Significant developments in digital technologies can potentially provide managers and
engineers with the ability to improve the quality of the construction industry. Acknowledging …

The construction sector accounts for a significant portion of the total final energy use and
carbon emissions worldwide. Despite efforts to reduce energy consumption through energy …

Purpose Against the background of earlier publications on the future of facilities
management (FM) and acknowledging digitalization and sustainability as two major shaping …

This research explores the failure of competitively tendered projects in the UK construction
industry to procure the most suited contractor (s) to conduct the works. Such work may have …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine, review and analyse the current literature
on building and construction quality and determine the related themes and gaps …

Purpose The issue of building defects is a growing concern that affects all major construction
stakeholders as a result of costs and time implications of reworks. The magnitude of the …

This study investigated defect risks in residential buildings using the Loss Distribution
Approach (LDA), a method of identifying and quantifying operational risks in economic …

Construction companies usually record customer complaints as unstructured texts, resulting
in unsuitable information to understand defect occurrences. Moreover, complaint databases …

Purpose The largest share of a building maintenance budget goes towards preventing or
repairing building defects. Also, building defects shorten a building's lifetime, impact the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present defects reported by cooperative owners,
and to determine the relationship between building characteristics, developer's/contractor's …