• Measuring The Spacing of Formwork System Members Using 3D Point Clouds 

  Wu, Keyi; Prieto, Samuel A.; García de Soto, Borja (2022)

  Formwork systems significantly impact the safety risk, construction productivity, and capital investment of infrastructure projects. Ensuring that formwork systems are properly installed is fundamental to avoid those adverse ...

• Global BIM Adoption Movements and Challenges: An Extensive Literature Review 

  Zahedi, Foad; Majrouhi Sardroud, Javad; Kazemi, Saeid (2022)

  Building Information Modelling is progressing and improving stakeholders’ abilities to manage their projects from very basic steps to their retirement. BIM is preparing a comprehensive basis to facilitate access to all ...

• The Impacts of Pandemict The Challenges of Sustainable Construction 

  Parvaneh, Fatemeh; Hammad, Ahmed (2022)

  Sustainable construction can be defined as the way of finding an equilibrium between economic, social, and environmental factors in the design, construction, use, and maintenance of buildings. The main objective of this ...

• Sustainable Site Selection: An AHP-MAUT Decision-Making Approach using a GIS Platform 

  Doczy, Ryan; Bakry, Ibrahim (2022)

  While green building rating systems allow for projects to follow a set of guidelines to construct a healthy, resource-efficient building, a building should only be considered sustainable, in a holistic sense, if a similar ...

• Synergies Between Construction 4.0 Technologies and Sustainable Construction: A Bibliometric Analysis 

  Ammar, Ashtarout; Bou Hatoum, Makram; Nassereddine, Hala; Dadi, Gabriel (2022)

  In November of 2021, world leaders united in the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), and they set a Building Vision for a Zero Emission and Resilient Built Environment, Regions and Cities. The Architectural, ...

• Seismic Risk Mitigation and Management for Critical Infrastructures using an RMIR Indicator 

  Urlainis, Alon; Shohet, Igal M. (2022)

  Recent earthquake events have highlighted the importance of critical infrastructures (CI) resilience, as a strong correlation was found between the economic loss and the severity of CIs damage. CIs are characterized by a ...

• Safety Climate in Small and Medium Construction Enterprises 

  Kima, Ovad; Shohet, Igal M. (2022)

  Construction is characterized in a highly hazardous and complex work environment, materializes in a high fatality rate, and a need for development of designated methods and tools for the branch. One of the pitfalls of the ...

• Potential of Parametric Modeling for Structural Optimization A Variant Study of Industrial Buildings with Different Timber Structure Systems 

  Daleyev, Dalel; Reisinger, Julia; Königsberger, Markus (2022)

  Global warming and global scarcity of resources drive the need for optimization of industrial buildings. The construction industry is one of the most resource-intensive economic sectors and at the same time belongs to most ...

• Older Homes & Thermal Comfort: Homeowner Satisfaction in a Southern U.S. City 

  Kramer, Scott W.; Gevedon, William B. (2022)

  This research study evaluated the impact of older home ownership on thermal comfort and overall homeowner satisfaction. Homeowners living in houses built 50 or more years ago in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Louisville, ...

• Non-Destructive Testing of the Unique Structure Made of Post-Tensioned Concrete 

  Czarnecki, Slawomir; Hola, Anna (2022)

  The paper describes the non-destructive in situ testing of the unique worldwide post-tensioning concrete load-bearing structure of a two-segment high building, which has been in operation for over 40 years. The scope of ...

• Investigating the Required Operational Changes in the Construction Industry to Comply with Circular Economy Concepts 

  Feng, Haibo; Jayaratne, Nethmi; Chen, Qian; Garcia de Soto, Borja (2022)

  Circular economy has been widely considered an efficient concept to reduce carbon emissions in the built environment. Many researchers have investigated frameworks, strategies, and technologies to drive the implementation ...

• Explore Challenges and Benefits of Virtual Reality in Construction Projects 

  Rokooei, Saeed; Javan, Bahar; Nazari, Ahad (2022)

  Today, the construction industry has undergone extensive changes, and with the introduction of new technologies, it has moved away from traditional project methods in different phases. One of these technologies is virtual ...

• Exploring 3D Printing Potentials for Sustainable, Resilient, and Affordable Housing 

  Everett, Benjamin; Soto, Julian; Bakhshi, Payam; Pourmokhtarian, Afshin (2022)

  The construction industry showed remarkable resiliency during the global pandemic, and it is a worldwide engine for economic growth. However, many construction companies are predominantly building with traditional techniques ...

• Effects of Virtual Reality Safety Training on Critical Construction Accidents 

  Rokooei, Saeed; Javan, Bahar; Nazari, Ahad (2022)

  Lack of safety training in construction sites is one of the main causes of construction accidents. This article provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the literature on the impact of virtual reality safety ...

• Best Practices for Essential Infrastructure Workers during Contagious Illness Outbreaks 

  Hubbard, Bryan J.; Hubbard, Sarah M. (2022)

  The transportation system plays an important role in society and communities, enabling personal mobility, as well as freight movement, which is required to maintain the supply chain, ensure store shelves are stocked, and ...

• A Review of Construction Safety and Health Laws in Lebanon 

  Bou Hatoum, Makram; Faisal, Ali; Khoury, Hiam; Dadi, Gabriel (2022)

  Despite being one of the most essential and prominent industries, the construction industry continues to be the world’s most fatal. It is responsible for one in every five fatal occupational injuries in the European Union ...

• Chronographical Modelling for Repetitive Project 

  Francis, Adel (2022)

  Most building projects are scheduled using the Gantt/Precedence diagram. The lack of consideration of the sequence of work and traffic in the limited spaces of construction sites makes the resolution of conflicts more ...

• Variability of Coal Fly Ash for use in the Cement Industry 

  Štefanec, Petra; Kolman, Dora; Radoš, Anita; Pulić, Šime; Gabrijel, Ivan (2022)

  Fly ash is widely used in the construction industry, and its quality and quantity varies greatly about the thermal power plant from which it is obtained. This paper reviews the test results for six fly ash samples generated ...

• Methodology to Improve Labor Productivity in Construction: A Housing Project of Highly Repetitive Processes Case Study 

  Lozano Vargas, Miguel Angel; Morillo Santa Cruz, Tania Elena (2022)

  The purpose of this article is to present a methodology to identify and reduce waste considering Lean construction tools, time and motions study techniques. This investigation was carried out during the construction of ...

• How Point-to-Point Relations Change Influence Lines in Schedule Networks 

  Lepel, Adrienn; Hajdu, Miklós (2022)

  Influence line diagrams depict the effect of changing the duration of a single activity on the whole project’s duration. The behaviour of influence lines, transitions between criticality types were hitherto examined with ...

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