The major focus of this paper is to identify the advantages, challenges and usability of BIM during the project life cycle. Understanding the actual advantages of BIM is an essential driver for effective adaptation while both academic research and case studies particularly within construction and post construction stages failed to analyse and quantify BIM benefits. It was also found there is la...

Managing risks in construction projects has been recognised as a very important management process in order to achieve the project objectives in terms of time, cost, quality, safety and environmental sustainability. However, until now most research has focused on some aspects of construction risk management rather than using a systematic and holistic approach to identify risks and analyse the l...

In order to enhance experience management for engineers participating in construction projects, it is helpful to provide engineers the experience exchanging and sharing platform to understand important issues form the previous executed projects during the construction. The proposed experience maps help engineers better to illustrate what they have previous earned experience to “real-life” probl...

This research study identifies critical decision-making factors that can help designers and constructors in selecting modular construction versus conventional “stick-built” technique for commercial building projects. The decision-making process of selecting one construction method over the other is complex and based on a number of factors some of which are site conditions, skilled labor availab...

Although more and more database management systems are being developed, constructing such systems in an engineering fashion remains an open problem. An engineering attitude towards construction not only tells how to implement a database management system, but also tries to minimize construction time. Hence, the prime objective of an engineering-style construction approach is construction effici...

We propose a construction of a global phase diagram for the quantum Hall effect. This global phase diagram is based on our previous constructions of visibility diagrams in the context of the Quantum Hall Effect. The topology of the phase diagram we obtain is in good agreement with experimental observations (when the spin effect can be neglected). This phase diagram does not show floating.

New calculus of the liquid-gas phase transition is developed for the strange hadronic matter in the relativistic mean-…eld model. Against the familiar geometrical construction of phase equilibrium we investigate canonical and micro-canonical ensembles. For the former the pressure and the chemical potentials are determined from de…nite values of baryon density, strangeness and temperature. We re...