Construction industry is highly risk prone, with complex and dynamic project environments creating an atmosphere of high uncertainty and risk. The industry is vulnerable to various technical, sociopolitical and business risks. The track record to cope with these risks has not been very good in construction industry. As a result, the people working in the industry bear various failures, such as,...

This paper addresses the need to “know why” we build by looking first at the systemic nature, and complexity, that informs the construction industry’s current paradigm. An objective of this paper is to present how the construction industry’s reigning paradigm is driven by an entrenched and obfuscating manufacturingindustrial-engineering mindset. This obfuscation is not abnormal. According to Ku...

15 16 DIVERCITY is a large EU funded project in the area of construction IT undertaken by a European 17 consortium of researchers and practitioners from the construction industry. It is the acronym for 18 Distributed Virtual Workspace for enhancing Communication within the Construction Industry and 19 the prototype that presents the mechanism to smoothly and collaboratively conduct the construc...

recently, offshore and ocean engineering have been dealing with novel materials that play a significant role in reducing the weight of structures used in the ship construction industry. 5xxx series of aluminum alloys are of the novel alloys are suitable for construction of ship hulls and the topside structures of offshore platforms. within different 5xxx aluminum alloys, aa5083 is of great impo...

In this paper, supply policy and procurement of shared resources in some kinds of concurrent construction projects are investigated. This could be oriented to the problems of holding construction companies who involve in different projects concurrently and they have to supply limited resources to several projects as well as prevent delays to any project. Limits on transportation vehicles and st...

PurposeHotel Industry is one of the most substantial factors for Tourism Industry. It could provide the necessary substructures for Tourism. Therefore the growth in Tourism industry depends on growth in Hotel industry. Hotel industry had a major growth in recent years in Iran; therefore the purpose of this paper is to explore the customer satisfaction in hotel industry. This paper aims to ident...

abstract project management in construction industry, in many cases, is imperfect with respect to the integration of occupational health and safety (ohs) risks. this imperfection exhibits itself as complications affecting the riskiness of industrial procedures and is illustrated usually by poor awareness of ohs within project teams. difficulties on ohs regularly came about in the construction i...