BIM feasibility for small and medium-sized contractors and subcontractors

Sadeh, Hooman; Mirarchi, Claudio; Shahbodaghlou, Farzad; Pavan, Alberto

doi:10.1080/15623599.2021.1947446

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“…, 2021; Sonkor and García De Soto, 2021). Third, a similar pragmatic philosophical stance is again implemented to rank the various terminology clusters to evaluate their differentiation significance between the programmes (Sadeh et al. , 2021; Dao et al.…”

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“…Second, an interpretivist lens is employed to manually (and via software) decipher key words, shared themes and common associations into thematic clusters from the aforementioned secondary data (Newman et al, 2020;Adegoriola et al, 2021;Sonkor and Garc ıa De Soto, 2021). Third, a similar pragmatic philosophical stance is again implemented to rank the various terminology clusters to evaluate their differentiation significance between the programmes (Sadeh et al, 2021;Dao et al, 2021). Linking numerous philosophical stances into an overarching epistemology has been frequently and fruitfully used within built environment research.…”

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Professional skills development: foundational curriculum skills and competencies of UK construction management programmes

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Edwards

Roberts

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PurposeThis research presents a profile of the current skills and competencies that underpin construction management programmes' (CMP) curricula within United Kingdom (UK) higher education institutes (HEIs). In doing so, the work: synthesises disparate taught provisions across a range of HEIs; conducts a cross-comparative analysis between these provisions and engenders wider discourse and new insight into the consistency of current higher education practice.Design/methodology/approachBoth interpretivism and pragmatism are adopted to analyse secondary data sourced from construction management undergraduate programmes in the UK inductive reasoning and inferential analysis (i.e. quantitative rank correlation, text/data mining and qualitative inquiry) are utilised to help underscore the current technical and interpersonal skills and competencies noted within the programmes and develop new theories on curriculum shortfalls and inadequacies.FindingsResearch findings demonstrate that the specific content of CMP are bespoke and tailored by the programme teaching team at each individual HEI; albeit, all programmes reviewed are in congruence regards the importance of broad technical and interpersonal themes. However, the degree to which these themes are publicly presented differ from the curricular and institutional documentation; specifically, a more “technical-based skill” image is being portrayed publicly whilst “interpersonal skills” are doing the heavy curriculum lifting. Hence, the foundational curriculum skills and competencies are firmly rooted in a sense of employability and career preparedness; a balance of technical and interpersonal skills. Identification of these skills and competencies provides a springboard for supplementary research to augment curriculum development.Originality/valueThis research constitutes the first attempt to conduct a cross-comparative analysis of descriptive metadata contained with curriculum development documents sourced from various UK HEIs. Emergent findings unearth the key skills and competencies that serve as the curriculum's foundation but also question whether a more consistent approach to construction management education should be sought.

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Professional skills development: foundational curriculum skills and competencies of UK construction management programmes

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“…However, these criteria were not specific to any project. Sadeh et al [29] investigated the feasibility of BIM for GCs and SCs, and showed that BIM has a significant role in executing a large-scale project. The feasibility of BIM amounts to different ranks for GCs and SCs.…”

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Relaxed Rank Order Centroid Weighting MCDM Method With Improved Grey Relational Analysis for Subcontractor Selection: Photothermal Power Station Construction

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Jianwu

Bai

et al. 2024

IEEE Trans. Eng. Manage.

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This article addresses the problem of subcontractor selection in an uncertain decision-making environment by proposing a new hybrid method and improving a classical multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) method. First, the proposed hybrid method combines subjective and objective weighting methods to estimate the weights of criteria that are represented as grey numbers. The subjective weighting method is the PA weighting method. The objective weighting method is the rank order centroid with slacks (ROCS) weighting method used to compensate for the limitation of the rank order centroid weighting method. Second, grey relational analysis (GRA) is improved by introducing both positive and negative reference (PNR) alternatives instead of a single reference alternative as in the classical GRA. Subsequently, the proposed hybrid grey-point allocation-ROCS weighting method and the GRA-PNR evaluation method are applied to select the most suitable subcontractor for the supply of heliostats for photothermal power station construction. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to verify the robustness of the results. Finally, the technique for order preferences by similarity to an ideal solution with grey values, simple additive weighting with grey relations, and additive ratio assessment with grey criteria scores is applied to validate the participation of the selected subcontractor in the project.Index Terms-Grey relational analysis (GRA), grey system theory (GST), multicriteria decision-making (MCDM), photothermal power station, rank order centroid (ROC), subcontractor selection. I. INTRODUCTIONT HE seventh sustainable development goal is to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all [1]. Although meeting the demand for energy is not an easy requirement, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is now Manuscript

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Parametric design of an automated kinetic building façade using BIM: A case study perspective

Haghighat

Sadeh

2023

Journal of Building Engineering

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BIM feasibility for small and medium-sized contractors and subcontractors

Cited by 4 publications

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Professional skills development: foundational curriculum skills and competencies of UK construction management programmes

Professional skills development: foundational curriculum skills and competencies of UK construction management programmes

Relaxed Rank Order Centroid Weighting MCDM Method With Improved Grey Relational Analysis for Subcontractor Selection: Photothermal Power Station Construction

Parametric design of an automated kinetic building façade using BIM: A case study perspective

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