The paper presents modelling of construction project management effectiveness from the perspective of construction management organization. Construction projects performance data from construction management companies in Lithuania and the United States of America was collected and used for model development. Construction project management effectiveness model (CPMEM) was established by using ar...

Improving the constructability of a facility design is a key concern for owners, designers, and builders of facilities. Prior research has shown that a product model based on a 3D CAD model of a facility can support constructability reasoning to assist a project team in identifying constructability issues. This paper shows how a 4D facility model (3D plus time) improves constructability reasoni...

nature has always proven that it is able to overcome its problems. however, humanmanipulation has led to environmental degradations. the dryness of a thousand-year urmia lake(a brine water lake in iran) is an example of environmental degradation that happened due tosuccessive droughts and construction of dams on the basin of this lake. this study examinesmethods for the revival of urmia lake by...

How do owners balance the management and encouragement of general contractors under EPC mode not only affect project construction effect, but also hinder promotion mode. Referring to theory evaluation thought performance evaluation, this paper puts forward a set novel comprehensive methods from five aspects: index system, method grading rules, weighting evaluation. Through reasonable framework,...

the construction of underground tunnel plays a more and more important role in the development of big cities. one of the most important problems caused by the construction of the tunnel is that underground excavation will cause large settlement of the ground and buildings. previous studied showed the difference between numerical and experimental results. in this study the case study of niyayesh...

claimed have became one of the inherent attribute of construction industry. in order to determine the most appropriate strategy for prevention and resolution of these claims, some studies have been conducted to identify claim`s causes but they are common in construction industry. it seems that the reason of making these claims is a better understanding of complexity and the casual variables. in...