Construction companies have always relied on their knowledge assets to provide services to clients. In recent years the terminology ‘knowledge management’ has been introduced. Knowledge management (KM) seeks to formalize the manner in which companies exploit their knowledge assets by harnessing organizational knowledge, promoting greater collaboration between groups with similar interests, capt...

Knowledge management (KM) is now recognized for its potential to bring considerable gains to construction organizations, their projects and individual workers through social and technological interventions. There is however, a paucity of empirical research in this area, and furthermore a lack of integrated KM models in the literature. Continuing research into KM in the Irish construction indust...

The construction industry is a booming sector of the Polish economy; however, it is stigmatised by a lower classification due to high occupational risks and an unsatisfactory state of occupational safety. Safety on construction sites is compromised by small construction firms which dominate the market and have high accident rates. This article presents the results of studies (using a checklist)...

In this study, we aimed to identify the influencing factors that drive highway construction companies adopt smart technologies. Using expert interviews and scoring, collected interview data from 25 experts in field proposed TOSE framework based on TOE framework, identifying four dimensions fourteen factors. We analyzed results using Fuzzy DEMATEL-ISM method, then summarized findings according e...

In the construction sector wastes and problems concerning logistics and supply chain management are widely found, and they are some of the important interfering factors for improving efficiency and productivity within the sector. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a well developed and adapted approach for logistics and supply chain managements in other industries, such as automotive. This thesis...

The extensive opportunities in China’s construction market attract many foreign construction enterprises , according to the National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013 foreign construction companies in this market does not exceed one percent of the total operating companies, this illustrates the amount of competition faced by these companies are very fierce , foreign construction enterprises to...

Many construction companies struggle with multi-project optimization and change despite adhering to normative project portfolio management instructions and best practices. One explanation is that managers lack extensive multi-project management experience from which to apply related theory to practical outcomes. This paper proposes a three-dimensional segmentation framework to guide companies w...

The financial and economic crisis has had an adverse impact on the Lithuania’s economy and construction industry. The GDP of Lithuania grew slightly in 2010, in contrast to a decrease of 14.7% in 2009. Lithuania’s GDP increased from 1.3% in 2010 to 4.6% in 2011. Annual GDP growth decreased from its highest point of 6.7%, reached in the third quarter, to 4.4% in the last quarter of 2011 [1,2]. S...

Knowledge management (KM) has been studied extensively in recent years. Some consider knowledge to be the most strategically important resource for any company, but the fragmented, project-based and task-oriented nature of construction work makes it more difficult to implement KM in this sector. This paper presents a survey of perceptions of KM implementation in the Spanish construction sector ...