The construction industry is a dynamic and innovative industry that delivers building and infrastructure for all aspects of commercial and domestic activity. This dynamic and innovative industry faced with safety challenges on a project-by-project and day-by-day basis. Hence, this research objective is to identify the causes of accident happened in construction sites and measures order to impro...

1. Background The building industry agrees upon the fact that the construction process is fragmentary, this being probably the main reason for problems with the profitability and the quality of the products. The adoption of Information Technology (IT) has changed the building industry in more than one way. The need of information sharing during the different stages: building design, constructio...

As Malaysia aims to be a developed country by year 2020; the construction industry has since been identified as a major catalyst for the country to attain the status. It is one of the sectors that contribute to most environmental pollutions. It is, therefore, important for the industry to implement sustainable construction practices to reduce the negative impacts that it has on the environment....

Supply chain management and knowledge management have emerged as two distinct business philosophies in the last decade. Both are making rapid inroads into the construction industry. The premise of this paper is that knowledge management would make it possible for all the trading partners in a supply chain to reap benefits. Current research in knowledge management in the construction industry is...

BACKGROUND There can be little doubt that the construction is the most hazardous industry in the worldwide. This study was designed to modeling the factors affecting unsafe behavior from the perspective of safety supervisors. METHODS The qualitative research was conducted to extract a conceptual model. A structural model was then developed based on a questionnaire survey (n=266) by two stage ...

Reducing construction waste is becoming a key environmental issue in the construction industry. The quantification of waste generation rates in the construction sector is an invaluable management tool in supporting mitigation actions. However, the quantification of waste can be a difficult process because of the specific characteristics and the wide range of materials used in different construc...

Sustainable competitive advantage (CA) is a necessary requirement of a rational economic business organisation. Without this CA a business does not have a rational source for appropriating added value in the form of retained profit. Various management research papers have identified numerous factors that may create a source of competitive advantage. Other researchers have shown how industries h...

The Australian construction industry is a fragmented and profoundly competitive industry with high levels of subcontracting resulting in complex supply chain formations. Traditional methods and forms of communication are being proven as inefficient and losing their charm while participants face heavy volumes of communications that often occurs on a daily basis between trading partners in a supp...

This research contribution has been drafted to explore the basic complexity traits which trigger the construction projects towards complex premises. Complexity cannot be avoided during project execution but it can be managed by rehearsing key construction management practices. This research determines the impacts of key practices on construction projects in Chinese economy. To address the prima...