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- Sustainable building design practices has in recent times become a topical issue among researchers and practitioners. However, in tropical built envir...
Critical Components of Environmentally Sustainable Buildings Design Practices of Office Buildings in Ghana
Aug. 28 2019 | Tags: Critical Components Environmentally sustainable building design practices (ESBDP) Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) Structural equation model (SEM)- Pricing strategy is a critical aspect of how a firm generates its revenue or profit and as such, it remains an issue of prime importance to the constr...
Factors Influencing Tender Pricing Strategies of Construction Smes in Ghana
Aug. 28 2019 | Tags: Pricing strategies; smallmedium enterprises (SMEs); partial least square structural equation modelling; Ghana- Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the interaction effects among organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), work overload (WO) ...
Ascertaining the Interaction Effects Among Organisational Citizenship Behaviour, Work Overload and Employees’ Performance in the Ghanaian Construction Industry
Aug. 28 2019 | Tags: Construction industry, Organizational citizenship behaviour, Ghanaian, Work overload, Employees’ performance- Purpose – Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of projects is a very important aspect of project execution and management. This is because proper...
Impact of Project Monitoring and Evaluation Practices On Construction Project Success Criteria in Ghana
Aug. 28 2019 | Tags: Evaluation, Ghana, Success, Projects, Construction, Criteria, Condition monitoring- There is a raft of factors that affect the capacity of local construction firms in Ghana, particularly those in the smaller contractor classifications...
Factors Affecting the Capacity of Small To Medium Enterprises (Sme) Building Construction Firms in Ghana
Nov. 08 2019 | Tags: Capacity, Developing countries, Ghana, SME building contractors- Purpose The studies on contractor prequalification focus more on the review of models and algorithms rather than review of the criteria for contractor...
Review of Empirical Arguments On Contractor Pre-Qualification Criteria
Nov. 08 2019 | Tags: Project and construction management, Contractor selection, Contractor pre-qualification- Purpose–The non-achievement of projects of best value remains a perennial problem within the construction industry. This paper aims to identify ...
Identifying the Latent Shortcomings in Achieving Value For Money Within the Ghanaian Construction Industry
May. 02 2020 | Tags: Assessment, Value for money, Shortcomings, Latent- Based on conceptual models of macro-BIM adoption, several factors have been proposed as indicators of BIM maturity at the national level. Such macro-l...
Macro-Maturity Factors and Their Influence On Micro-Level Bim Implementation Within Design Firms in Italy
Jun. 03 2020 | Tags: BIM; design; Italy; maturity; capability- The marketing of sustainable construction materials have gained much popularity worldwide in recent times due to its environmental protection, social ...
Identification of Factors Influencing the Pricing of Sustainable Construction Materials in Developing Countries: Views of Ghanaian Quantity Surveyors
Jun. 03 2020 | Tags: Construction material, factors, influencing, pricing, sustainable- Vernacular architecture is associated with numerous advantages. However, its adoption in the development of sustainable buildings is not appreciated. ...
Professionals’ Views of Vernacular Building Materials and Techniques For Green Building Delivery in Ghana
Jun. 03 2020 | Tags: Building Ghana green building Materials Techniques Vernacular- Purpose – This paper aims to examine the factors that drive the career progression of construction project managers (CPM) in the Ghanaian constr...
Factors Driving the Career Progression of Construction Project Managers
Jun. 03 2020 | Tags: Ghana, Construction industry, Career progression, Career path, Career advancement, Construction project managers- Purpose – In Ghana, graduates often have limited entrepreneurial skills and rarely undertake entrepreneur initiatives as they are persistently i...
Underlying Strategies For Improving Entrepreneurial Skills Development of Technical and Vocational Students in Developing Countries: Using Ghana As A Case Study
Jul. 19 2020 | Tags: Entrepreneurial skills, Ghana, Technical and vocational training and education, TVET, Strategies- Purpose – Religiousness is evident in every aspect of life, and its impact on construction project performance is undeniable. However, little...
Exploring the Influence of Religious Elements On Performance Factors in Developing Countries: A Case of the Ghanaian Construction Industry
Sep. 01 2020 | Tags: Performance factors, Religious elements, Construction industry, Influence- Purpose Of late, cities across the globe are taking pragmatic steps towards addressing environmental, social and economic problems in the debate on ...
Barriers To Green Cities Development in Developing Countries: Evidence From Ghana
Oct. 08 2020 | Tags: Ghana, Green cities, Barriers, Sustainable cities, Sustainable development, Urbanisation- Purpose Supply chain (SC) disruption, whether demand sided or supply sided, is conversely perceived to affect organisational performance of construc...
Linking Supply Chain Disruptions With Organisational Performance of Construction Firms: the Moderating Role of Innovation
May. 05 2021 | Tags: Disruption, Innovation, Organisation, Moderating, Performance, Supply chains- Purpose Although building information modelling (BIM) adoption in developed countries has largely been incentivised by government, in developing cou...
Building Information Modelling (Bim) Readiness of Construction Professionals: the Context of the Seychelles Construction Industry
May. 05 2021 | Tags: Built environment research, Construction management, Association analysis, Building information modelling, BIM, competence, developing countries, Seychelles- Emotional Intelligence (EI) in conjunction with other assessment tools could be used by construction organizations to significantly improve the perfor...
Assessing the Influence of Emotional Intelligence (Ei) On Project Performance in Developing Countries: the Case of Ghana
Aug. 11 2021 | Tags: Construction industry; emotional intelligence (EI); influence; project managers; project performance- Extant studies on Self-Help Housing (SHH) have centered on the types, processes, value, and challenges, but rare on the criteria for assessing...
Criteria For Assessing Self-Help Housing Projects Affordability: A Critical Literature Review
Aug. 11 2022 | Tags: Self-help housing; housing affordability criteria; urban households; developing countries- The move towards green construction concepts’ implementation in road construction provides an oppor- tunity to reduce the carbon footpri...