This chapter describes an action research project, Building a High Value Construction Environment (B-Hive), involving: two major construction clients, a privatised utility company (Thames Water), and a major leisure services provider (Whitbread Hotels); a large construction company (Taylor Woodrow); two leading construction consultancy firms; and Leeds Metropolitan University and London School ...

Operations in construction and real estate sector are increasingly networked. Practically this appears as a very high share of subcontracting, and recently the outsourcing as a lasting trend has even strengthened this phenomenon. In a major construction project the project manager and the company (s)he is representing can be connected to tens or even several hundred different partners who each ...

One of the main concerns of construction site managers, as well as insurance companies in the construction industry is the large number of construction accidents. In this study all the accidents occurred on construction sites within the period of 2002-2013 in South Australia (SA) have been considered to investigate the main factors affecting the occurrence of construction accidents. To this end...

Managerial accounting can play an important role in supporting safety management in enterprises, by systematically providing appropriate reports to support the decision-making process in the area of risk prevention, benefiting both internal and external stakeholders. In this paper, we first examine the weaknesses of current managerial accounting systems as regards the provision of systematic in...

Whilst sophisticated IT systems are being investigated and evaluated by academics, many construction organisations are still failing to implement and use IT to their strategic advantage. To address this, organisational rather than technical issues are the focus of this paper. The process by which emerging technologies can be introduced into construction organisations is explored. The case study...

BACKGROUND The study was conducted to investigate the current status of the occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS) in the construction industry and the effect of OHSMS on accident rates. Differences of awareness levels on safety issues among site general managers and occupational health and safety (OHS) managers are identified through surveys. METHODS The accident rates for ...

Textbooks tell us that a birthday attack on a hash function h with range size r requires r trials (hash computations) to find a collision. But this is quite misleading, being true only if h is regular, meaning all points in the range have the same number of pre-images under h; if h is not regular, fewer trials may be required. But how much fewer? This paper addresses this question by introducin...

The industry is becoming one of the leaders in producing and implementing sustainable building metrics by promoting the use of renewables, Green Building, Lean Building and LEED Construction. The newly introduced changes present challenges to sustainable construction and has led to more companies and stakeholders promoting integration of all construction phases. This study was conducted to quan...