Innovative Production and Construction

Throughout the 38 chapters, this must-have volume outlines essential information about the implementation of emerging technologies, from building information modeling and 3D printing, to life cycle assessment and information technology in construction and engineering projects. It covers practical case studies to demonstrate the implementation of emerging technologies in a compact style, ensuring that practitioners can adopt these methods to realize immediate benefits in productivity, safety and performance improvement.Contents: Implication of a Construction Labour Tracking System for Measuring Labour Productivity (Sara Shirowzhan, Samad M E Sepasgozar, Fahim Ullah and Pavneet Singh Minhas) Towards Conceptualization of SocioBIM-based Post-occupancy Evaluation Framework for Learning Spaces (Olatunji Abisuga, Changxin Wang and Imriyas Kamardeen) Critical Barriers to BIM Adoption in the Chinese Architectural, Engineering and Construction Industry (Xianbo Zhao and Josua Pienaar) Automatic Detection of Positions and Shapes of Various Objects at Construction Sites from Digital Images Using Deep Learning (Naoto Nishimura, Nobuyoshi Yabuki and Tomohiro Fukuda) Daylight Assessment and Energy Consumption Analysis at an Early Stage of Designing Residential Buildings Integrating BIM and LCA (Mohammad Najjar, Assed Haddad and Karoline Figueiredo) Ex post Impact Evaluation of PPP Projects — The Project Success Evaluation Pyramid Model (Jose O Romero and Ajibade A Aibinu) Psychological Contracts in Construction: Two Case Studies (Yongjian Ke) An Exploratory Model on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions and Costing Assessment in Building Operation Stage (Vivian W Y Tam, Khoa N Le, Cuong N N Tran and I M Chethana S Illankoon) Applicability of Casa Azul Certification as Sustainability Tool Available in Brazil — Case Study: Condo Neo Niterói (Camila Dinamarco, Assed Haddad, Vivian W Y Tam and Ana Evangelista) Review on Green Building Rating Tools Used in Australia (I M Chethana S Illankoon, Vivian W Y Tam, Khoa N Le and Cuong N N Tran) Freeform Printing: A Sustainable, Efficient Building Alternative (Kevin Sweet, Armano Papageorge and Tim Miller) A Reconceived Digital Workflow: A Case Study (Kevin Sweet and Tonya Sweet) Drivers and Barriers to the Adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) By Construction Firms in South Africa (Amanda Mtya and Abimbola Windapo) The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Understanding Building Material Price Dispersion in South Africa (Abimbola Windapo and Alireza Moghayedi) Assessment of Open BIM Standards for Facilities Management (S A Azzran, K F Ibrahim, Joseph H M Tah and F Henry Abanda) An Investigation of the Benefits and Challenges of Adopting Alternative Building Materials (ABM) in the Construction Industry (Oluwaseun Dosumu and Clinton Aigbavboa) Exploitation of BIM in Planning and Controlling the Construction Phase On-site Carbon Emissions: A 6D BIM Case Study (Ramy Al Sehrawy, Bimal Kumar and Omar Amoudi) Energy Efficiency in Australia: Occupant Behaviour (Vivian W Y Tam, Laura M M C E Almeida and Khoa N Le) An Economical Approach to Geo-Referencing 3D Model for Integration of BIM and GIS (Junxiang Zhu, Jun Wang, Xiangyu Wang and Yi Tan) Biomimicry Approaches for Innovative Sustainable Solutions in the Construction Industry (Olusegun A Oguntona and Clinton O Aigbavboa) Antecedents of BIM Training Effectiveness Amongst AEC Firms in New Zealand (James Rotimi, Chris Aransanmi, Funmilayo Rotimi, Chamila Ramanayaka and Abimbola Komolafe) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting Practices in the Australian Construction Industry (Bo Xia, Nur Zainal, Robin Drogemuller, Linlin Xie, Yong Liu and Xiaoyan Jiang) Application of DMAIC Approach to Improve the Centralized Procurement Process in Construction Logistics Enterprises (Zhongya Mei, Maozeng Xu and Yi Tan) Deepwater Oil and Gas Project Performance: A Study of Cultural Intelligence (Quek Tiang Beng, Abdul-Rahman Hamzah and Shavarebi Kamran) BIM-...