Outputs (483)

Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose: Design for Safety (DfS) has been studied as an effective method to reduce injuries and fatalities in construction. Although the benefits of implementing DfS are gradually being recognised, there is limited research on DfS in developing count... Read More about Design for Safety (DfS) implementation in the construction industry: A study of design professionals in Northern China.

A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction (2025)
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The construction industry is facing increased pressure to enhance efficiency and safety, owing to its high incident rates. Modular integrated construction (MiC) has gained significant attention from scholars and practitioners as a viable means of enh... Read More about A systematic review of occupational safety and health in modular integrated construction.

The needs, challenges, and priorities for advancing global flood research (2025)
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Implementing environmental management systems (ISO14001) in the construction sector of Ghana (2025)
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Environmental Management Systems (EMS) enable organisations to manage their environmental impacts. Globalisation has resulted in more organisations needing to engage in environmental sustainability. In developed nations ISO 14001 provides the key gui... Read More about Implementing environmental management systems (ISO14001) in the construction sector of Ghana.

BIM maturity and its influence on BIM implementation challenges: The perspectives of UK contractors (2025)
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers a powerful means to enhance collaboration and efficiency in construction project delivery. However, many organizations still face persistent technical, organizational, and environmental challenges during im... Read More about BIM maturity and its influence on BIM implementation challenges: The perspectives of UK contractors.

Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype (2025)
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To reduce the significant environmental impact of the construction industry, building floors designed as concrete shells that work mainly in compression and that are segmented for prefabrication and disassembly offer a promising alternative to reinfo... Read More about Physical structural assessment of a segmented concrete shell building floor prototype.

BIM, IoT, and GIS integration in construction resource monitoring (2025)
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In recent years, the advancement of digital technologies such as building information modeling (BIM), internet of things (IoT), and geographic information system (GIS) has had many impacts on the construction industry. However, limited research has b... Read More about BIM, IoT, and GIS integration in construction resource monitoring.

Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications (2025)
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As global energy demand continues to rise, the importance of effective solar management in building design becomes increasingly critical. Solar management encompasses strategies for harvesting, regulating, and utilizing solar energy, contributing sig... Read More about Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications.

Insights into the use of GRESB as an ESG benchmarking tool (2025)
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Purpose - Sustainability practices and reporting have consistently evolved over the years with trends towards more holistic approaches with respect to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). In the real estate sector over the last deca... Read More about Insights into the use of GRESB as an ESG benchmarking tool.

Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers (2025)
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To overcome the shortage of construction workers in developed countries, the construction industry recruits a minority workforce from developing countries. However, ethnic minority construction workers (EM-CWs) experience numerous stressors in the h... Read More about Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers.

SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells (2025)
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The Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN) project explored digital workflows from the design to the construction of reinforced concrete building floor elements, reducing carbon emissions and increasing efficiency of building processes. The resulti... Read More about SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells.

Towards developing a predictive model for interpersonal communication quality in construction projects: An ensemble artificial intelligence-based approach (2025)
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High-quality communication among stakeholders is salient to securing and maintaining collaboration in construction projects. Indeed, the absence of such communication among the workforce leads to inefficiency, low productivity, and substandard delive... Read More about Towards developing a predictive model for interpersonal communication quality in construction projects: An ensemble artificial intelligence-based approach.

Falling risk analysis at workplaces through an accident data-driven approach based upon hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques (2025)
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This study proposed an accident data-driven approach using hybrid AI techniques for the quantification of falling risks at workplaces. Six machine learning models and one ensemble learning model were deployed for automatic extraction of causal factor... Read More about Falling risk analysis at workplaces through an accident data-driven approach based upon hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.

Development and evaluation of a maturity assessment tool for integrating building information modelling into operations and maintenance phase of buildings (2025)
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The emergence of advanced digital tools such as building information modelling (BIM) has transformed the concept of building management in the construction sector. Despite the promising benefits of BIM in terms of successful project deliveries and en... Read More about Development and evaluation of a maturity assessment tool for integrating building information modelling into operations and maintenance phase of buildings.

Devil in the details – Visual perception of the landscape features by potential residential buyers (2025)
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It has long been established that people attach value to window views. However, the challenge in real estate market analyses is to capture what landscape features an attractive view contains and thus how they affect the worth (individual valuation) o... Read More about Devil in the details – Visual perception of the landscape features by potential residential buyers.

Designing a master degree program in building information modeling (BIM) using national professional standards: A case studyin Kazakhstan (2024)
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This article presents the design of a master degree program focused on "Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technologies in Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC)" in Kazakhstan. The demand for such a program arises from the scarcity of quali... Read More about Designing a master degree program in building information modeling (BIM) using national professional standards: A case studyin Kazakhstan.

Build it and they will come? - A case study of a ‘softer landings’ approach in creating a low-carbon community (2024)
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This paper explores an emerging low-carbon construction business model through a case study of a low-carbon community supported by a private Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) in Lincolnshire. The study highlights the developer’s extended aftercare and... Read More about Build it and they will come? - A case study of a ‘softer landings’ approach in creating a low-carbon community.

Building a framework for dynamic organisational capabilities in Design for Safety (DfS) for Malaysian construction organisations (2024)
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Purpose – Despite the growing construction subject of Design for Safety (DfS) in Malaysia, little effort has been made to understand the construction organisational DfS capability in a dynamic environment. This study aims to propose a framework for d... Read More about Building a framework for dynamic organisational capabilities in Design for Safety (DfS) for Malaysian construction organisations.

Retrofit information challenges and potential solutions: Perspectives of households, retrofit professionals and local policy makers in the United Kingdom (2024)
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Rapidly scaling up energy retrofit for existing buildings is critical to help meet climate targets. Information is frequently identified as a key barrier to residential retrofit. This paper explores the role of information sharing in accelerating ret... Read More about Retrofit information challenges and potential solutions: Perspectives of households, retrofit professionals and local policy makers in the United Kingdom.

Wholesale building moving in Northern Sweden: Here, now and then (2024)
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This study is part of continuing collaborative research into the phenomena of wholesale moving buildings in northern Sweden. It raises questions about sustainability, through consideration of re-use in a moment of the further extensive application of... Read More about Wholesale building moving in Northern Sweden: Here, now and then.