incentives; incentivize; industry; innovation; knowledge; liability; lind; long; milgrom; model; neutral; new; novel; operation; optimal; order; ostrom; parties; performance; planning; possible; principal; professionalism; research; risk; role; section; sector; sharing; short; smart; social; standard; structures; study; sustainability; sustainable; sweden; swedish; systems; technologies; technology; term; time; use; vogel; vol; work
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        item: #332 of 394
          id: ajceb-6629
      author: Mwakabole, Godfrey Charles; Gurmu, Argaw Tarekegn; Tivendale, Linda
       title: Investigation of the challenges facing public-private partnership projects in Australia
        date: 2019-09-10
       words: 7773
      flesch: 41
     summary: The National Public Private Partnership Guidelines (Commonwealth of Australia, 2008) policies and laws have been developed by the Australian Federal and State Governments to help people understand and run PPP projects successfully. However, none of the previous researchers have investigated why some PPP projects are not successful despite Australia’s many years of experience in delivering PPP projects successfully.
    keywords: 2019; allocation; approach; approval; assessment; assurance; australia; available; building; business; case; challenges; chan; cheung; construction; contract; cost; critical; csf; decision; delivery; design; development; east; economics; environment; ewl; ewl project; factors; financial; gateway; government; guidelines; gurmu; impact; implementation; information; infrastructure; infrastructure projects; interest; investigation; ismail; jan; journal; kajewski; legal; light; link; management; melbourne; mwakabole; national; nsw; office; partnership; party; planning; political; ppp; ppp projects; private; process; procurement; project; public; public private; rail; review; risk; sector; similar; slr; state; studies; study; success; support; sydney; table; termination; time; tivendale; transport; treasury; vago; victoria; vol; west; zhang
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        item: #333 of 394
          id: ajceb-6632
      author: Oke, Ayodeji Emmanuel; O. Aghimien, Douglas; O. Aigbavboa, Clinton; I. Akinradewo, Opeoluwa
       title: Appraisal of the drivers of smart city development in South Africa
        date: 2020-05-09
       words: 8794
      flesch: 52
     summary: Smart cities drivers and ICT : in search of relationships. Relationship between smart city drivers and socially inclusive societies.
    keywords: 2019; africa; aghimien; aigbavboa; akinradewo; amitrano; appraisal; attainment; bawa; bifulco; building; citizens; city development; construction; country; data; development; difference; drivers; economics; economy; education; environment; et al; european; findings; ghosal; giffinger; governance; government; group; growth; halder; health; high; ict; improved; information; innovation; international; june; key; knowledge; kruskal; lee; level; life; living; management; mean; mis; mobility; need; oke; people; pollution; population; professionals; proper; public; quality; research; respondents; result; services; shows; significant; smart; smart cities; smart city; smart economy; smart environment; smart governance; smart living; smart mobility; smart people; social; south; south africa; studies; study; sustainable; systems; table; technology; test; urban; use; value; variables; view; vol; wallis; years
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          id: ajceb-6646
      author: Khanyile, Nokulunga S.M.; Musonda, Innocent; Agumba, Justus Ngala
       title: Evaluating the relationship between communication management practices and project outcomes: a case study of Eswatini (Swaziland) construction industry
        date: 2019-11-12
       words: 8760
      flesch: 34
     summary: Project communication: is key to productive construction and its research needs in the future of construction engineering and management. It can be then suggested that the three communication management practices in Eswatini construction projects are consistent with project team communication management practices in Italy.
    keywords: adequate; agumba; analysis; available; brief; building; case; channels; clear; common; communication; communication management; communication technology; competence; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; construction projects; context; correlation; data; december; economics; effective; eigen; environment; eswatini; factor; factor analysis; garbharran; good; govender; hypothesis; impact; industry; information; international; items; journal; khanyile; management; management plan; management practices; matrix; measures; msani; muhammad; musonda; ojeba; organisation; outcome; performance; plan; prabhakar; practices; project; project management; project outcome; proportion; quality; questionnaire; relationship; research; results; review; risk; significant; skendrović; skills; stakeholders; structure; study; success; survey; swaziland; table; teamwork; technology; time; tipili; university; value; variance; vol; čulo
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        item: #335 of 394
          id: ajceb-6649
      author: Chaurasia, Sushil S.; Verma, Surabhi
       title: Strategic determinants of big data analytics in the AEC sector: a multi-perspective framework
        date: 2020-11-18
       words: 7589
      flesch: 42
     summary: The investigation combined the perceived strategic value of BDA with the TOE framework (technology, organization, and environment), to develop and test a holistic model on big data adoption. Labrinidis and Jagadish, (2012) argued that competitive pressure acts as an enabler to big data adoption in the construction industry.
    keywords: adoption; aec; analysis; analytics; associated; bda; bda adoption; benefits; bhattacharyya; big; big data; building; business; challenges; characteristics; chaurasia; chen; compatibility; competitive; complexity; construction; construction economics; construction firms; constructs; data; data analytics; december; determinants; economics; engineering; environment; et al; factors; firms; framework; framework construction; hypotheses; important; industry; information; innovation; intention; international; journal; literature; low; management; martins; model; multi; oliveira; organisations; p<0.01; pearson; perspective; popovič; pressure; psvam; quality; readiness; regulatory; research; resources; results; sample; sector; service; shin; significant; size; strategic; strategic value; study; support; systems; table; technological; technology; test; theory; toe; understanding; value; verma; vol; wang; yang
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          id: ajceb-6650
      author: Boyle, Luke; Michell, Kathy
       title: Key ingredients for a collaborative urban regeneration strategy in the Global South
        date: 2020-06-22
       words: 7862
      flesch: 46
     summary: This calls for the application of urban regeneration processes that are founded upon principles of collaborative governance. Without these factors urban regeneration is likely to only entrench the complex urban issues it seeks to reconcile.
    keywords: actors; african; approach; area; boyle; building; cape; case; cities; collaborative; collaborative urban; communication; communities; community; community members; construction; delivery; depth; design; development; document; economics; engagement; engagement process; findings; form; global; global south; governance; government; habitat; housing; ingredients; issues; june; key; lack; little; local; marginalised; meaningful; members; michell; nature; need; non; npc; number; organisation; participation; planning; poor; potential; process; processes; project; public; regeneration; regeneration process; regeneration strategy; rental; research; residents; respondents; result; role; service; social; solutions; south; spatial; state; strategy; study; sustainability; sustainable; terms; town; trust; urban; urban regeneration; vol; wolfram; workshops
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        item: #337 of 394
          id: ajceb-6657
      author: Das, Dillip Kumar
       title: Perspectives of smart cities in South Africa through applied systems analysis approach: a case of Bloemfontein
        date: 2020-05-09
       words: 11257
      flesch: 41
     summary: Perspectives of smart cities in South Africa through applied systems analysis approach: a case of Bloemfontein. php/AJCEB RESEARCH ARTICLE Perspectives of smart cities in South Africa through applied systems analysis approach: a case of Bloemfontein Dillip Kumar Das The Discipline of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, Howard College, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.
    keywords: accessibility; activities; adequate; africa; analysis; approach; asa; aspects; attributes; availability; available; batty; bloemfontein; bloemfontein city; building; business; case; causal; challenges; city; city development; communication; complex; conceptual; construction; context; das; data; decision; developed; development; different; discussions; dynamics; economic; economy; emuze; entrepreneurship; environment; et al; evaluation; factors; feedback; focus; giffinger; governance; governance system; group; households; ict; image; important; influence; information; infrastructure; innovation; international; interventions; journal; june; knowledge; level; local; making; mechanism; mobility; modelling; models; needs; new; nijkamp; online; opportunities; participation; people; perceptions; performance; perspectives; planning; policy; positive; praharaj; process; productivity; public; quality; reinforcing; relationships; research; respondents; review; safe; services; smart; smart cities; smart city; smart economy; smart governance; smart mobility; social; sokolov; south; south africa; stakeholders; study; survey; sustainability; sustainable; system; table; technology; transparency; transportation; urban; vol
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        item: #338 of 394
          id: ajceb-6659
      author: Bröchner, Jan; Silfwerbrand, Johan
       title: Performance of performance specifications in design-build highway projects
        date: 2019-11-12
       words: 7217
      flesch: 39
     summary: During construction, a mix of performance and prescriptive requirement formulations is more of a challenge than clashes between performance requirements. There is sometimes a conflict between performance requirements for energy efficiency in housing and other requirements intended to secure health and safety of occupants.
    keywords: administration; analysis; areas; axiomatic; bridges; bröchner; build; build highway; building; case; choice; clauses; client; concrete; conflicts; construction; construction economics; context; contractor; costs; cycle; december; degree; design; detailed; difficult; economics; engineering; environmental; frs; fulfilment; hierarchy; higher; highway; highway projects; https://doi; innovations; innovative; international; interviews; journal; large; level; life; maintenance; management; managers; measurement; molenaar; number; performance; performance requirements; performance specifications; period; plan; potential; prescriptive; problems; projects; projects construction; properties; public; quality; questions; requirements; research; risks; road; safety; service; silfwerbrand; solutions; specifications; structure; study; suh; sustainability; sweden; swedish; technical; technologies; technology; terms; time; transport; transportation; use; vol; washington
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        item: #339 of 394
          id: ajceb-6667
      author: Olanipekun, Ayokunle Olubunmi; Saka, Najimu
       title: Response of the Nigerian construction sector to economic shocks 
        date: 2019-11-12
       words: 9350
      flesch: 49
     summary: The combined detrimental effect of these factors on construction sector investment is the unstable /volatile nature of construction sector demand (Hillebrandt 1988, 2000). Response of the Nigerian construction sector to economic shocks Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 19, No. 2, December 2019165 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/economic In this present study, the equation 1 is used to test short run causality from logarithm of GDP (LGDP) to the logarithm of construction sector (LCS) based on the null hypothesis Ho: the null hypothesis β12=0, if this is rejected then it suggest that GDP causes construction sector (CS).
    keywords: analysis; building; business; capital; causality; cointegration; construction economics; construction industry; construction investment; construction management; construction sector; contribution; countries; country; data; december; demand; development; domestic; econometric; economic; economic growth; economic shocks; economy; effect; error; evidence; exogeneity; fevd; financial; gdp; goods; government; granger; gross; growth; hypothesis; impact; infrastructure; interest; international; investment; journal; lcs; level; lgdp; long; management; market; model; nigerian construction; olanipekun; output; percent; period; plan; policy; product; rate; real; relationship; research; response; result; review; root; run; saka; saka construction; sectors; series; shocks; shocks construction; short; significant; statistics; strong; study; system; table; test; time; tobin; trend; unit; value; variables; variance; vecm; vector; vol; weak; world
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        item: #340 of 394
          id: ajceb-6671
      author: Sørensen, Nils Lykke; Rasmussen, Freja Nygaard; Øien, Turid Borgestrand; Frandsen, Anne Kathrine
       title: Holistic sustainability: advancing interdisciplinary building design through tools and data in Denmark
        date: 2020-05-09
       words: 8650
      flesch: 40
     summary: Some were used as tools for dialogue in discussing sustainability with the client, others as design tools in processing pro’s and con’s based on qualities, parameters, and building elements. The conceptual frameworks of data and tools presented in this study can be used as a backdrop for developing sectoral initiatives to enable holistic decisions in the early stages of sustainable building design.
    keywords: actors; architects; areas; aspects; brief; building; building design; client; climate; comfort; conceptual; construction; construction economics; consulting; cost; current; data; decision; denmark; design; design phases; design process; design stages; development; dialogue; different; digital; dikw; early; early design; economics; empirical; energy; engineer; environmental; experience; figure; focus; framework; frandsen; future; general; hierarchy; holistic; holistic sustainability; idea; individual; indoor; industry; information; interdisciplinary; interdisciplinary building; interviews; journal; june; knowledge; level; materials; model; need; parameters; perspective; phases; planning; process; project; project design; range; rasmussen; regeneration; research; rules; scale; social; specific; stages; study; support; sustainability; sustainability parameters; sustainable; sørensen; table; thumb; tools; types; understanding; urban; use; vol; wisdom; øien
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        item: #341 of 394
          id: ajceb-6679
      author: Zalejska-Jonsson, Agnieszka; Muyingo, Henry
       title: Building inspection in multi-dwelling housing and the perception of building quality
        date: 2019-11-12
       words: 7663
      flesch: 45
     summary: This is followed by a section on the principal-agent perspective and the principal-agent relationships during housing building inspection in Sweden. The relationship between quality defects and the thermal performance of buildings.
    keywords: agent; analysis; building; building inspection; building quality; comments; comparison; construction; construction economics; contractor; costs; customer; data; december; defects; developer; difference; dwelling; economics; energy; estate; fair; figure; forcada; guarantee; handover; housing; hypothesis; index; information; inspection; inspection process; international; jonsson; journal; kruskal; management; mean; multi; muyingo; new; number; owner; paper; perception; performance; perspective; post; principal; problems; process; quality; quality construction; real; relationship; reported; research; residential; respondents; results; satisfaction; sector; significant; size; study; survey; sweden; swedish; table; test; tocs; trust; understanding; value; vol; wallis; year; zalejska
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        item: #342 of 394
          id: ajceb-6692
      author: Ekundayo, Damilola; Babatunde, Solomon Olusola; Ekundayo, Aisha; Perera, Srinath; Udeaja, Chika
       title: Life cycle carbon emissions and comparative evaluation of selected open source UK embodied carbon counting tools
        date: 2019-11-21
       words: 10753
      flesch: 47
     summary: Hammond and Jones (2008a) regard these complexities and uncertainties to be the different boundary definitions, underlying assumptions, age of data, sources and rigour of original life-cycle assessments of embodied carbon tools. Further variances in embodied carbon tools causing disparity in their outputs include different units of measurement, the level of information required and provided, age, sources and the rigour of the underlying data.
    keywords: 2008a; activities; agrawal; analysis; andrews; approach; assessment; assumptions; available; babatunde; based; bis; boundary; building; building element; calculator; capit; carbon; carbon counting; carbon emissions; carbon footprint; carbon measurement; case; case study; cement; change; climate; common; comparative; comparison; concrete; construction; construction carbon; construction economics; counting tools; cradle; cycle carbon; data; december; design; different; economics; ekundayo; element; end; energy; environmental; evaluation; figure; floor; footprint; franklin; grave; green; guide; hammond; ice; industry; information; jones; life; life cycle; literature; london; mah; materials; measurement; methodology; methods; moncaster; need; new; open; operational; operational carbon; pandey; perera; phases; plasterboard; policy; project; quantity; research; review; rics; roberts; significant; site; source; source uk; steel; study; sturgis; system; table; terms; tools; tools construction; typical; typical building; udeaja; unit; university; upper; usage; use; values; vol; waste; work
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        item: #343 of 394
          id: ajceb-6706
      author: None
       title: Framework of Socialisation, Authentic Leadership and Affective Commitment for Construction Professionals
        date: None
       words: 7787
      flesch: 42
     summary: Design and build project success factors: multivariate analysis. Analysis of project success factors in construction industry.
    keywords: affective; affective commitment; allen; analysis; anderson; approach; attitudes; authentic; authentic leadership; ave; avolio; behavior; cfa; commitment; construction; constructs; content; cooper; critical; data; development; discrepancy; domains; employee; environment; factor; factor measurement; factor model; factor structure; fit; following; future; gardner; goals; human; hypothesis; i.e.; industry; international; items; iyer; jha; journal; leadership; literature; management; measurement; measurement model; meyer; model; new; order; organisational; organisational commitment; organisational socialisation; participants; performance; process; professionals; project; prospects; psychological; psychology; research; researchers; resource; respondents; results; review; role; scale; sector; socialisation; structure; study; success; support; table; taormina; thomas; training; understanding; validity; walumbwa; work; worker
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        item: #344 of 394
          id: ajceb-6721
      author: Yembi Renault, Berenger; Agumba, Justus Ngala; Ansary, Nazee
       title: Underlying structures of risk response measures among small and medium contractors in South Africa
        date: 2020-03-01
       words: 7739
      flesch: 49
     summary: Sections 1 to 4 reported respectively on basic information about the respondent and the company, project risks, obstacles to RM implementation, and RM practices. Trailing and leading measures should, consequently, be adopted to appraise and effectively manage project risks.
    keywords: africa; agumba; analysis; annual; ansary; appropriate; avoidance; azis; building; business; company; components; construction; construction economics; construction projects; construction smes; contractors; cost; current; data; development; economics; employees; enterprises; experience; extent; factor; fayek; financial; financing; funding; gauteng; hidayat; high; impact; industry; insurance; international; items; journal; lack; leading; leboea; literature; management; march; measures; medium; method; mitigation; negative; performance; plan; practices; project; renault; research; respondents; response; response measures; results; retention; risk; risk management; risk response; rrms; size; small; smes; south; south africa; strategy; structures; studies; study; success; table; tanojo; time; transfer; underlying; variables; vol; years
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        item: #345 of 394
          id: ajceb-6730
      author: Okoro, Chioma Sylvia; Musonda, Innocent; Agumba, Justus Ngala
       title: Validity and reliability of a transportation infrastructure sustainable performance framework: a study of transport projects in South Africa
        date: 2019-11-12
       words: 7782
      flesch: 33
     summary: The findings validated that a four-factor structure, with eleven variables, could adequately measure transportation infrastructure project sustainability (PS). Therefore, research on transportation infrastructure project sustainability is paramount in order to ensure that projects continue to deliver intended benefits to generations of users.
    keywords: 2019; acceptability; acceptable; addition; africa; agumba; amiril; analysis; aspects; ave; awang; building; business; byrne; cfa; complaints; condition; construction; constructs; correlations; critical; current; data; december; development; discriminant; economics; efa; environmental; equation; established; factors; financial; fit; framework; good; greater; impacts; indicators; indices; infrastructure; infrastructure projects; infrastructure sustainability; input; international; items; journal; latent; level; life; literature; long; management; measurement; measures; model; modeling; musonda; okoro; paper; performance; phase; policy; project sustainability; projects; public; quality; quantitative; reliability; research; results; review; road; root; safety; sample; security; social; south; square; structural; study; sustainability; sustainable; system; table; transportation; transportation infrastructure; user; validity; values; variables; vol; yes
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          id: ajceb-6735
      author: D.M, Taofeeq; A.Q, Adeleke;  Ajibike W.A.
       title: Human Factors Influencing Contractors' Risk Attitudes: A Case Study of the Malaysian Construction Industry 
        date: 2020-03-21
       words: 7751
      flesch: 42
     summary: Risk attitude is defined as a chosen state of mind concerning those uncertainties that could have positive or negative consequences on any activities. Heterogeneity in risk attitude and resultant differences in the ways they do business lead to the questions about the relationships between risk attitude and firm performance, especially as it relates to market diversification in the current study.
    keywords: a.q; adeleke; ajibike; ajibike construction; analysis; approach; background; behaviour; building; case; companies; construction; construction companies; construction economics; construction industry; construction projects; construction risk; contractors; control; copies; cra; decision; different; discriminant; educational; effect; effective; emotional; experience; factors; figure; government; government policy; hair; health; htmt; human; human factors; influence; intelligence; international; items; journal; kamaruddeen; latent; lee; literature; malaysian construction; management; managers; march; method; model; moderating; moderator; organizational; performance; physical; pls; point; policy; positive; projects; questionnaire; questions; relationship; research; results; risk attitudes; risk management; risks; role; scale; sem; significant; size; structural; studies; study; supported; table; taofeeq; theory; validity; value; variable; vol; wang; work
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        item: #347 of 394
          id: ajceb-6746
      author: Peel, James; Ahmed, Vian; Saboor, Sara
       title: An investigation of barriers and enablers to energy efficiency retrofitting of social housing in London
        date: 2020-05-09
       words: 8085
      flesch: 42
     summary: Therefore, this paper seeks to identify key barriers and enablers for social housing retrofitting as reported by literature. Methodological Steps A qualitative approach based on semi-structured interviews and survey was used to identify the barriers and enablers for social housing retrofitting from the key stakeholders’ point of view.
    keywords: advice; ahmed; availability; awareness; barriers; building; carbon; categories; category; change; climate; comments; concern; condition; confidence; construction; construction economics; contractors; data; domestic; economics; eer; eersh; efficiency; efficiency retrofitting; emissions; enablers; energy; energy efficiency; factors; financial; freq; funding; good; government; grant; green; hard; housing; initiatives; interviewee; investigation; issues; june; key; lack; level; literature; london; low; maintenance; management; measures; national; new; peel; policies; policy; poor; problem; properties; quality; reduction; regulation; report; research; residents; retrofitting; saboor; schemes; sector; significant; skills; sls; social; social housing; stock; study; table; technical; thought; understanding; united; urbed; vol; works; years
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        item: #348 of 394
          id: ajceb-6750
      author: Edison, J.C.; Singla, Harish Kumar
       title: Development of a scale for factors causing delays in infrastructure projects in India
        date: 2020-03-07
       words: 8250
      flesch: 47
     summary: The overall results indicated that the financial factors are the most important among the major factors causing construction project delays in Ghana. The review of literature on project delays came across a series of remarkable empirical studies covering several countries.
    keywords: analysis; architectural; authors; ave; building; causes; cfa; communication; conditions; conflicts; construction; construction delays; construction economics; construction management; construction projects; consultant; contractor; coordination; cost; data; delays; delivery; design; development; documents; economics; edison; efa; effect; engineering; equipment; et al; experience; external; factors; financial; fit; hair; https://doi; important; inadequate; india; india construction; industry; infrastructure; infrastructure projects; international; items; journal; labour; labourers; level; literature; loadings; low; major; management; march; material; model; overruns; owner; parties; phase; planning; poor; prakash; productivity; project delays; project management; projects; rank; related; reliability; research; respondents; results; review; road; scale; schedule; shortage; singla; site; studies; study; supervision; table; time; utilities; validity; value; variance; vol; water; work; years
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        item: #349 of 394
          id: ajceb-7000
      author: Kamardeen, Imriyas; Samaratunga, Marini
       title: DigiExplanation driven assignments for personalising learning in construction education
        date: 2020-09-03
       words: 8489
      flesch: 38
     summary: Engagement 3.70 3.72 3.77 3.60 3.40 3.64 0.555 0.696 Collaboration 3.85 3.68 3.77 3.63 3.80 3.72 0.298 0.879 Capitalise digital competencies 3.45 3.76 3.54 3.63 3.67 3.62 0.436 0.782 Harnessing internet resources 3.55 3.84 3.69 3.49 3.73 3.64 0.981 0.422 Self-managed learning 3.85 3.84 3.85 3.66 3.80 3.78 0.386 0.818 Progressive feedback 3.70 3.64 3.77 3.43 3.60 3.59 0.634 0.294 Learning experience 3.30 3.36 3.38 3.00 3.00 3.19 0.073 0.990 CRITICAL ASPECTS FOR IMPROVED STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCE For example, continuous constructive feedback on project-based assignments is helpful in student learning, where the comments could be DigiExplanation driven assignments for personalising learning in construction education Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 20, No. 3, September 2020107 utilised in additional learning and in revising the original task.
    keywords: anova; approach; assessment; assignment; australia; authentic; building; capitalise; case; characteristics; collaboration; competencies; construction; construction economics; construction education; digiexplanation; digiexplanation assignment; digital; economics; education; effectiveness; engagement; engaging; experience; feedback; figure; flexibility; framework; good; harnessing; hoban; ict; industry; information; interesting; international; internet; journal; kamardeen; knowledge; language; learner; learning; learning experience; literature; media; methods; model; months; neutral; new; online; overall; paper; pedagogical; personalised; personalised learning; prior; process; progressive; relevant; research; resources; respondents; results; review; samaratunga; science; self; september; significant; skills; strategies; students; study; subject; survey; table; teaching; technologies; time; topic; traditional; type; university; use; vol; way; work; year
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          id: ajceb-7015
      author: Datta, Abhijnan ; Ninan, Johan; Sankaran, Shankar
       title: 4D visualization to bridge the knowing-doing gap in megaprojects: an Australian case study
        date: 2020-11-16
       words: 8209
      flesch: 42
     summary: There is a need for improving safety management practices in construction projects (Belayutham & Ibrahim, 2019). An evaluation of the applicability of 4D CAD on construction projects.
    keywords: activities; article; australian; autoethnography; available; bias; bim; bridge; building; cad; case; challenges; civil; client; communication; construction; construction economics; construction management; contractor; cost; crews; datta; december; different; drawings; economics; electrical; engineering; environment; equipment; exercise; facility; findings; flyvbjerg; gap; https://doi; industry; information; interface; international; issues; journal; knowing; knowledge; levels; literature; making; management; measures; megaprojects; model; months; multiple; ninan; non; optimism; performance; planning; potential; program; project; project management; research; review; risk; risk management; role; safety; sankaran; schedule; site; stakeholders; study; team; technical; technology; time; use; van; vent; visualization; vol; workers; working; works
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        item: #351 of 394
          id: ajceb-7035
      author: Ruge, Gesa; Mackintosh, Lara
       title: Facilitating reflective practice: developing built environment educators’ capacity for teaching and learning
        date: 2020-09-03
       words: 7375
      flesch: 34
     summary: Reflecting on their current teaching philosophy and teaching practice, Theme 2) Constructing a personal teaching profile, Theme 3) Acknowledging current skills and enhancing teaching and learning strategies and Theme 4) Introduction HIGHER EDUCATION CONTEXT Internationalisation and digitisation of higher education teaching and learning has created global employment opportunities and mobility for academics and students alike (Hattingh et al., 2015).
    keywords: academics; approach; australia; building; capacity; case; collaborative; construction; context; conversations; current; design; development; discipline; economics; education; educators; environment; expectations; experiences; facilitated; feedback; findings; focused; future; group; higher; higher education; individual; innovation; institutional; international; journal; kennelly; key; learning; literature; mackintosh; management; mccormack; new; outcomes; participants; pedagogy; personal; philosophy; practice; process; professional; professional development; profile; programs; qualitative; quality; reflective; reflective practice; research; review; ruge; school; schönwetter; september; skills; specific; staff; strategies; student; studies; study; support; teacher; teaching; teaching philosophy; teaching profile; theme; theory; university; vol; workshops
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        item: #352 of 394
          id: ajceb-7040
      author: Tews, Tim; Skulmoski, Greg; Langston, Craig; Patching, Alan
       title: Innovation in project management education - let’s get serious!
        date: 2020-09-03
       words: 7974
      flesch: 44
     summary: Applying Modelica tools to system dynamics-based learning games: project management game. Lessons learned from implementing project management games.
    keywords: activities; assessment; australia; badges; benefits; bond; building; business; calderón; case; classroom; computers; construction; data; decision; design; digital; economics; education; educators; effective; effects; elements; emsley; engagement; engineering; et al; experience; faculty; feedback; focus; future; games; gamification; gamified; global; higher; higher education; human; important; individual; information; innovation; international; journal; learning; literature; making; management; management education; management simulation; motivation; n n; new; online; outcomes; participants; performance; playing; pmi; positive; pp.1; programs; project; project management; questions; reflection; research; results; review; role; ruiz; rumeser; september; simulation; simulation games; simultrain; skills; software; students; study; survey; systems; table; teaching; team; technology; tews; time; traditional; training; university; use; vol; y n
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        item: #353 of 394
          id: ajceb-7056
      author: Ullah, Fahim ; Sepasgozer, Samad; Tahmasebinia , Faham ; Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh Sepasgozar, Saleh; Davis, Steven 
       title: Examining the impact of students’ attendance, sketching, visualization, and tutors experience on students’ performance: a case of building structures course in construction management 
        date: 2020-09-03
       words: 10804
      flesch: 45
     summary: The keywords used in the first step of the study consisted of “Student sketches”, “Student attendance”, “Student performance “and “Student visualization” that yielded 1,272,676 results in total which includes 1,170,091 results for G1, 94,513 for G2 and 8,072 for G3 respectively. Similarly, Gershenson (2016) investigated the linkage among student attendance, student performance, and teaching quality in North Carolina for primary school students to highlight that attendance has substantial statistical relation with students’ performance.
    keywords: academic; academic performance; animations; articles; aspects; assessment; attendance; australia; authors; average; better; building; case; category; civil; class; clear; components; concepts; construction; construction economics; construction education; construction management; course; criteria; critical; current; data; design; different; economics; education; engagement; engineering; engineering education; et al; evidence; excellent; experience; factors; figure; final; focus; focused; freehand; fresh; good; group; help; higher; impact; international; journal; key; language; learning; lectures; limit; literature; load; low; management; marks; novice; number; online; overall; papers; percent; performance; process; real; relation; relationship; research; resources; results; review; school; sepasgozar; september; sketches; sketching; skills; structures; student attendance; student performance; student sketching; student visualization; students; study; sustainable; systematic; table; teaching; technology; terms; total; tutors; ullah; understanding; university; visualization; visualized; vol
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          id: ajceb-7059
      author: Zhang, Shang; Duan, Hongxia; Wei, Tingting; Shane, Galvin
       title: A review of university-enterprise-cooperation research in China: a quantitative perspective
        date: 2020-09-03
       words: 8336
      flesch: 37
     summary: On the other hand, with comparison to the large amount of UEC papers published in the same period, the 300 sample papers may not represent the overall status and development trend of UEC research in China. However, based on the best knowledge of the authors, no existing literature has conducted a quantitative statistical analysis on UEC research in Chinese and international journals.
    keywords: analysis; approach; building; capability; china; chinese; collaboration; colleges; companies; company; construction; construction industry; construction management; content; cooperation; cooperation research; course; data; development; duan; economics; education; education research; effective; engineering; engineering education; enterprise; field; findings; general; government; graduates; high; industry; innovation; joint; journals; knowledge; learning; literature; management; methods; model; new; number; order; papers; paradigm; perspective; practical; practice; process; professional; programs; projects; publications; quality; quantitative; research; research methods; researchers; resource; review; september; skills; status; students; study; table; teaching; topics; uec; uec papers; uec research; undergraduate; universities; university; vol; working; world; year; zhang
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        item: #355 of 394
          id: ajceb-7061
      author: Ahmadian Fard Fini, Alireza; Forsythe, Perry
       title: Barriers to reusing and recycling office fit-out: an exploratory analysis of demolition processes and product features
        date: 2020-11-17
       words: 8963
      flesch: 45
     summary: A linguistic or numeric value shown on each arrow corresponds to the likelihood of that pathway for demolition wastes. Current practices of office stripout are found to be shaped mostly by economic decisions arising from the stripout process, cartage and drop off demolition waste.
    keywords: analysis; approach; area; australia; available; barriers; bay; bins; building; case; cbd; cleaner; components; construction; construction economics; contractors; cost; critical; data; december; decision; demolition; demolition processes; demolition waste; design; different; economics; efficiency; elements; end; exploratory; factors; features; figure; findings; fini; fit; floor; forsythe; furniture; grade; handling; high; higher; hours; industry; interviews; items; journal; labour; landfill; landfilling; lease; level; life; lift; literature; loading; logistics; management; mapping; marshalling; mass; materials; metal; methods; mixed; non; office; office building; office fit; onsite; owner; potential; processes; product; production; projects; quantity; rates; recycle; recycling; research; reuse; reusing; single; sites; space; stage; statistics; stream; stripout; studies; study; sufficient; sustainability; sustainable; sydney; techniques; time; tonnes; value; vol; volumetric; waste; waste management; wilkinson; working
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        item: #356 of 394
          id: ajceb-7062
      author: Smallwood, John; Allen, Chris
       title: The impact of a first-year orientation team building exercise 
        date: 2020-09-03
       words: 8359
      flesch: 46
     summary: Weighting of responses is as per the figures recorded within parentheses: did not (0); minor extent (1); near minor extent (2); some extent (3); near major extent (4), and major extent (5). 12 / 17 (70.6%) MSs > 3.34 ≤ 4.17, which indicates the team building activities enhanced the related skills between some extent to a near major / near major extent.
    keywords: abilities; ability; action; activities; ball; building; building activities; building event; competencies; competency; confidence; construction; contribution; conveying; core; development; economics; education; enhanced; enhancement; environment; event; evolve; exercise; general; golf; hike; impact; integrity; learning; major contribution; major extent; management; minor; mss; near major; need; notable; object; orientation; participants; performance; plan; preservation; rank; research; response; self; september; skills; smallwood; strategize; students; study; tactics; team; team building; terms; understanding; vol; work; year
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        item: #357 of 394
          id: ajceb-7119
      author: Marisa, Amy; Yusof, Nor'Aini
       title: Factors influencing the performance of architects in construction projects
        date: 2020-09-03
       words: 7841
      flesch: 42
     summary: The impact of incentive mechanisms on project performance. Figure 1 presents the structural model results on the relationships between working condition (WCond), organisational support (OS), working relationship (WR), design process (DP) and architect performance (ArchPerf ).
    keywords: abdallah; ability; analysis; architects; architectural; archperf; assaf; assessment; building; clients; collinearity; condition; construction; construction economics; construction projects; constructs; criterion; data; design; design process; development; economics; effective; engineering; et al; evaluation; factors; findings; firms; formative; good; hair; hassanain; help; hypothesis; important; individuals; indonesia; industry; influence; international; items; journal; junnonen; kock; kärnä; management; marisa; measurement; medan; method; model; new; objectives; oluwatayo; organisational; oyedele; parties; path; performance; pls; positive; process; professionals; project; quality; relationship; research; respondents; results; satisfaction; sem; september; significant; step; structural; studies; study; success; support; survey; table; team; time; validity; value; vol; working; years; young; yusof
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        item: #358 of 394
          id: ajceb-7121
      author: Livesey, Peter Vincent
       title: Further insights by project managers into the problems in project management
        date: 2020-11-19
       words: 7402
      flesch: 48
     summary: In round 6, the panel members were asked to rate the significance of reflection on both their career development and their ability to solve project problems as they developed. The significance of reflection on career development and the management of project problems Livesey Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 2020142 Discussion ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT IDENTIFIED BY THE DELPHI PANEL Externally imposed salary caps As indicated in the panel’s comments, this problem relates to the project manager not being able to attract suitably qualified team members due to salary caps being established on a basis other than a consideration of the potential contribution of the team member to the project’s success.
    keywords: agree; bias; blame; building; caps; change; comments; conflict; consensus; construction; contract; culture; december; decision; delivery; delphi; development; economics; emotional; emotions; engineering; environment; factors; flyvbjerg; goals; https://doi; https://doi.org/10.1016/j; impact; importance; index; insights; international; journal; large; literature; livesey; loss; making; management; management construction; managers; members; mode; need; optimism; original; ownership; panel; panel members; performance; personal; personnel; potential; problems; project; project management; project managers; project problems; reflection; relative; relative importance; research; responsibility; results; review; risk; salary; score; significant; strengths; study; success; table; team; team members; vision; vol; weaknesses; work
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        item: #359 of 394
          id: ajceb-7134
      author: Paul, Christiana Ada; Aghimien, Douglas Omoregie; Ibrahim, Ahmed Doko; Ibrahim, Yahaya Makarfi
       title: Measures for Curbing Unethical Practices among Construction Industry Professionals: Quantity Surveyors’ Perspective 
        date: 2021-05-27
       words: 8409
      flesch: 45
     summary: In exploring the occurrence of unethical practices among QS in the study area, the result in Table 3 revealed that 90% of the respondents (36) reported that they had witnessed at least a form of unethical practice in the cause of executing their professional duties. While several studies have explored issues touching on ethics, ethics compliance and unethical practices within the construction industry, the problems persist especially in developing countries.
    keywords: 2015; aghimien; aigbavboa; alotaibi; ameh; analysis; approach; behaviour; building; ciob; compliance; component; conduct; conference; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction projects; contract; corruption; countries; data; development; different; economics; eds; efa; engineering; et al; ethics; factors; findings; good; industry; interest; international; issues; journal; june; kingdom; lee; management; measures; nigeria; occurrence; oke; olatunji; oyewobi; past; paul; payment; practices; prevalent; proceedings; professionals; projects; quantity; random; related; reporting; research; respondents; result; sample; services; shah; significant; skitmore; south; stansbury; studies; study; submission; surveying; surveyors; table; test; total; tyali; unethical; unethical practices; united; value; variables; vee; view; vol; works
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        item: #360 of 394
          id: ajceb-7145
      author: Akotia, Julius; Manu, Emmanuel; Opoku, Alex; Sackey, Enoch
       title: The role of built environment practitioners in driving the socio-economic sustainability aspects of sustainable regeneration
        date: 2020-05-09
       words: 10292
      flesch: 31
     summary: While there is a rise in demand for higher sustainability benefits by stakeholders such as clients, communities and policy makers, the delivery of sustainability benefits from sustainability regeneration projects are yet to meet the expectations of these stakeholders. However, available evidence suggests that the delivery of sustainability projects, such as regeneration projects, which have been designed specifically to promote socio-economic and environmental sustainability benefits has been faced with numerous challenges (Erbey and Erbas, 2017; Winston, 2009).
    keywords: advantage; agenda; akotia; approach; aspects; belloni; benefits; building; business; clg; clients; commitment; communities; community; competitive; construction; construction economics; construction organisations; core; corporate; csr; delivery; development; drivers; driving; economic sustainability; economics; environment; ethical; european; factors; findings; government; important; industry; interview; interviewees; issues; journal; june; legal; legislation; london; major; management; manager; manu; moral; number; objectives; opoku; organisations; performance; potential; practices; practitioners; principles; projects; promotion; regeneration; regeneration construction; regeneration projects; reputation; requirements; research; responsibility; role; sackey; semi; sisaye; social; socio; stakeholders; structured; study; sustainability; sustainability benefits; sustainability drivers; sustainability factors; sustainability objectives; sustainability principles; sustainability projects; sustainable; sustainable construction; sustainable development; sustainable regeneration; table; turcsanyi; united; vol
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        item: #361 of 394
          id: ajceb-7166
      author: Abdul Latiff, Abdul Muhaimin ; Jaapar, Aini; Mat Isa, Che Maznah
       title: Project governance practices in urban public housing projects: a case study of public housing in Malaysia
        date: 2020-11-19
       words: 8718
      flesch: 42
     summary: Besides that, mutual trust, empowerment, and collective decision making are elements of project governance that could be applied in the context of the positive interplay between project actors in public projects. A study by Musa et al. (2015) found the end- user involvement together with good project location and appropriate design significantly related to the success of public housing projects.
    keywords: actors; analysis; application; approach; building; business; case; case study; construction; context; contractor; cost; crucial; data; december; decision; delivery; development; division; document; economics; effective; elements; essential; findings; governance; governance practices; government; groups; guidelines; housing; housing governance; housing project; implementation; income; informant; international; interplay; issues; jaapar; journal; jpn; kpkt; land; latiff; level; local; low; main; making; malaysia; management; ministry; officials; organisation; outcomes; participants; people; perspective; planning; poor; ppr; ppr project; practices; process; project; project actors; project governance; project management; public; public housing; public officials; public projects; research; review; selection; squatters; stakeholders; study; system; target; theory; trust; understanding; urban; urban public; value; vol; works; years; yin
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        item: #362 of 394
          id: ajceb-7191
      author: Opoku, Alex; Akotia, Julius
       title: Special issue: urban regeneration for sustainable development 
        date: 2020-05-09
       words: 2289
      flesch: 30
     summary: Sustainable urban regeneration should deliver city DECLARATION OF CONFLICTING INTEREST Sustainable urban regeneration of historic city centres: lessons learnt.
    keywords: agenda; akotia; building; cities; city; construction; design; development; drivers; economic; environment; factors; goals; important; issue; june; key; london; management; nations; opoku; papers; planning; project; regeneration; research; sdg; sdgs; smart; social; special; stakeholders; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; united; urban; urban regeneration; vol
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        item: #363 of 394
          id: ajceb-7239
      author: Nguyen , Dinh Manh; Ding, Grace; Runeson, Göran 
       title: Energy and economic analysis of environmental upgrading of existing office buildings
        date: 2020-11-18
       words: 9290
      flesch: 44
     summary: Energy and economic analysis of environmental upgrading of existing office buildings. Keywords: Energy upgrading, existing office buildings, energy efficiency, upgrading activities, economic analysis.
    keywords: abdallah; activities; analysis; annual; annual energy; australia; building stock; buildings; buildings construction; case; change; climate; co2; co2 emissions; comfort; commercial; construction; cost; december; design; economics; efficiency upgrading; emissions; energy; energy consumption; energy cost; energy efficiency; energy savings; environmental; environmental upgrading; equipment; et al; green; high; highest; https://doi; hvac; impact; increase; indoor; information; kwh; lam; lighting; literature; maintenance; major; management; nabers; nguyen; office; office buildings; old; operating; paper; performance; period; policy; potential; potential energy; property; rating; reed; refurbishment; research; review; runeson; savings; sector; significant; solar; standards; stars; stock; study; study buildings; sustainability; sustainable; sydney; systems; table; technologies; total; upgrade; upgrading; upgrading activities; upgrading cost; use; vol; wang; water; wilkinson; years
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        item: #364 of 394
          id: ajceb-7359
      author: Osuizugbo, Innocent Chigozie; Oyeyipo, Opeyemi Olanrewaju; Ojelabi, Rapheal Abiodun; Oshodi, Olalekan Shamsideen
       title: Factors Inhibiting Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives Among Construction Companies
        date: 2021-03-03
       words: 7266
      flesch: 37
     summary: However, there are many factors discouraging construction companies to implement or establish a CSR plan. Therefore, the current study seeks to investigate the factors inhibiting CSR initiatives among construction companies within the context of a developing country such as Nigeria.
    keywords: analysis; barriers; benefits; building; business; construction; construction companies; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; construction sector; corporate; corporate social; corruption; csr; csr implementation; csr initiatives; csr programmes; data; development; directors; economics; environmental; expatriate; factors; financial; government; implementation; important; inadequate; indigenous; industry; information; inhibiting; initiatives; international; journal; knowledge; lack; lim; literature; loosemore; management; march; mean; nigeria; osuizugbo; performance; personnel; practices; programmes; questionnaire; research; resources; respondents; responsibility; results; review; sector; shen; social; social responsibility; studies; study; support; survey; table; tendencies; transparency; value; vol; √ √
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        item: #365 of 394
          id: ajceb-7453
      author: Das, Dillip Kumar; Emuze, Fidelis
       title: Design Delays in Building Projects in India: Effects and Remedies 
        date: 2021-02-24
       words: 8892
      flesch: 44
     summary: Similarly, the design-related factors that were the main cause of delay in building projects were: the complexity of project design (DI = 4.25); unclear and inadequate details in drawings (DI = 4.19); mistakes and discrepancies in design documents (DI = 4.15); and delay in the production of design documents (DI = 4.11) as shown in Table 2. The complexity of project design 4.25 0.80 1.548 0.94 Mistakes and discrepancies in design documents 4.15 0.75 1.520 0.94 Delay in the production of design documents 4.11 0.73 1.524 0.93 Unclear and inadequate details in drawings 4.19 0.78 1.524 0.93 Insufficient data collection and survey before design 3.45 0.32 1.400 0.91 Misunderstanding of owner’s requirements by the design engineer 3.39 0.29 1.344 0.91 Quality assurance and control 2.62 0.47 -0.808 0.19 Inconsistency and incomplete technical specifications 2.84 0.52 -0.307 0.38 Insufficient data for design 2.48 0.43 -1.733 0.04 *(Factors were extracted from Aibinu and Odeyinka, 2006; Al-Kharashi and Skitmore, 2009; Bagrecha and Bais, 2017; Doloi, et al., 2012; KPMG and PMI, 2012; Love, et al., 2011; Mäki, 2015; Mali and Warudkar, 2016; Pandya and Malek, 2018; Rivera, Baguec, and Yeom, 2020; Singh, 2010) CAUSAL LOOP DIAGRAMS The Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs) were developed by considering the consultant- and design-related issues in an integrated manner, as illustrated in Figure 2 below.
    keywords: analysis; appointment; building; building projects; business; causal; cause; challenges; changes; communication; competent; complex; complex design; complexity; construction; construction economics; construction projects; consultant; das; data; delay; design; design documents; different; documents; doloi; drawings; dynamics; economics; effective; emuze; emuze construction; engineering; errors; et al; experience; factors; feedback; figure; fraction; han; inadequate; india; influence; influential; interventions; journal; kharashi; kpmg; lack; love; major; management; march; mistakes; model; modelling; mora; mäki; parameters; pena; period; pmi; policy; production; project; project design; project period; rate; related; research; scenarios; schedule; singh; skitmore; stakeholders; study; survey; system; table; time; values; variables; vol; work
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          id: ajceb-7482
      author: Boadu, Elijah Frimpong; Wang, Cynthia Changxin; Sunindijo, Riza Yosia
       title: Challenges for Occupational Health and Safety Enforcement in the Construction Industry in Ghana
        date: 2021-02-24
       words: 11098
      flesch: 47
     summary: However, the challenges confronting OHS enforcement institutions have been underexamined. OHS enforcement institutions have an important role in enforcing OHS legislation in workplaces, providing advice and assisting to resolve H&S issues.
    keywords: accidents; analysis; anova; article; boadu; breaches; building; c h; c o; campaigns; challenges; compliance; constraints; construction; construction economics; construction industry; consultants; contractors; correlation; countries; court; data; diseases; duties; e la; e n; economics; education; effective; enforcement; enforcement institutions; experience; factor; factories; framework; funding; ghana; government; government institutions; h&s; health; ig n; important; inadequate; industry; influence; innovative; inspectors; institutions; internal; international; journal; justice; key; kheni; labour; lack; laws; legislation; level; literature; logistical; management; march; n ce; n s; nigeria; o n; occupational; ohs; ohs enforcement; ohs inspectors; ohs institutions; ohs legislation; ohs regulations; organisation; people; perception; policies; policy; poor; potential; practices; regulations; regulatory; relationship; report; research; respondents; responses; results; safety; sanctions; sites; standards; statistical; strategies; strong; studies; study; sunindijo; system; table; umeokafor; unethical; vol; workers; workplaces; years
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        item: #367 of 394
          id: ajceb-7501
      author: Gurmu, Argaw ; Galluzzo, Anna ; Kite, John
       title: Modelling Customers’ Perception of the Quality of Services Provided by Builders: A Case of Victoria, Australia
        date: 2021-02-24
       words: 11896
      flesch: 60
     summary: Generally, the research found that for volume-builders, customers have the highest satisfaction level for ‘customer service’ and the lowest satisfaction level for ‘plumbing and waterproofing’ work. In Equation 1, OR is an overall rating; SA is rating for site administration, nsa is the number of customers who provided reviews regarding site administration; CS is rating for customer service, ncs is the number of customers who provided reviews regarding customer service; T is rating for timeliness, nt is the number of customers who provided reviews regarding timeliness; SI is rating for structural integrity, nsi is the number of customers who provided reviews regarding structural integrity; PW is rating for plumbing and waterproofing, npw is the number of customers who provided reviews regarding plumbing and waterproofing; EL is rating for electrical and lighting, nel is the number of customers who provided reviews regarding electrical and lighting; F is rating for flooring, nf is the number of customers who provided reviews regarding flooring; and Tr is rating for transparency and ntr is the number of customers who provided reviews regarding customer service.
    keywords: administration; analysis; builders; building; client; construction; consumers; correct; criteria; customer; customer service; data; defects; e le; e s; e w; economics; electrical; engineering; equation; factors; figure; flooring; friedman; g s; gurmu; home; housing; indicators; integrity; journal; le n; lighting; logistic; management; march; model; n e; n g; n o; number; o ri; online; overall; plumbing; probability; product; project; quality; rating; regression; research; reviews; rodríguez; s s; satisfaction; scores; service; significant; site; small; small builders; statistic; step; structural; structural integrity; study; table; test; timeliness; transparency; validation; value; variable; vi e; volume; volume builders; w s; waterproofing; weights; wilcoxon
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        item: #368 of 394
          id: ajceb-7518
      author: Lukhele, Themba; Botha, Brink; Mbanga, Sijekula
       title: Exploring Project Complexity Relations to Scope Changes in Construction Projects: A Case Study of NEC Projects in South Africa
        date: 2021-05-27
       words: 7723
      flesch: 45
     summary: Against this background, this study seeks to explore the relations between project complexities and scope changes in construction projects, with an aim to provide possible precautions and preventive measures to minimize the occurrence of scope changes in construction projects. The three multiple-cases of construction projects were deemed relevant for the exploration of the relations of project complexities and scope changes because of its relatively new construction contract and unique system of change management procedures.
    keywords: +27; activities; africa; analysis; approach; bosch; building; burke; case; changes; cidb; client; coding; complexities; complexity; construction; construction economics; construction management; construction projects; content; contract; contractors; control; cost; data; delivery; design; different; disciplines; drawing; economics; edition; effect; elements; engineering; environmental; et al; execution; factors; findings; framework; industry; international; involved; journal; june; labour; lukhele; management; nec; new; number; order; organizational; participants; performance; procedure; process; project; project complexity; project management; project scope; qualitative; rekveldt; research; result; risk; sampled; scope; scope changes; site; south; stakeholders; study; system; table; team; technical; terms; theoretical; time; uncertainties; understanding; use; vol; work
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        item: #369 of 394
          id: ajceb-7521
      author: Malesev, Simon; Cherry, Michael
       title: Digital and Social Media Marketing - Growing Market Share for Construction SMEs 
        date: 2021-03-03
       words: 8607
      flesch: 44
     summary: However, most also noted that they pursued social media marketing strategies because everyone else was doing it. March 202173 A number of respondents noted that social media marketing strategies were a function performed by staff in addition to their ‘day jobs’, with no dedicated staff hired for the role.
    keywords: abs; activities; advertising; approach; australia; available; awareness; better; brand; building; business; campaigns; challenges; changes; cherry; companies; company; competitive; competitors; construction; construction economics; content; cost; current; customers; data; dec; different; digital; digital marketing; economics; effective; external; facebook; factors; figure; findings; greater; housing; impact; industry; internet; interview; journal; key; lack; larger; malesev; management; march; marketing; marketing strategies; media; media marketing; medium; mix; new; nsw; number; objectives; online; online marketing; outcomes; owners; people; platforms; positive; prices; product; questions; research; residential; respondents; results; sales; share; skills; small; smes; social; social marketing; social media; spend; staff; strategies; strategy; study; techniques; themes; time; traditional; use; value; vol
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        item: #370 of 394
          id: ajceb-7526
      author: Oo, Bee Lan; Lim, Benson Teck Heng
       title: Changes in Job Situations for Women Workforce in Construction during the COVID-19 Pandemic 
        date: 2021-05-27
       words: 12053
      flesch: 52
     summary: Construction businesses have had faced different challenges including cash flow and reduced demand for product or services due to the pandemic. The Australian government measures in response to COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on construction businesses Month (2020) Key measures and impacts on construction businesses March • Introduction of international travel restrictions.
    keywords: 1st; abs; april; aspects; australian; available; barriers; building; businesses; career; caring; challenges; changes; construction; construction economics; construction industry; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; different; e n; earner; earnings; economics; education; employment; exploratory; family; findings; gender; government; group; high; home; hours; impacts; income; industry; international; items; job; journal; june; level; lim; lim construction; literature; location; management; mean; month; need; negative; new; normal; nov; number; office; pandemic; pay; perceptions; period; personal; primary; professional; project; prospects; reasons; reported; research; respondents; responses; responsibilities; restrictions; results; retention; role; sample; significant; situations; social; stage; states; studies; study; survey; table; territories; test; time; total; usual; vol; week; wfh; women; work; workforce; working; workload; workplace; years
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          id: ajceb-7564
      author: Dang, Chau Ngoc; Le-Hoai, Long;  Peansupap, Vachara
       title: Effect of Encouragement-based Management Mechanism on Construction Firms’ Manpower Development: An Empirical Study from Vietnam 
        date: 2021-05-29
       words: 10959
      flesch: 36
     summary: This study attempts to investigate the relationship between encouragement-based management mechanism (EMM) and manpower development (MD) in construction firms and examine the moderating effect of firm size on this relationship by conducting bivariate Pearson correlation and hierarchical multiple regression analyses to analyse empirical data collected from 79 construction firms in Vietnam. The findings could provide construction firms in Vietnam, as well as other developing countries, with a better understanding of the effect of EMM on MD.
    keywords: analysis; beta; bim; building; business; charoenngam; chih; city; civil; collaboration; collaboration encouragement; commitment; construction; construction economics; construction engineering; construction firms; construction industry; construction management; construction projects; constructs; correlation; countries; dang; dang et; data; development; economics; effect; emm; empirical; employees; encouragement; engineering; environment; et al; factors; firm size; good; h2a; h2b; high; hoai; https://doi; human; ideas; incentives; industry; information; innovation; interaction; international; issues; items; job; journal; june; knowledge; lack; large; learning; lee; ling; literature; management; managers; manpower; measuring; mechanism; medium; minh; model; moderated; moderating; multiple; new; nguyen; nguyen et; number; organizational; performance; personnel; positive; pp.1; previous; project; quality; questionnaire; recognition; regression; relationship; research; resource; results; rewards; role; satisfaction; service; significant; size; sized construction; skills; small; social; studies; study; success; support; survey; table; tam; technology; teerajetgul; today; university; variables; vietnam; vietnamese; vol; δr2
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        item: #372 of 394
          id: ajceb-7593
      author: Fehan, Hassan; Aigbogun, Osaro
       title: Influence of Internal Organizational Factors and Institutional Pressures on Construction Firms' Performance
        date: 2021-05-26
       words: 7906
      flesch: 31
     summary: In that light, growing concern about the effect of certain internal organizational factors (leadership style, team competency and skills, and effective communication) on construction firm performance has reignited interest in the questions of various literature (Adeleke, Bahaudin and Kamaruddeen, 2017; Jin, 2018; Onana, 2018). Literature Review CONCEPTUALIZATION OF CONSTRUCTION FIRM PERFORMANCE Over the years, several construction firms have shown an imperative for identifying vital areas of their business model that are crucial to their performance.
    keywords: aigbogun; aigbogun construction; analysis; approach; available; bootstrap; bsc; building; business; challenges; coefficient; communication; companies; competency; confidence; construction; construction economics; construction firm; construction industry; construction performance; data; discriminant; economics; effect; effective; endogenous; engineering; environmental; factors; fehan; figure; findings; firm performance; firms; high; hypothesis; impact; indirect; industry; influence; institutional; institutional pressures; internal; internal organizational; international; journal; june; latent; leadership; lee; level; literature; management; measurement; measures; mediation; mediator; medium; model; organizational; organizational factors; organizational performance; original; outcomes; partial; path; performance; performance outcomes; pls; positive; pressures; project; relationship; reliability; research; results; sample; significant; skills; social; standard; structural; studies; study; style; syria; table; team; total; understanding; university; validity; value; variables; variance; vol
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          id: ajceb-7609
      author: Dodanwala, Tharindu; Shrestha, Pooja; Santoso, Djoen San
       title: Role Conflict Related Job Stress among Construction Project Professionals: The Moderating Role of Age and Organization Tenure 
        date: 2021-12-03
       words: 8746
      flesch: 52
     summary: H3: Organization tenure moderates the effect of role conflict on job stress such that the effect of role conflict job stress is lower for employees with longer tenure. Specifically, the literature does not fully explain the positioning of age and organization tenure on the relationship between role conflict and job stress.
    keywords: age; analysis; authors; ave; building; calisir; chan; chen; conflict; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction project; constructs; control; data; december; degree; demands; dodanwala; economics; education; effect; employees; engineering; et al; expectations; experience; factor; fit; gender; gumussoy; high; impact; industry; intention; interaction; international; iskin; job stress; journal; lanka; leung; level; lien; lin; literature; male; management; model; moderating; new; organization; organization tenure; parties; people; performance; physiological; present; professionals; project; psychological; regression; related; relationship; reliability; requests; research; respondents; results; role; role conflict; sample; santoso; scale; shrestha; sri; statistics; stress; studies; study; table; tenure; turnover; validity; variables; vol; work; workplace; young; yuen
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        item: #374 of 394
          id: ajceb-7628
      author: Zighan, Saad; Abualqumboz, Moheeb
       title: A Project Life-Cycle Readiness Approach to Manage Construction Waste in Jordan
        date: 2021-08-15
       words: 10479
      flesch: 42
     summary: Therefore, this study relies on the project management approach to analyze construction waste management across the phases of the project lifecycle to improve the management of construction waste by outlining causes for waste and strategies to tackle them at each phase along the project lifecycle. In 2016, the EU generated 2,538 million tons of waste, of which 25%- 30% was construction waste.
    keywords: abualqumboz; abualqumboz construction; actions; activities; ajayi; akinade; analysis; approach; architects; building; causes; client; communication; concept; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; construction project; construction waste; contractors; critical; data; definition; demolition; deployment; design; design phase; different; early; economics; enablers; engineering; environmental; example; factors; findings; framework; high; holistic; industry; instance; international; interviews; jordan; journal; key; knowledge; lack; lifecycle; low; main; management; manager; materials; methods; mitigating; modern; nonphysical; onsite; organization; osmani; paper; participants; phase; physical; plan; planning; poor; practices; proactive; production; project; project design; project lifecycle; project management; project manager; project project; project stakeholders; project waste; readiness; recycling; regulatory; requirements; research; resources; review; scope; september; sources; stakeholders; strategies; studies; study; support; sustainable; system; table; technology; time; transition; types; value; vol; waste; waste causes; waste management; waste minimization; work; yuan; zighan
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        item: #375 of 394
          id: ajceb-7634
      author: Aghimien, Douglas Omoregie; Ikuabe, Matthew; Aigbavboa, Clinton; Oke, Ayodeji; Shirinda, Wealthy
       title: Unravelling the Factors Influencing Construction Organisations’ Intention to Adopt Big Data Analytics in South Africa 
        date: 2021-08-15
       words: 9880
      flesch: 45
     summary: While several studies have emerged on Big Data adoption, challenges, benefits and diffusion with other digital technologies within the construction industry (Bilal, et al., 2016; Koseleva and Ropaite, 2017; Moynihan, et al., 2017; Lu, et al., 2018), not much as surfaced on the factors that might influence construction organisations intention to adopt this beneficial technology. To determine the factors with greater impact on construction organisations intention to adopt BDA, Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation (FSE), an application fuzzy set theory (Zhao, Hwang, and Gao, 2016), was adopted.
    keywords: acceptance; adoption; africa; aghimien; aigbavboa; analysis; analytics; approach; availability; available; background; bda; behavioural; better; big; big data; building; business; cabrerasánchez; challenges; change; cidb; competitors; conditions; conference; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction organisations; countries; data; decision; delivery; development; different; digital; dimension; easy; economics; effort; engineering; environment; equation; et al; evaluation; expectancy; factors; function; future; fuzzy; high; impact; industry; influence; information; intention; international; issues; johannesburg; journal; level; low; main; management; mean; membership; model; new; oke; organisations; organisations intention; overall; performance; project; questionnaire; research; resistance; respondents; risk; section; september; service; set; significant; social; south; studies; study; synthetic; table; technologies; technology; test; theory; understanding; unified; university; usage; use; utaut; variables; venkatesh; view; villarejoramos; vol; weighting; years
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          id: ajceb-7642
      author: Stefańska, Anna; Cygan, Marta; Batte, Kinga; Pietrzak, Joanna 
       title: Application of Timber and Wood-based Materials in Architectural Design using Multi-objective Optimisation Tools
        date: 2021-08-15
       words: 7419
      flesch: 40
     summary: Multivariate optimisations serve to minimise the production time or the amount of used material and the applied technology. Influence of environmental requirements (design according to international organisations’ strictures related to Sustainable Development), technological development of wood- based construction materials (micro- laminated and CLT), and development of modern tools (generative software, structural analysis, computer- controlled fabrication) resulted in a return of interest in timber and wood- based materials and their reuse as effective solutions (e.g., in high- rise buildings, large- surface coverings or freeform complex geometries) (Lara- Bocanegra, et al., 2014).
    keywords: additive; aesthetic; analysis; applications; arches; architects; architectural; area; article; author; basic; building; canopy; carbon; catenary; change; characteristics; circle; clt; cnc; components; composites; conditions; conference; construction; construction economics; contemporary; continuous; courtesy; design; designing; development; digital; dixit; economics; eds; efficiency; elements; engineering; et al; fabrication; factor; fibre; figure; folding; forms; freeform; geometries; geometry; glulam; inspiration; interdisciplinary; international; joints; journal; kengo; kuma; laminated; loadbearing; main; manufacturing; material; methods; multiobjective; natural; nature; need; new; objects; optimisation; origami; panels; paraboloid; patterns; pavilion; polymers; possible; primary; printing; proceedings; process; research; results; review; segment; september; shape; shell; significant; small; stefańska; structures; study; subtractive; sustainable; systems; table; technical; techniques; technological; technologies; technology; timber; tools; total; traditional; unique; unitless; university; use; variants; vol; weight; wood; woodbased; wooden; work
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        item: #377 of 394
          id: ajceb-7643
      author: Oo, Bee Lan; Lim, Teck Heng Benson; Zhang, Yixi
       title: Women Workforce in Construction during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Strategies 
        date: 2021-12-03
       words: 10565
      flesch: 46
     summary: For example, the strategies of flexible working arrangements, breaking out work time and personal time and self-scheduling have been adopted by the respondents in response to challenges associated with changes in work location and working hours. The strategies adopted to overcome the challenges associated with the changes in the respondents’ job situations during the pandemic Strategies Freq. n* Changes in employment status Looking for new job 3 Changed job 2 Negotiated redundancy 1 Total 6 Changes in work location Increased visual communication 13 Dedicated working space 7 Working space setup 6 Maintain strong and consistent connections with project team 5 Flexible working arrangements 4 Breaking out work time and personal time 4 Self-scheduling 3 Learning new technologies and took on the opportunity for skills development 3 Self-adaptation 2 Balancing caring responsibilities and work 2 Organised virtual work socialisation 2 Practising stress reduction techniques 1 Total 52 Changes in working hours Self-scheduling 5 Flexible working arrangements 4 Budgeting expenses 4 Breaking out work time and personal time 3 Practising stress reduction techniques 3 Increased visual communication 1 Self-adaptation 1 Learning new technologies and took on the opportunity for skills development 1 Total 22 *
    keywords: arrangements; australian; available; balance; barriers; building; businesses; career; caring; categories; challenges; changes; children; communication; construction; construction economics; construction industry; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; december; development; different; e.g.; early; economics; employees; employment; et al; evidence; experiences; family; findings; flexible; francis; future; gender; government; home; hours; impacts; industry; interactions; job; journal; lack; life; lim; literature; location; lockdowns; management; meetings; new; normal; office; opinions; overworked; pandemic; parenting; people; personal; present; professional; questions; research; resource; respective; respondents; response; responsibilities; self; setting; situation; social; space; strategies; studies; study; sudden; support; survey; table; team; time; total; vol; wfh; women; women workforce; work; work location; workforce; working; workplace
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        item: #378 of 394
          id: ajceb-7647
      author: Khalil, Aussama; Rathnasinghe, Akila Pramodh; Kulatunga, Udayangani
       title: Challenges to the Implementation of Sustainable Construction Practices in Libya
        date: 2021-08-15
       words: 9485
      flesch: 37
     summary: Challenges for the Implementation of Sustainable Construction Practices in Libya Aussama Khalil1, Akila Pramodh Rathnasinghe2,*, Udayangani Kulatunga3 1 School of the Built Environment, Salford University, United Kingdom 2 Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, United Kingdom 3 Department of Building Economics, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka *Corresponding author: Akila Pramodh Rathnasinghe, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle- upon- However, applying sustainable construction practices, influenced by the knowledge and involvement of all individuals involved in the industry, will require a more in- depth understanding of the sustainability concept for successful application (Omardin, Abidin and Ali, 2015).
    keywords: analysis; application; aspects; awareness; building; capital; challenges; civil; clients; companies; component; concept; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction practices; construction projects; context; conventional; costs; countries; data; design; designers; development; different; economics; effective; engineering; environment; factor; financial; findings; government; green; high; higher; implementation; importance; industry; initial; interviews; investment; issues; journal; key; khalil; kmo; knowledge; lack; leadership; legislation; libya; libyan construction; main; major; management; materials; matrix; method; new; organisations; participants; plot; policies; policy; practices; principles; process; products; professionals; projects; questionnaire; regulations; research; resources; respondents; scree; sector; september; significant; skills; social; stage; stakeholders; steering; study; successful; survey; sustainability; sustainable building; sustainable construction; sustainable development; sustainable practices; table; technical; technologies; technology; understanding; university; use; value; vol
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        item: #379 of 394
          id: ajceb-7653
      author: Aslam, Mughees; Gao, Zhili; Smith, Gary
       title: Development of Lean Approaching Sustainability Tools (LAST) Matrix for Achieving Integrated Lean and Sustainable Construction 
        date: 2021-08-15
       words: 10324
      flesch: 41
     summary: The main problem causing these constraints is that most SC practices are implemented without aligning with construction management processes (Sourani and Sohail, 2005). Therefore, this study focuses on exploring the potential for LC to overcome SC challenges.
    keywords: analysis; aslam; available; awareness; barriers; building; category; challenges; change; collaboration; conference; consideration; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; cost; customer; delivery; design; development; drivers; economics; energy; engineering; environment; et al; fear; flow; focus; goals; government; green; helpful; high; implementation; improvement; industry; initial; integrated; integration; international; involvement; journal; knowledge; lack; lc practices; lc principles; lc tools; lean; lean construction; literature; management; material; matrix; new; objectives; optimize; output; papers; people; planning; practices; principles; process; processes; production; project; quality; requirements; research; review; safety; sc challenges; september; stakeholders; status; struggling; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable construction; system; systematic; table; target; techniques; time; tools; total; university; use; value; variabilities; waste; workflow; working
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        item: #380 of 394
          id: ajceb-7657
      author: Demirkesen, Sevilay; Sadikoglu, Emel; Jayamanne, Eshan
       title: Assessing Psychological Safety in Lean Construction Projects in the United States
        date: 2021-08-15
       words: 9333
      flesch: 43
     summary: Further, psychological safety and construction safety are studied and proposed to be positively related. The second hypothesis proposed that psychological safety promotes construction safety.
    keywords: accidents; analysis; annual; ballard; behaviour; building; climate; communication; companies; concerns; conference; construction; construction economics; construction employees; construction industry; construction projects; construction safety; context; continuous; culture; data; demirkesen; economics; edmondson; employees; environment; errors; et al; experience; findings; group; hand; health; help; howell; human; hypothesis; implementation; important; improvement; industry; information; international; interviewees; items; journal; leadership; lean; lean construction; lean implementation; learning; level; literature; main; management; members; method; model; occupational; organizational; people; performance; practices; previous; problems; proceedings; projects; psychological safety; qualitative; question; relationship; research; respect; review; role; safety climate; safety management; sample; september; status; studies; study; team; terms; traditional; u.s; value; vol; work; worker
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        item: #381 of 394
          id: ajceb-7660
      author: Mat Isa, Siti Sarah ; Zainul Abidin, Nazirah
       title: Eco-innovation Adoption in Malaysian Contractor Firms: Understanding the Components and Drivers
        date: 2021-08-15
       words: 11896
      flesch: 39
     summary: Towards environmental sustainability adoption in construction firms : An empirical analysis of market orientation and organisational innovativeness impacts. The survey revealed that the level of EI adoption in contractor firms is still at a moderate pace.
    keywords: abidin; abidin construction; adoption; analysis; bamgbade; better; bohari; bossle; building; business; cai; capabilities; cheng; cleaner; clients; competitive; components; construction; construction economics; construction industry; consultants; contractor; contractor firms; crucial; davia; del; demand; development; drivers; ecoinnovation; economics; ecoproducts; efficiency; ei adoption; ei components; ei practices; empirical; employees; energy; environmental; external; factors; fernando; firms; grade; green; hazarika; horbach; hypothesis; impacts; implementation; improvements; industry; innovation; internal; journal; kamaruddeen; kesidou; knowledge; level; literature; malaysia; management; manufacturing; market; materials; mean; morenomondéjar; natural; nawi; needs; new; operations; organisational; performance; practices; process; process ei; processes; product; product ei; production; project; quality; r&d; rammer; regulations; relationship; rennings; requirements; research; resources; results; review; september; services; sheu; significant; studies; study; support; survey; sustainability; sustainable; table; technological; technology; triguero; understanding; value; vol; wah; waste; yang; zhang
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        item: #382 of 394
          id: ajceb-7681
      author: Ahmed, Vian; Saboor, Sara; Ahmed Almarzooqi , Fatima ; Ahmed Alshamsi , Hessa ;  Abdalla Alketbi , Mariam;  Ahmed Al marei , Fatema
       title: A Comparative Study of Energy Performance in Educational Buildings in the UAE
        date: 2021-08-15
       words: 11239
      flesch: 46
     summary: These buildings have been defined by their adoption of advanced technologies and materials, which have allowed the Building Sector to reduce the burning of fossil fuels and generate energy from clean resources resulting in a positive impact on the environment and the decrease in GHG emissions, while leaning towards the development of more energy efficient buildings (Marszal, et al., 2011). As such, buildings can be classified into; conventional buildings, sustainable buildings or Zero Energy Buildings (ZEBs) (Kamar, Abd Hamid and Azman, 2011; Kamali, Hewage and Sadiq, 2019).
    keywords: addition; administration; ahmed; annual; available; awareness; buildings; business; calculated; campus; carbon; centre; change; climate; co2; co2 emission; commercial; concept; construction; conventional; csc; development; different; dubai; economics; educational buildings; efficient; electricity; electricity consumption; emission; end; energy; energy buildings; energy consumption; energy efficiency; energy performance; energy score; energy use; engineering; engineering building; environment; equation; et al; eui; factors; figure; gcc; ghg; global; government; green; higher; impact; important; increase; initiatives; issues; literature; major; management; net; number; order; participants; percent; practices; renewable; research; residential; results; score; sector; september; service; sharjah; source; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable energy; table; targeted; temperature; terms; total; types; uae; united; university; users; vol; years; zebs
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          id: ajceb-7829
      author: Raja Mohd Noor, Raja Nor Husna ; Che Ibrahim, Che Khairil Izam; Belayutham, Sheila
       title: Making Sense of Multi-Actor Social Collaboration in Building Information Modelling Level 2 Projects: A Case in Malaysia 
        date: 2021-12-03
       words: 13058
      flesch: 32
     summary: Received: 22/07/2021; Revised: 14/11/2021; Accepted: 16/11/2021; Published: 20/12/2021 Abstract Despite the diversity of thinking among the scholars on building information modelling (BIM) collaboration, there is a paucity of studies that capture the dimension of social collaboration in BIM projects. This study attempts to develop a comprehensive understanding on the key attributes of multi-actor social collaboration in BIM projects through the experience of practitioners in BIM-Level 2 construction project.
    keywords: actor; actor social; approach; architectural; arrangement; assessment; attributes; awareness; behaviour; bep; best; bim; bim collaboration; bim knowledge; bim level; bim manager; bim project; blay; bsi; building; change; che; clear; collaboration; commitment; common; communication; construction; construction economics; context; continuous; contractual; coordination; critical; culture; data; december; decision; delivery; design; disciplines; diverse; economics; edwards; eir; engineering; environment; et al; experience; experts; findings; following; france; fundamental; guideline; highest; hosseini; ibrahim; implementation; important; individual; industry; influence; information; interaction; international; interoperability; ipd; journal; kas; key; knowledge; leadership; level; main; making; malaysia; management; manager; manual; mean; mensah; modelling; models; multi; noor; oraee; order; parties; percent; percentage; platform; practise; principles; process; project; rating; related; relational; requirements; research; resources; respondents; roles; shared; sharing; skills; social; social collaboration; software; standard; strategy; study; success; support; survey; table; team; technology; tools; training; tuuli; understanding; use; vol; working
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        item: #384 of 394
          id: ajceb-7835
      author: Yap, Jeffrey Boon Hui; Hew, Queennie Lip Tin; Skitmore, Martin
       title: Student Learning Experiences in Higher Education: Investigating a Quantity Surveying Programme in Malaysia 
        date: 2022-03-06
       words: 12067
      flesch: 44
     summary: 2 01 0) (A sh ra f, O sm a n a n d R a ta n , 2 01 6) (F a jč ík ov á a n d U rb a n co vá , 2 01 9) (C lo ss , M a h a t a n d I m m s, 2 02 1) A Course factor A1 Course content √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ A2 Programme flexibility √ √ √ √ √ √ √ A3 Activities and workshop availability √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ A4 Quality of study material √ √ √ √ √ A5 Counselling services √ √ √ √ √ √ √ B Personal factor B1 Peer relationships √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ B2 Living arrangements √ √ √ B3 Self-evaluations √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ B4 Family encouragement √ √ B5 Financial considerations √ √ √ √ √ √ √ C Lecturer factor C1 Lecturer’s academic experiences √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ C2 Lecturer’s clarity √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ C3 Lecturer’s interpersonal and communication skills √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ C4 Lecturer’s preparedness √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ C5 Lecturer’s responsiveness √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ D Institution factor D1 Classroom environment √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ D2 Computer and lab facilities √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ D3 Recreation facilities √ √ √ √ √ D4 Library services √ √ √ √ √ √ √ D5 Ancillary services √ √ √ Yap, et al. Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 22, No. 1 March 20224 questionnaire, which is economical and practical for a large sample (Hair, et al., 2019). © 2022 by the author(s).
    keywords: academic; activities; analysis; aspects; associated; attributes; availability; building; burton; business; clarity; classroom; communication; competencies; connections; considerations; construction; construction economics; content; course; curriculum; data; design; development; e n; e s; economics; education; effective; engineering; environment; et al; evaluation; expectations; experiences; external; face; facilities; factor; faculty; field; financial; good; graduate; group; hair; hei; heis; higher; higher education; impact; important; industry; influence; institution; integration; interest; international; interpersonal; journal; kamardeen; knowledge; learning; learning experiences; lecturer; level; life; m e; malaysia; management; march; materials; mcleay; n d; n s; need; o n; outcomes; overall; peer; perceptions; performance; physical; positive; practical; practice; private; problem; process; professional; programme; project; quality; quantity; questionnaire; real; related; research; role; satisfaction; services; significant; skills; social; statistical; strategies; student experiences; student learning; student satisfaction; students; studies; study; subject; support; surveying; surveyors; table; teaching; technical; technology; time; total; undergraduates; underlying; understanding; university; variance; vol; woodruff; workshop; wrenn; yap; year; yusoff; √ √
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        item: #385 of 394
          id: ajceb-7854
      author: Sarhan, Saad; Pretlove, Stephen
       title: Lean and Sustainable Construction: State of the Art and Future Directions
        date: 2021-08-21
       words: 5675
      flesch: 32
     summary: Toward a holistic view on lean sustainable construction: A literature review. Lean construction, building information modelling and sustainability, ERACOBUILD Workshop, Malmö, Sweden, pp.1- 8. Murray, A., Skene, K. and Haynes, K., 2017.
    keywords: adoption; approaches; building; case; challenges; climate; concept; construction; construction sector; countries; delivery; design; development; different; drivers; economics; efforts; emissions; empirical; energy; environmental; findings; focus; future; global; important; initiatives; issue; knowledge; lean; lean construction; literature; lps; management; materials; new; papers; performance; perspective; potential; practices; pretlove; process; production; productivity; project; psychological; research; review; safety; sarhan; sector; september; significant; special; strategies; studies; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable construction; techniques; tools; topic; use; value; vol; waste; wasteminimisation
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        item: #386 of 394
          id: ajceb-7936
      author: Malla, Vijayeta; Delhi, Venkata Santosh Kumar
       title: Determining Interconnectedness of Barriers to Interface Management in Large Construction Projects
        date: 2022-06-06
       words: 15004
      flesch: 39
     summary: Influencing factors for project interface management. In addition, such exercises can improve the coordination among participants in construction projects.
    keywords: adoption; aid; analysis; approach; arabia; assaf; axis; barriers; building; c.t; case; category; causes; chain; change; characteristics; chen; civil; communication; construction; construction economics; construction engineering; construction interface; construction management; construction projects; contractor; contractual; coordination; cost; critical; cultural; current; data; delays; delhi; delhi construction; delivery; dependent; design; developed; development; direction; driving; economics; effective; elements; engineering; entry; et al; experience; experts; facilities; factors; fct; figure; final; framework; frequent; fuzzy; general; haas; hammad; hierarchical; https://doi; identification; imbs; impact; implementation; importance; improper; incentives; industry; influence; information; infrastructure; initial; inputs; institute; integrated; interactions; interdependencies; interface; interface management; international; international journal; interpretive; ism; issues; journal; june; kim; knowledge; lack; large; large construction; layered; layers; lee; leg; level; literature; local; malla; management; management barriers; manager; matrix; methods; micmac; misaligned; model; modelling; multi; new; orders; owner; packaging; pairwise; parameters; performance; phase; planning; possess; power; practitioners; problems; process; processes; project; project management; project stakeholders; protocols; questionnaire; reachability; regulatory; related; relationship; research; review; rii; risk; saudi; scale; schedule; science; senior; set; significant; site; skills; specific; srk; ssim; stakeholders; step; structural; studies; study; sub; successful; supply; survey; system; table; technology; theory; tier; value; variables; vol; work; wpd; years
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          id: ajceb-8015
      author: Oke, Ayodeji ; Atofarati, John; Bello, Sherifat
       title: Awareness of 3D Printing for Sustainable Construction in an Emerging Economy
        date: 2022-06-06
       words: 7905
      flesch: 50
     summary: The study reveals that the professionals in the construction industry of the emerging economy have low awareness of 3D printing technology, therefore its practices in the construction industry of the study area are significantly low. More awareness of 3D printing technology should be raised by bodies shouldered with management and regulation of the construction industry to increase professionals' DECLARATION OF CONFLICTING INTEREST
    keywords: 3d printing; additive; alpha; analysis; area; article; automation; awareness; bartlett; building; ceramic; component; concrete; construction; construction economics; construction industry; contour; correlation; crafting; cronbach; data; deposition; design; development; digital; digital construction; dispenser; economics; economy; et al; fabrication; factor; flow; industry; information; international; item; journal; june; language; layer; level; light; low; manufacturing; material; mean; method; modelling; new; nigeria; oke; platform; powder; printers; printing; printing awareness; printing technology; processing; production; professionals; prototyping; rapid; research; respondents; result; review; sample; scale; shape; standard; stereolithography; stick; study; survey; sustainable; sustainable construction; table; tay; technique; technologies; technology; teizer; tessellation; test; time; total; use; variance; vol; wang; wasp; years
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          id: ajceb-8052
      author: Manivannan , J; Loganathan, Santhosh; T J, Kamalanabhan ; N. Kalidindi, Satyanarayana 
       title: Investigating the Relationship between Occupational Stress and Work-Life Balance among Indian Construction Professionals 
        date: 2022-06-06
       words: 11771
      flesch: 41
     summary: Similarly, from Table 7, hypothesis H03 is partially supported, and it can be concluded that there is a significant and negative relationship between work nature stressors and WEPL and there is no significant relationship between work time stressors and WEPL. Work stress has been widely linked with adverse effects on employees’ psychological and physical well-being in many occupations (Kinman and Jones, 2005).
    keywords: analysis; australia; average; bowen; building; categories; causes; component; conflict; construction; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; construction professionals; construction project; context; demands; demographic; different; economics; edwards; employees; engineering; enhancement; et al; exploratory; factors; family; findings; health; high; hours; https://doi; hypothesis; inadequate; indian; indian construction; industry; infrastructure; initiatives; interference; international; issues; items; job; job stress; journal; june; kyei; lack; leung; level; life; life balance; life enhancement; life interference; life life; lingard; major; management; managers; manivannan; multiple; nature; occupational; occupational stress; onsite; organisation; osei; personal life; plew; pliw; policy; position; positive; present; professionals; project; relationship; research; respondents; results; role; scale; significant; skitmore; social; sources; stress; stressors; studies; study; survey; table; technology; tijani; time; variables; variance; vol; wepl; wipl; work; work enhancement; work interference; work life; work nature; work overload; work stressors; work time; workers; working
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          id: ajceb-8163
      author: Domínguez-Herrera, Marta Mª; González-Morales, Olga; González-Díaz, Eduardo
       title: Social Responsibility of Construction Company as Strategy for Sustainability in Island Territories
        date: 2023-07-12
       words: 11698
      flesch: 50
     summary: Darko, et al. (2019) reviewed the practices adopted by the stakeholders of construction companies in countries such as the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, India and China, and confirmed that, at the end of the 20th century, the construction sector took CSR into account and, as the socio- environmentally responsible vision spreads, the interest of the agents involved in the construction process and of the researchers in the sector grows. The methodology employed in this research has also been used by Zhang, Oo and Lim (2022), who identify and classify the practices and perceived benefits of CSR in construction companies using an online questionnaire and subsequently analyses the perception of CSR through the social networks of these companies.
    keywords: actions; affirmative; analysis; aspects; available; building; business; case; castka; commission; companies; company; construction; construction companies; construction economics; construction sector; contribution; corporate; corporate social; criteria; csr; csr strategy; ct io; cycle; dependent; development; dimension; domínguez; e n; economics; energy; environmental; et al; european; factor; following; future; future c; g y; gonzález; group; herrera; impact; importance; indicator; io n; journal; july; life; lim; management; materials; ministerio; model; n se; n st; n y; necessary; new; o n; past; place; practices; process; products; public; quality; questions; r st; related; research; resources; responses; responsibility; responsible; results; review; ru ct; sector; sensitivity; significant; social; social responsibility; spain; strategies; strategy; study; sustainability; sustainable; table; tenerife; united; use; variables; vol; water; work; y c; zhang
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        item: #390 of 394
          id: ajceb-8390
      author: Debs, Luciana; Hubbard, Bryan
       title: Gathering and disseminating lessons learned in construction companies to support knowledge management
        date: 2023-07-12
       words: 10836
      flesch: 40
     summary: Management of project knowledge and experiences.  Development of a methodology for live capture and reuse of project knowledge in construction.
    keywords: aec; approach; arif; authors; building; carrillo; challenges; companies; company; completion; construction; construction companies; construction economics; construction industry; construction management; current; data; debs; delivery; design; different; dissemination; economics; employees; engineering; evaluations; figure; findings; focus; focused; fuller; generation; hubbard; hubbard construction; hwang; industry; information; interviews; issues; journal; july; knowledge; knowledge management; kulonda; lack; learning; lessons; management; meetings; methods; months; nature; outside; participants; performance; phase; post; present; previous; procedures; process; professionals; project; project evaluations; question; related; research; researchers; respondents; results; ruikar; saini; sharing; size; stakeholders; survey; table; tacit; team; time; topics; type; value; vol; years; yohe
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        item: #391 of 394
          id: ajceb-8441
      author: None
       title: Health and Safety Challenges Among Post-Disaster Reconstruction Workers
        date: None
       words: 13491
      flesch: 51
     summary: Also, the study opens a door for future research efforts on reconstruction workers health and safety. However, as specified in the above section, reconstruction workers health and safety has not been studied thoroughly in the disaster risk management literature.
    keywords: affected; albert; analysis; area; attention; available; bhaktapur; building; case; civil; community; construction management; construction safety; context; contractors; conventional; data; debris; department; design; different; disaster; disaster reconstruction; discussion; distraction; earthquake; economics; efforts; employers; engineering; engineers; environment; etc; experience; factors; faster; figure; financial; findings; future; ganapati; gap; general; gorkha; government; hazardous; hazards; health; help; houses; housing; impact; importance; international; interviews; involvement; issues; journal; knowledge; lack; literature; management; mental; mental health; natural; necessary; need; nepal; number; officials; order; participants; participation; pdr; people; performance; planning; possible; post; post disaster; potential; practice; pradhananga; previous; process; projects; proper; reconstruction; reconstruction efforts; reconstruction workers; recovery; research; resilience; resources; risk; safety; safety challenges; safety equipment; safety risks; safety training; sites; situation; stakeholders; studies; study; supervisors; support; time; training; uddin; understanding; unskilled; unskilled workers; waste; wellbeing; workers; workers health; workforce; working; workplace; works; years
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        item: #392 of 394
          id: ajceb-8532
      author: Suriyanon, Natee; Sutheerawatthana, Pitch; Kaewmoracharoen, Manop; Klansai, Veera
       title: The utility and value of contract terms: a case study on interior contractors
        date: 2023-07-12
       words: 9203
      flesch: 55
     summary: Contract term values and its cumulative population The value of the period to make a payment term to the interior contractor ranges from 2.00–11.67 % of the proposed price, the average value being 3.78% of it. The Utility and Value of Contract Terms:
    keywords: advance; advance payment; analysis; attributes; average; average utility; building; calculated; condition; conjoint; construction; construction contract; contract; contract price; contract term; contractors; data; design; economics; engineering; group; importance; interim; interim payment; interior; journal; july; level; management; maximum; number; owner; payment; payment term; period; population; possible; price; price condition; project owner; project price; projects; proposal; ranking; ratio; reduction; research; results; round; sample; shopping; standard; study; superior; suriyanon; table; term; time; total; total utility; utility; utility ratio; utility value; value; vol; work
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        item: #393 of 394
          id: ajceb-8707
      author: None
       title: Construction Economics and Building; A Rare Breed with Fine Pedigree
        date: None
       words: 1355
      flesch: 46
     summary: Whilst the discipline of construction management has arguably existed for 60 or more years, it is only in recent years that the number of associated quality academic journals has risen much above a handful. The last 20 years have seen something of a revolution in the way academic journals are published and distributed, with the decline of the printed hard copy and the rise of e-journals.
    keywords: academic; access; authors; breed; brewer; building; ceb; construction; construction economics; economics; editorial; fine; journals; pedigree; publication; quality; rare; research; reviewers; time; years
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        item: #394 of 394
          id: ajceb-8711
      author: Brewer, Graham
       title: Lights under a Bushel: a digest of highly cited papers from Construction Economics and Building
        date: 2023-07-14
       words: 2702
      flesch: 33
     summary: The results will help benchmark the current state of lean construction implementation, which will enable the construction industry to identify strategies to implement lean construction in Saudi Arabia in accordance with their needs and project goals, to achieve better productivity. org/10.5130/AJCEB.v15i3.4608 Brewer Construction Economics and Building, Vol. 23, No. 1/2 July 202398 Lean Construction Implementation in the Saudi Arabian Construction Industry Jamil Ghazi Sarhan1, Bo Xia2, Sabrina Fawzia1, Azharul Karim2 1 School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Australia 1 Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Australia au Abstract The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has witnessed a huge increase in construction during the last two decades.
    keywords: abstract; adoption; analysis; architecture; australia; bim; brewer; building; career; challenges; citation; construction; construction economics; construction industry; development; digest; economics; engineering; environment; factors; findings; implementation; industry; information; infrastructure; july; keywords; lean; lean construction; level; management; modelling; papers; performance; project; research; safety; saudi; school; smes; study; success; technology; university; vol; women
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