Towards a Sustainable Construction Industry: The Role of Innovation and Digitalisation

Proceedings of 12th Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Postgraduate Research Conference
Herausgegeben:Aigbavboa, Clinton; Thwala, Wellington; Aghimien, Douglas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book gathers papers from the 12th Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Postgraduate Research Conference, which was held at the International Convention Centre, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, from July 10 to 12, 2022. The conference directly addresses the objectives of SDG9: "Building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation". Moreover, the conference is designed to promote capacity development and transformation within the built-environment space by providing an all-inclusive platform to established and emerging researchers to discuss the recent advancements needed to move the industry forward.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-22436-2
• 2023
• Seitenzahl: 820
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1218g
• ISBN-13: 9783031224362
• ISBN-10: 3031224361
• Artikelnr.: 70489663

Inhaltsangabe

Adding Resilience to a Building Using Lightning Information Modeling.- Evaluating the Influence of Floor Heights on Thermal Comfort in Multi-storey Office Buildings in Temperate-dry Climate of Nigeria.- Improving Safety on Building Project Sites: The Role of Sensor-Based Technology.- Assessment of Architects Adoption of Green Smart Design Strategies in High-Rise Office Building in Lagos Nigeria.- Evaluation of Alternative Materials for Building Construction in Nigeria.- Investigation of Indoor Environmental Quality of Lecture Rooms on Students' Comfort in Selected Polytechnics, Lagos, Nigeria.- Evaluation of Low-Cost Housing Estate Readiness to Green Environment Creation.- Towards the Adoption of Modular Construction in Residential Projects in Egypt: Benefits, Barriers, and Enablers.- Retrofitting and maintaining existing South African government buildings for improving safety from fire: A comprehensive review of literature.- Assessment of the Perception and Practices of Sustainable Construction in the University of Nigeria.- Barriers to the Successful Adoption of Innovative Building Materials for Sustainable Construction: A Review.- Barriers to the Implementation of Industrialized building system in South Africa.- Blockchain Technology Innovation in Supply Chain Management: Perception of Construction Stakeholders in Developing Countries.- Innovations in Construction Organisations in Nigeria.- Exploring the protocol for construction 4.0 use in South.- Global Trend in Retrofitting using Smart Technology: A Scientometric Review.- Impact of Big Data Usage in the Construction Industry.- A Preliminary Investigation of the Readiness to Adopt Digital Technologies in a Developing Construction Industry.- Smart Low-Cost Housing Estate Management: A System Thinking Approach.- Levels and Period of Exposure to Chemical Irritants in relation to symptoms of skin diseases for Construction Specialised Personnel in Zambia.- Impact of COVID-19 on the productivity of small and medium enterprises within the construction and consulting engineering companies in South Africa.- Agile Risk Management Practices in the South African Construction Industry Project Delivery.- Utilization of Delphi Method for Risk Management of Public-Private Partnership Construction Project Research in Ghana.- Conceptual Design of a Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting and Treatment System.- Compressive Strength and Water Absorption Capacity of Clay Bricks in South Africa.- Enabling Legislative Coherence in the Eswatini Construction Industry: A Conceptual Framework.- Use of Bamboo Ash as Partial Replacement in Cement Mortar.- Valuation Problems in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Framework.- Addressing the Challenges in the Construction Industry Using a Systems Thinking Approach; a Case Study in Ghana.- Flexural Bond Strength Analysis of Dry vs. Water Saturated Burnt Clay Brick Prisms: Pilot Study.- Valuation Problems in Kenya: A Literature Review.- Barriers to Knowledge Management Capabilitiesof Quantity Surveying firms in an Emerging Market.- Overcoming communication complexities on construction site.- Integration of Emerging Technologies in Construction Project Delivery: Durban Construction Contractors' Experience.- Delphi Approach to Operation Environment Indicators for Public-Private Partnership Risk Management in Construction Industry in Ghana.- Critical success factors for construction projects delivery: emerging contractor's perspectives.- Tiny Housing Development: A Vaccine for Unaffordable Housing Delivery in Africa.- Investigating Effective Infrastructure Delivery in South Africa: An Assessment of Infrastructure Delivery Reforms.- Complexities in Metrorail Project- A case study of Hyderabad Metro rail.- A Study of challenges in utilising decentralised electrical systems in South African residential properties.- Investigating the effects of Innovative Technologies on the Delivery of South African Affordable Housing.- Institutional Regulatory Frameworkand Affordable Rental Housing Delivery in Kenya.- Project Management Practices: Importance to Delivery of Infrastructural Project.- Housing Finance Systems and Affordable Rental Housing Delivery in Kenya.- Investigating Construction and Demolition Waste Management Practices Among Building Industry Professionals in Lagos, Nigeria.- An Appraisal of Construction Health and Safety Practices in Privately Owned Small and Medium-Sized Construction Firms in Nigeria.- User experience of health and safety provisions for women in construction.- Climate change - an exacerbator of human health problems in coastal areas.- Prevalence of the Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) among Construction Workers in South Africa.- Rethinking Density: design and planning for healthy informal settlements post COVID-19 in Sub Saharan Africa.- A Delphi Approach on the Challenges of Human Resource Management Practices Implementation in the Nigerian Construction Industry.- Assessment of compensation mechanisms for construction related occupational accidents in Oyo State, Nigeria.- A Review of Effective Strategies for Retaining Female Professionals in the Construction Industry.- Significant Cultural Intelligence Attributes for Performance Effectiveness in Cross-Organisational Project Teams.- The Impact of Corporate Culture on Value Management Adoption in the Construction Industry.- Sustainability and the law: A legal framework for digital technologies in an inclusive construction industry.- Establishing the Need for Utilising Market Intelligence by Local Construction Firms in Developing Countries.- Investigating the Effects of River Channel Meander on Bridge Hydraulics.- A Review on Digital Quality Control Practices on Building Construction Projects.- Key Drivers of Building Information Modelling Adoption for Post Construction Management: A Review of Existing Literature.- Building Information Modelling for Information Management in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Review.- Ascertaining the benefit indexes of life cycle assessment in the South African construction industry: A hybrid fuzzy analysis approach.- Delay Minimising Measures used on Road Construction Projects in South Africa.- Improving Construction Productivity Estimation Techniques through realistic labour productivity determinants.- Project Management Competencies for Embedding Sustainability in Construction Projects: A Delphi Study.- Stakeholder-related Causes of Cost Overruns in the Namibian Construction Industry.- Examining the Expanded Public Works Programme in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.- Toward an Integrated SCM Model for the South African Construction Industry: Lessons from Shipbuilding.- Evaluating the Effect of Land Use Management Processes on Property Development in the City of Johannesburg.- Occupational Stressors among Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Zambian Construction Industry: A Preliminary Study.- Upshots of flood prevalence on Ala River Basin and connecting neighbourhood inAkure, Ondo State of Nigeria.- Appraisal of Locational Impacts of Akure Shopping Mall on Connecting Environments.- Understanding Land Use Planning and Sustainable Development from the Perspective of Smart Groundwater Monitoring.- Pollution in the Urban Environment: A Research on Contaminated Groundwater in the Aquifers Beneath the Qoboza Klaaste (QK) Building at University of Johannesburg in South Africa.- Nexus Between Urban Landuses and Water Pollution.- Barriers to the exploration of land resources for construction works in Osun State, Nigeria.