All Outputs (47)

Investigating profitability performance of construction projects using big data: A project analytics approach (2019)
Journal Article
Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Kusimo, H. O., Owolabi, H. A., Akanbi, L. A., Ajayi, A. O., …Davila Delgado, J. M. (2019). Investigating profitability performance of construction projects using big data: A project analytics approach. Journal of Building Engineering, 26, Article 100850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.100850

© 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)
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Owolabi, H., Oyedele, L., Alaka, H., Bilal, M., Ajayi, S., Akinade, O., & Agboola, A. (2019). Stimulating the attractiveness of PFI/PPPs using public sector guarantees. World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 15(3), 239-258. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJEMSD-05-2018-0055

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
Akanbi, L. A., Oyedele, L. O., Omoteso, K., Bilal, M., Akinade, O. O., Ajayi, A. O., …Owolabi, H. A. (2019). Disassembly and deconstruction analytics system (D-DAS) for construction in a circular economy. Journal of Cleaner Production, 223, 386-396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.172

© 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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Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Akinade, O. O., Delgado, J. M. D., Akanbi, L. A., Ajayi, A. O., & Younis, M. S. (2019). Design optimisation using convex programming: Towards waste-efficient building designs. Journal of Building Engineering, 23, 231-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2019.01.022

© 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)
Journal Article
Owolabi, H., Bilal, M., Oyedele, L., Alaka, H. A., Ajayi, S. O., & Akinade, O. (2020). Predicting completion risk in PPP projects using big data analytics. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 67(2), 430-453. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2018.2876321

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.

Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction (2018)
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Ajayi, A., Oyedele, L., Davila Delgado, J. M., Akanbi, L., Bilal, M., Akinade, O., & Olawale, O. (2019). Big data platform for health and safety accident prediction. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 16(1), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-05-2018-0042

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.

Reusability analytics tool for end-of-life assessment of building materials in a circular economy (2018)
Journal Article
Akanbi, L., Oyedele, L., Davila Delgado, J. M., Bilal, M., Akinade, O., Ajayi, A., & Mohammed-Yakub, N. (2019). Reusability analytics tool for end-of-life assessment of building materials in a circular economy. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 16(1), 40-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-05-2018-0041

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.

Public private partnerships (PPP) in the developing world: Mitigating financiers’ risks (2018)
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Owolabi, H. A., Oyedele, L., Alaka, H., Ebohon, O. J., Ajayi, S., Akinade, O., …Olawale, O. (2019). Public private partnerships (PPP) in the developing world: Mitigating financiers’ risks. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 16(3), 121-141. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-05-2018-0043

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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Alaka, H., Oyedele, L., Owolabi, H., Akinade, O., Bilal, M., & Ajayi, S. (2019). A Big Data analytics approach for construction firms failure prediction models. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 66(4), 689-698. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2018.2856376

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)
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Akinade, O., Oyedele, L., Ajayi, S., Bilal, M., Alaka, H. A., Owolabi, H., & Arawomo, O. (2018). Designing out construction waste using BIM technology: Stakeholders’ expectations for industry deployment. Journal of Cleaner Production, 180, 375-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.022

© 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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Alaka, H. A., Oyedele, L. O., Owolabi, H. A., Bilal, M., Ajayi, S. O., & Akinade, O. O. (2020). A framework for big data analytics approach to failure prediction of construction firms. Applied Computing and Informatics, 16(1/2), 207-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aci.2018.04.003

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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Akanbi, L. A., Oyedele, L., Akinade, O., Ajayi, A. O., Davila Delgado, M., Bilal, M., & Bello, S. A. (2018). Salvaging building materials in a circular economy: A BIM-based whole-life performance estimator. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 129, 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2017.10.026

© 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.

The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics (2017)
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Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Munir, K., Ajayi, S. O., Akinade, O. O., Owolabi, H. A., & Alaka, H. A. (2017). The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 11, 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2016.12.004

© 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.

BIM-based deconstruction tool: Towards essential functionalities (2017)
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Akinade, O. O., Oyedele, L. O., Omoteso, K., Ajayi, S. O., Bilal, M., Owolabi, H. A., …Looney, J. H. (2017). BIM-based deconstruction tool: Towards essential functionalities. International Journal for Sustainable Built Environment, 6(1), 260-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsbe.2017.01.002

© 2017 The Gulf Organisation for Research and Development This study discusses the future directions of effective Design for Deconstruction (DfD) using BIM-based approach to design coordination. After a review of extant literatures on existing DfD pr... Read More about BIM-based deconstruction tool: Towards essential functionalities.

Optimising material procurement for construction waste minimization: An exploration of success factors (2017)
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Ajayi, S. O., Oyedele, L. O., Akinade, O. O., Bilal, M., Alaka, H. A., & Owolabi, H. A. (2017). Optimising material procurement for construction waste minimization: An exploration of success factors. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 11, 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2017.01.001

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Although construction waste occurs during the actual construction activities, there is an understanding that it is caused by activities and actions at design, materials procurement and construction stages of project delivery proc... Read More about Optimising material procurement for construction waste minimization: An exploration of success factors.

Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors (2016)
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Alaka, H. A., Oyedele, L. O., Owolabi, H. A., Bilal, M., Ajayi, S. O., & Akinade, O. O. (2017). Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 143(3), 04016026. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29EI.1943-5541.0000321

© 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers. Construction industry insolvency studies have failed to stem the industry's high insolvency tide because many focus on big civil engineering firms (CEF) when over 90% of firms in the industry are small or m... Read More about Insolvency of small civil engineering firms: Critical strategic factors.

Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects (2016)
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Ajayi, S. O., Oyedele, L. O., Bilal, M., Akinade, O. O., Alaka, H. A., & Owolabi, H. A. (2017). Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects. Waste Management, 59, 330-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2016.10.040

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd As a result of increasing recognition of effective site management as the strategic approach for achieving the required performance in construction projects, this study seeks to identify the key site management practices that are... Read More about Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction projects.

Design for Deconstruction (DfD): Critical success factors for diverting end-of-life waste from landfills (2016)
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Akinade, O. O., Oyedele, L. O., Ajayi, S. O., Bilal, M., Alaka, H. A., Owolabi, H. A., …Kadiri, K. O. (2017). Design for Deconstruction (DfD): Critical success factors for diverting end-of-life waste from landfills. Waste Management, 60, 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2016.08.017

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The aim of this paper is to identify Critical Success Factors (CSF) needed for effective material recovery through Design for Deconstruction (DfD). The research approach employed in this paper is based on a sequential exploratory... Read More about Design for Deconstruction (DfD): Critical success factors for diverting end-of-life waste from landfills.

Methodological approach of construction business failure prediction studies: a review (2016)
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Alaka, H. A., Oyedele, L. O., Owolabi, H. A., Ajayi, S. O., Bilal, M., & Akinade, O. O. (2016). Methodological approach of construction business failure prediction studies: a review. Construction Management and Economics, 34(11), 808-842. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2016.1219037

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Performance of bankruptcy prediction models (BPM), which partly depends on the methodological approach used to develop it, has virtually stagnated over the years. The methodological posi... Read More about Methodological approach of construction business failure prediction studies: a review.

Competency-based measures for designing out construction waste: Task and contextual attributes (2016)
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Ajayi, S. O., Oyedele, L. O., Kadiri, K. O., Akinade, O. O., Bilal, M., Owolabi, H. A., & Alaka, H. A. (2016). Competency-based measures for designing out construction waste: Task and contextual attributes. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 23(4), 464-490. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-06-2015-0095

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - Competency-based measure is increasingly evident as an effective approach to tailoring training and development for organisational change and development. With design stage widely reckoned as being decisi... Read More about Competency-based measures for designing out construction waste: Task and contextual attributes.