Unsafe behaviour in the workplace and disaster events can lead to serious harm damage. Safety training has been a widely studied topic over past two decades. Its primary aim is save lives minimise damage but requires regular refreshers. New digital technologies are helping process of enhancing safety for better knowledge acquisition retention. Among them, Virtual Reality (VR) provide an engaging exciting experience, there need evaluate its application effectiveness training. This study aims...

Many construction projects are of long-duration and high value foreseeing planning for every eventuality may be impossible. Engineers managers expected to solve problems surfacing during the execution stage. Moreover, blended with conflict damaging manifest as disputes. The authors suggested that dispute can conceptualized having three basic components: contract provisions, triggering events conflict. This conceptualization fits nicely fault tree (FT) framework is used evaluate system...

Project performance is always one of the key concerns construction project managers. It often regarded as critical indicator to measure success organization. This paper further advances existing knowledge on achievement by investigating its relationship with trust and communication. Specifically, mediating role communication studied detect any direct and/or indirect effect this relationship. An analytical approach mediation analysis was performed achieve objective. Five significant models...

This paper presents a conceptual framework for developing leading safety indicators the construction industry. The clarifies nature of in terms definition, purpose, and attributes. A pragmatic method systematically identifying set projects is proposed. consists four steps: conceptualization, operationalization, indicator generation, validation, revision, emphasizes two functions indicators: informative decision aiding. First, must be able to provide information about state safety. Second,...

In the workplace, some workers tend to have a higher probability of incurring an accident. Such individuals might behave unsafely because they assign low priority safety. Some evidence in literature suggests that people's personalities could influence their safety behavior at work. However, it seems correlation between construction workers' personality traits and has been insufficiently addressed existing literature. This paper attempts provide on this issue. Two hundred eighty were surveyed...

This study aimed to quantify the effectiveness of a set implemented management strategies including incentive programs, labor management, training, communication, supervision, planning, resource scheduling, use advanced construction methods, and in improving productivity. These are widely because they believed improve productivity general projects. However, their relationship with have not been systematically studied. Data were collected from 111 The statistical tests confirmed that is...

The successful implementation of digital technologies (DT) in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects necessitates workflow adjustment, crew scheduling, equipment optimization, efficient collaboration among project parties. Understanding the capabilities industry professionals is essential for effective deployment DT. This paper examines competence AEC practitioners 14 types DT through a questionnaire survey involving 428 participants. Descriptive statistics, including...

The adversarial nature of the construction industry contributes to germination and manifestation disputes. Negotiation between disputants is most often first attempt in getting disputes resolved. During negotiation, personality characteristics affect their behavior thus outcomes. Understanding negotiating behaviors negotiation outcomes therefore both academic practical value. This paper reports such a study conducted with professionals Hong Kong. Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory-II...

Purpose Although several studies have been conducted on the causes of cost overrun, they mainly assumed that overrun are independent each other, and few them scrutinized complex interrelationships between causes. To fill gap, this study aims to investigate mutual interactions using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) proposing strategies tackle considering their interactions. Design/methodology/approach Critical were identified through a comprehensive literature review. In total, 22 key...

Purpose In the construction sector, site excavation is one of most dangerous and challenging activities. Proper training can be an effective way to mitigate hazards. Virtual reality (VR) has been used as tool enhance safety performance in various industries. However, little attention paid potential this technology for training. Design/methodology/approach This study proposes immersive VR system hazard identification. The proposed was compared with a health manual via controlled experiment....

Purpose With growing concern about sustainable development and increased awareness of environmental issues, digital technologies (DTs) are gaining prominence becoming a promising trend to improve productivity, sustainability project performance in the construction industry. Nonetheless, uptake DTs industry has been limited plagued with roadblocks. This study aims identify critical barriers for organisations adopt demonstrate relationships between organisational characteristics perceived...

For many years, the construction industry has relied on formal contracts to define and enforce obligations rights of contracting parties. Legal scholars have suggested that, based their transaction characteristics, there are three different forms contracts: classical, neoclassical, relational. Of these, which form is more appropriate for use in projects? With increasing awareness importance teamwork construction, clear evidence a rising trend adopting partnering approach project delivery....