Lean construction has been shown to have significant potential for impacting construction projects and is receiving increased attention worldwide. The potential for lean implementation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has generated interest among construction executives. This interest, however, has translated to limited implementation and to date there have been few projects in the commercial...

In order to ensure healthy competition and alliance among construction stakeholders, this study assessed various measures that can be adopted to minimize or eliminate the practice of collusion in the construction industry.

In Peru, the design phase of construction projects is frequently plagued by inefficiencies and poor coordination. The aim of this research is to develop a process-integration framework to improve visualization and communication in the design phase, aligning Building Information Modeling (BIM), Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) areas (including scope, communication, and stakeholder management), and...

''When the truck arrived at the construction site it could not unload the material because it [the truck] was too long, we had to send it away [...], this happens all the time in Oslo where we have to build on very small plots.'' (Carpenter, Oslo). As the quote illustrates, inefficiencies and resulting low productivity...

Planning, building, and occupying a precinct, involves many stakeholders over significant periods of time. The development and evolution of the precinct is determined through decisions made by these stakeholders, jointly or singly, in response to perceived existing problems, or to satisfy anticipated future needs. The stakeholders are therefore all participating in an ongoing “design” process...