An overview of smart materials and technologies for concrete construction in cold weather

J Nilimaa, V Zhaka - Eng, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cold weather conditions pose significant challenges to the performance and durability of
concrete materials, construction processes, and structures. This paper aims to provide a …

Weather-related construction delays in a changing climate: a systematic state-of-the-art review

SJ Schuldt, MR Nicholson, YA Adams, JD Delorit - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Adverse weather delays forty-five percent of construction projects worldwide, costing project
owners and contractors billions of dollars in additional expenses and lost revenue each …

How does open innovation enhance productivity? An exploration in the construction ecosystem

M Greco, M Grimaldi, G Locatelli, M Serafini - … Forecasting and Social …, 2021 - Elsevier
The innovation literature on operations-based organisations describes the positive effect of
Open Innovation (OI) on productivity. However, a systemic overview of how OI directly and …

[HTML][HTML] Extrinsic workforce diversity factors: An impact of employee characteristics on productivity

A Maqsoom, MA Musarat, H Mubbasit… - Ain Shams Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
As the global population raises, developing countries seem to have issues with the
productivity of the construction projects due to high demand. Therefore, this paper aims to …

A scientometric review of construction progress monitoring studies

T Patel, BHW Guo, Y Zou - Engineering, Construction and …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This article aims to explore valuable insights into the construction progress
monitoring (CPM) research domain, which include main research topics, knowledge gaps …

An empirical study of major factors affecting productivity of construction projects

S Dixit, K Sharma - Emerging Trends in Civil Engineering: Select …, 2020 - Springer
Productivity analysis in construction is a hot research topic among various research scholars
and academicians throughout the globe; because of the increasing globalization in the …

Incorporating the effect of weather in construction scheduling and management with sine wave curves: application in the United Kingdom

P Ballesteros-Pérez, ST Smith… - Construction …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The impact of (adverse) weather is a common cause of delays, legal claims and economic
losses in construction projects. Research has recently been carried out aimed at …

Vision-based nonintrusive context documentation for earthmoving productivity simulation

H Kim, Y Ham, W Kim, S Park, H Kim - Automation in Construction, 2019 - Elsevier
Although video surveillance systems have shown potential for analyzing jobsite contexts, the
necessity of a complex multi-camera surveillance system or workers' privacy issues remain …

Implementation of the neural networks for improving the projects' performance of steel structure projects

H Elhegazy, N Badra, SA Haggag… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - World Scientific
This paper aims at developing a model to measure and evaluate the performance and
productivity of the construction of steel structure projects (SSPs). Practitioners and experts …

Toward productivity in future construction: Mapping knowledge and finding insights for achieving successful offsite construction projects

J Jang, S Ahn, SH Cha, K Cho, C Koo… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Although offsite construction (OSC) has emerged as a promising solution to low productivity
issues in the construction industry, knowledge for effective management of OSC projects is …