Every material arriving at the construction site comes protected in some type of packaging, fundamentally cardboard, plastic or wood, and presently the great majority of these packagings finish in a container mixed with the rest of waste of the construction work. The increasing tendency to use prefabricated materials increases the volume of packaging necessary in product transport; in addition,...

a Australasia Joint Research Centre for Building Information Modelling, Curtin University, Australia b School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Finance & Economics, China c Department of Housing and Interior Design, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea d School of Construction Management and Real Estate, Chongqing University, China e School of Engineering and Techno...

Construction project control attempts to effectively obtain real-time information and enhance dynamic control and management via information sharing and analysis from involved participants of the projects to reduce construction conflicts and project delay. However, extending the construction project control system to job sites is considered inefficient since construction sites are unconventiona...

Long recognized as a major contributor to global depletion of natural resources, the US construction industry is finally making strides in its efforts to achieve more sustainable building projects. Along the way, design and construction organizations face new challenges and the need to rethink their approach to almost every aspect of their operations. Many are finding that efforts to become mor...

Construction waste is considered as a major contributor of solid wastes in municipal landfills. Construction, renovation, and demolition (CRD) waste generated by the Canadian construction industry accounts for 27% of total municipal solid waste disposed in landfills. However, many researchers stated that 75% of what the construction industry generates as waste has a residual value and therefore...

The reliability of building processes is related not only to the level of performance required but also to their organizational structure. Conditions of turbulence in which constructors operate on site closely interact with the performance of the construction process and particularly with the risk of non-conformance of a building to the performances required. Interaction is characterised by the...

Presented here are some case study results from an enterprise management project conducted during a building design and construction process, using a web based environment for project management. It is important to note that the professionals involved had not used any project extranet before and the building design and construction process evolved using such a tool with the simultaneous managem...