Over the past two decades, social network analysis (SNA) has elicited increasing attention in
construction project management (CPM) research as a response to the emerging …

Social network analysis (SNA) is a significant tool for analyzing networks in complex project
management that examines the actors' interdependence in iterative and interactive social …

The failure of construction companies is quite crucial because it results in unfinished
projects and responsibilities that in turn result in many losses to governments, economies …

Modularization is a well-known approach that can potentially mitigate many of the current
construction industry's challenges including, for example, poor productivity, shortages in …

Fatal accident rates in the US construction industry trail behind other developed countries.
Previous research investigated accident causation, but no studies focused on the …

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 …

In construction industry, work defects yield time and cost overruns of construction projects
and also cause disputes between project participants during construction and operation …

Defects pose considerable risks to construction projects in terms of both cost and quality,
and identifying defects thus is crucial to effective construction quality management. In this …

Purpose–The purpose of this study is to identify the primary root causes of defects in terms of
why they persist in construction, despite the increasing implementation of quality systems …

A construction defect can cause schedule delay, cost overrun and quality deterioration. In
order to minimize these negative impacts of construction defects, this paper aims to analyze …