The Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) has recently compelled the construction sector to employ Building Information Modelling (BIM) as a central repository for digital project information. BIM thus become major influence in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industries (AEC). Although improves design quality by minimising disputes decreasing rework, there is limited study on applyi...

A lean approach to the planning of the construction process is a strategic challenge to analyse and manage organisational and technical factors that characterise decisions. Towards a non-schematic, non-repetitive, shared planning, construction managers need a flexible technique, tailored to the organisational process and able to represent an articulated semantic of the construction process. The...

ABSRACT Implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in the construction industry promises several benefits such as more repeat customers, reduced rework, improved employee job satisfaction, higher productivity, improved budget performance, improved schedule performance, better chances in bidding process with pre-qualification, increased market share, etc. Yet, there are several barriers to...

Although the concept of concurrent engineering has been widely applied in the manufacturing industry, there is growing awareness and interest in the adoption of Concurrent Engineering (CE) in the Construction Industry because CE has the potential to make construction projects less fragmented, reduce project duration, improve project quality, reduce total project cost and increase project compet...

The housing industry is characterized for its repeated building defects causing cost increase and time delay during the construction. In Spain, despite the Ley de Ordenación de la Edificación (Building Regulation Act) which establishes a general framework within which to promote overall building quality, defects during construction in houses remain a pervasive problem. This paper presents the f...

China is a country which has the largest investment amount in engineering construction in the world and which has the most construction projects. It is a significant subject for the extensive engineering managers to have effective engineering cost management in construction project management and to reasonably determine and control construction cost on the condition of ensuring construction qua...

Introduction: Sleep is one of the important physiologic needs in daily life cycle, and a part of quality of life. Sleep disorders are considered as one of the most common health problems in work communities that can affect physical, mental performance and ability to work. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the relationship between sleep disorders and work ability in construction worke...

Motorola (1980) introduced the concept of six sigma as a quality philosophy and a management strategy, which when adopted in a system of organization will reduce wastages and increase the profit to the management results in enhancing the satisfaction of the customer. If this concept of Six Sigma is adopted in an organization it can results in 3.4 or lower number of defects per million opportuni...