Muhammad Bilal's Outputs (55)

Risk mitigation in PFI/PPP project finance: A framework model for financiers’ bankability criteria (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose: Earlier studies on risk evaluation in private finance initiative and public private partnerships (PFI/PPP) projects have focussed more on quantitative approaches despite increasing call for contextual understanding of the bankability of risk... Read More about Risk mitigation in PFI/PPP project finance: A framework model for financiers’ bankability criteria.

Design for deconstruction using a circular economy approach: Barriers and strategies for improvement (2019)
Journal Article

This study explores the current practices of Design for Deconstruction (DfD) as a strategy for achieving circular economy. Keeping in view the opportunities accruable from DfD, a review of the literature was carried out and six focus group interviews... Read More about Design for deconstruction using a circular economy approach: Barriers and strategies for improvement.

Deep learning models for health and safety risk prediction in power infrastructure projects (2019)
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Inappropriate management of Health and safety (H&S) risk in power infrastructure projects can result in occupational accidents and equipment damage. Accidents at work have detrimental effects on workers, company, and the general public. Despite the a... Read More about Deep learning models for health and safety risk prediction in power infrastructure projects.

Big data analytics system for costing power transmission projects (2019)
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© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers. Inaccurate cost estimates have significant impacts on the final cost of power transmission projects and erode profits. Methods for cost estimation have been investigated thoroughly, but they are not used wi... Read More about Big data analytics system for costing power transmission projects.

Critical success factors for ensuring bankable completion risk in PFI/PPP megaprojects (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers. This study investigates project financiers' perspectives on the bankability of completion risk in private finance initiative and public-private partnership (PFI/PPP) megaprojects. Using a mixed methodology... Read More about Critical success factors for ensuring bankable completion risk in PFI/PPP megaprojects.

Robotics and automated systems in construction: Understanding industry-specific challenges for adoption (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Authors The construction industry is a major economic sector, but it is plagued with inefficiencies and low productivity. Robotics and automated systems have the potential to address these shortcomings; however, the level of adoption in th... Read More about Robotics and automated systems in construction: Understanding industry-specific challenges for adoption.

Investigating profitability performance of construction projects using big data: A project analytics approach (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors The construction industry generates different types of data from the project inception stage to project delivery. This data comes in various forms and formats which surpass the data management, integration and analysis capabilities... Read More about Investigating profitability performance of construction projects using big data: A project analytics approach.

Stimulating the attractiveness of PFI/PPPs using public sector guarantees (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose: Although the UK Guarantee Scheme for Infrastructures (UKGSI) was introduced in 2012 to address the huge financing gap for critical infrastructures, PFI sponsors have so far guaranteed only few projects. Many stakeholders in the project finan... Read More about Stimulating the attractiveness of PFI/PPPs using public sector guarantees.

Disassembly and deconstruction analytics system (D-DAS) for construction in a circular economy (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Despite the relevance of building information modelling for simulating building performance at various life cycle stages, Its use for assessing the end-of-life impacts is not a common practice. Even though the global sustainability and circula... Read More about Disassembly and deconstruction analytics system (D-DAS) for construction in a circular economy.

Design optimisation using convex programming: Towards waste-efficient building designs (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors A non-modular building layout is amongst the leading sources of offcut waste, resulting from a substantial amount of onsite cutting and fitting of bricks, blocks, plasterboard, and tiles. The field of design for dimensional coordin... Read More about Design optimisation using convex programming: Towards waste-efficient building designs.

Predicting completion risk in PPP projects using big data analytics (2018)
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Accurate prediction of potential delays in public private partnerships (PPP) projects could provide valuable information relevant for planning and mitigating completion risk in future PPP projects. However, existing techniques for evaluating completi... Read More about Predicting completion risk in PPP projects using big data analytics.

Reusability analytics tool for end-of-life assessment of building materials in a circular economy (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose – In a circular economy, the goal is to keep materials values in the economy for as long as possible. For the construction industry to support the goal of the circular economy, there is the need for materials reuse. However, there is little o... Read More about Reusability analytics tool for end-of-life assessment of building materials in a circular economy.

Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction (2018)
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of the big data technologies for health and safety risks analytics in the power infrastructure domain with large data sets of health and safety risks, which are usually sparse and noisy. Des... Read More about Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction.

Public private partnerships (PPP) in the developing world: Mitigating financiers’ risks (2018)
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Purpose – A major challenge for foreign lenders in financing public private partnerships (PPP) infrastructure projects in an emerging market (EM) is the bankability of country-related risks. Despite existing studies on country risks in international... Read More about Public private partnerships (PPP) in the developing world: Mitigating financiers’ risks.

A Big Data analytics approach for construction firms failure prediction models (2018)
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Using 693,000 datacells from 33,000 sample construction firms that operated or failed between 2008 and 2017, failure prediction models were developed using artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), multiple discriminant analysis... Read More about A Big Data analytics approach for construction firms failure prediction models.

Designing out construction waste using BIM technology: Stakeholders’ expectations for industry deployment (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Authors The need to use Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW) minimisation is well documented but most of the existing CDW management tools still lack BIM functionality. This study therefore asses... Read More about Designing out construction waste using BIM technology: Stakeholders’ expectations for industry deployment.

A framework for big data analytics approach to failure prediction of construction firms (2018)
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This study explored use of big data analytics (BDA) to analyse data of a large number of construction firms to develop a construction business failure prediction model (CB-FPM). Careful analysis of literature revealed financial ratios as the best for... Read More about A framework for big data analytics approach to failure prediction of construction firms.

Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator (2017)
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© 2017 The Author(s) The aim of this study is to develop a BIM-based Whole-life Performance Estimator (BWPE) for appraising the salvage performance of structural components of buildings right from the design stage. A review of the extant literature w... Read More about Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator.

Systematic review of bankruptcy prediction models: Towards a framework for tool selection (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The bankruptcy prediction research domain continues to evolve with many new different predictive models developed using various tools. Yet many of the tools are used with the wrong data conditions or for the wrong situation. Using... Read More about Systematic review of bankruptcy prediction models: Towards a framework for tool selection.

The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Predicting and designing out construction waste in real time is complex during building waste analysis (BWA) since it involves a large number of analyses for investigating multiple waste-efficient design strategies. These analyse... Read More about The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics.