Pub Date : 2022-07-26DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2096250
Naomi Borg, Christina M. Scott-Young, Nader Naderpajouh, J. Borg
Abstract This study aimed to explore the personal and career resilience of project management practitioners working in the Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industries and their organizational support in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The global pandemic offered a unique opportunity to explore resilience both as a state (using quantitative scales) and as a process (using qualitative responses) in the context of a shared transboundary disturbance in normal routines. A mixed methods approach was used to triangulate quantitative and qualitative data from an online survey which included established scales and open-ended questions. Informed by a total of 121 valid survey responses, hierarchical regression analysis of the scales provided insights into the relationship between career and personal resilience and how personal resilience contributed to greater career resilience and the ability to positively adapt to the pandemic’s consequences. The quantitative analysis was complemented by a thematic analysis of the open-ended responses to identify the forms of organizational support that were important for resilience building during the pandemic. Organizational resources, such as training, mentoring, increased communication, and greater management support fostered employee adaptation to the pandemic shock. Evidence-based recommendations are made for AEC organizations to facilitate better workforce preparation for future adversities through providing effective resilience-promoting support mechanisms. The findings add to the body of knowledge by providing a better understanding of the importance of personal and career resilience and the role of organizational support in the process of resilience-building during adversities.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-17DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2076391
L. Koskela, I. Tommelein, C. Formoso, R. Sacks
This Festschrift honours the seminal achievements of Dr. Glenn Ballard in academia and in construction practice. As an academic, Glenn is one of the most influential scholars in construction management, both a prolific writer and highly cited. As a practitioner, he has had enormous influence: management methods that he pioneered are in everyday use in construction projects throughout the world. Indeed, Glenn’s achievements are so significant that it is difficult to pinpoint any other person with greater influence on the theory and practice of construction management. Yet Glenn presents us with an enigma. We see few, if any, of the usual antecedents for an influential and impactful career in construction management: he has no formal education in construction management; he has not held a tenured position at a university; he has not had access to generous research funding; he has not held any influential position in a big organisation in which he might have trialled new ideas; and he has neither collected nor analysed large sets of empirical data. How, then, has he been able to gain insight and have a significant impact in academia and industry? First, instead of formal education in construction management, he gained first-hand experience and understanding of construction as a field worker on site and then breaking through to managerial positions. Second, instead of gaining formal academic standing, he has collaborated with both industryand academic peers and with numerous students to amplify intellectual efforts. Third, instead of relying on academic funding, he excelled at working with individuals and companies to carry out research in the field. Fourth, instead of influence within an organisation, he has turned to community building, both in research and in industry. Fifth, instead of seeing research as only data collection and analysis, his research is characterised by identifying and actively solving problems encountered in practice. The desire to celebrate Glenn’s accomplishments and honour his influence on our own work and that of so many others, came in anticipation of his 75th birthday celebration. As “plans are forecasts and forecasts are always wrong”—one of many of Glenn’s apt characterisations of the state of affairs—the Covid pandemic derailed our plan, and it is only now coming to realisation with this Festschrift. We start with a short biography. Short biography
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Pub Date : 2022-07-17DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2076392
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Pub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2094434
J. F. Azcarate-Aguerre, M. Conci, Markus Zils, P. Hopkinson, T. Klein
Abstract The regulatory drive to accelerate the clean energy and circular economy transitions in the European building stock is currently failing to overcome systemic implementation barriers. These barriers include high initial investment costs, misaligned financial incentives among stakeholders, and the relatively low cost of less sustainable energy and materials. A Product-Service Systems (PSS) approach could successfully overcome many of these barriers by (1) outsourcing capital investment, as well as financial and technical risks, (2) providing shared economic incentives to collaborating stakeholders, and (3) retaining extended producer responsibility and ownership over materials and products. However, PSS is still not seen as a viable business model when compared to both a standard “ownership” contract and a “no-retrofit” scenario. This paper proposes a Total Value of Ownership (TVO) method to evaluate the financial performance of a building energy retrofit in terms of Net Present Value, comparing a matrix of scenarios. Results show that – when accounting for capital and opportunity costs tied to alternative investments, internalising externalities, and monetising soft values such as user productivity and property value – a PSS model can deliver the highest NPV. Furthermore, results show that a PSS alternative can act as a positive future-proofing strategy to safeguard the building owner’s position in the face of uncertain future market indicators and carbon taxation. Recommendations for policymakers, investors, financiers, building owners, and end-users are presented to identify the economic value of PSS contracts, leading to better-informed decisions which can accelerate deep energy retrofit of the building stock.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-03DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2081990
Yuanxin Zhang, Zeyu Wang, Wenhao Lin, R. Minchin, Xiaolong Xue
Abstract The slow uptake of the alternative delivery systems (ADSs) can potentially waste an astronomical amount of precious public funds that can be used to meet other critical needs (e.g. education and healthcare). The existing literature mainly focussed on performance evaluation of the ADSs and few provided decision support to select ADSs matching a particular project’s characteristics or external environment. Nonetheless, there lacks of research exploring the slow diffusion of ADSs, especially a deep understanding of the interaction mechanisms of the influencing factors. This research aims to increase the use of ADSs in practice. To achieve the objective, based on the data retrieved from literature, case study and interviews, this study, therefore, aims to: identify the internal and external influencing factors; reveal the interplays of these factors using interpretive structural modelling (ISM) and analyse the driving and dependence power of the factors based on Matrice d’Impacts Croisés-Multiplication Appliquée á un Classement analysis (MICMAC). Based on the 25 identified factors, the ISM built a hierarchical structural model, which reveals the interaction mechanism of the factors and the fundamental factors. The MICMAC analysis discovered the high driving, high dependent, transitive/linkage and independent factors on the diffusion of ADSs. The findings contribute to the body of knowledge about what and how the factors influencing the slow diffusion of ADSs and help contractor administrators formulate effective strategies to improve the usage of ADSs.
替代交付系统(ads)的缓慢接受可能会浪费大量宝贵的公共资金，这些资金可用于满足其他关键需求(例如教育和医疗保健)。现有文献主要集中于ads的绩效评价，很少提供决策支持来选择符合特定项目特征或外部环境的ads。然而，对美国存托凭证缓慢扩散的研究还不够深入，尤其是对影响因素之间相互作用机制的认识还不够深入。本研究旨在提高ads在实践中的应用。为了实现这一目标，本研究基于文献资料、案例研究和访谈，旨在:识别内部和外部影响因素;利用解释结构模型(ISM)揭示了这些因素之间的相互作用，并利用影响矩阵(matrix d 'Impacts)分析了这些因素的驱动力和依赖性。ISM在确定的25个影响因素基础上，构建了层次结构模型，揭示了影响因素与根本因素的相互作用机制。MICMAC分析发现ads扩散存在高驱动、高依赖、传递/连锁和独立因素。这些发现有助于了解影响美国存托凭证缓慢扩散的因素，并帮助承包商管理者制定有效的策略来提高美国存托凭证的使用。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2080241
P. Bowen, K. Yakubu, R. Govender
Abstract Alcohol consumption is an accepted part of many social and cultural practices, but excessive alcohol consumption is a global public health concern. Aside of its detrimental effects on health, it is linked to HIV-related health behaviours such as unprotected sex, multiple/concurrent sexual partnerships, and lower levels of HIV testing. Little is known about the association between alcohol use and HIV-related heath behaviours in construction. Using data from 450 workers drawn from 18 construction sites in the Western Cape, the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) was used to predict alcohol risk of harm as a function of demographic characteristics and sex-related behaviours among workers. Binary logistic regression determined factors associated with increased risk of alcohol harm. The most proximal factor predicting risk of alcohol harm was the frequency of alcohol or drug use before and/or during sex, followed by attitude towards condom use, education, and HIV testing behaviour. Future research efforts should develop a better appreciation of the role of sex-related alcohol expectancies in explaining harmful alcohol use, and intervention management practices should focus on this.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2062778
D. D. Viana, C. Formoso, F. S. Bataglin
Abstract Several efforts for industrializing construction have been made in different countries, and there has been a growing demand for engineer-to-order (ETO) industrialized building systems. In this context, products are unique for specific clients, as customer orders are placed at the design stage. There are many challenges for planning and controlling those building systems, due to the high level of complexity involved. The aim of this research is to propose a set of core requirements for production planning and control systems in ETO industrialized building systems. The methodological approach adopted in this investigation was design science research. It was based on a literature review on different planning and control models, and also on an empirical study carried out in a steel fabricator company. The proposed set of requirements is aligned with the management-as-organizing approach, challenging some traditional project management assumptions, including the use of metrics and practices that are not suitable for the high degree of complexity that exists in ETO environments. As a practical contribution, the requirements can be used by ETO construction supplier companies to support the conception and development of planning and control systems.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-30DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2053997
Ingrid Svensson
Abstract Public facilities management (PFM) is currently moving from being an institution driven by ad-hoc practices to now introducing long-term and strategic practices. During this institutional change, human actors engage in institutional work to create new practices. However, old practices seem to be maintained within PFM to a large extend. Why? Data were collected through case studies in two public facilities management organizations, an interview study in eight organizations from the institution of PFM and a workshop with representatives from the institutional field of PFM. Findings show how the changing institutional setting for the institution of PFM produce negative emotions. To manage these, human actors engage in institutional work and here they employ artefacts as means to drive change. These artefacts functioned in various ways to reduce negative feelings by inducing a sense of safety (as soft blankets), by enabling the avoidance of dealing with ‘the truth’ (as shields) and by offering hope (as a vision of perfect future). Thereby, they did not take part in creating change, as much as they took part in maintaining current practices. The unintended consequences of the usage of artefacts, explain why practices are maintained during institutional change for PFM.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2053998
D. Oswald, H. Lingard, R. Zhang
Abstract Transactional and transformational safety leadership have been repeatedly found to be important for safety. Yet how transactional and transformational leadership behaviours are most effectively demonstrated can be dependent on the context and industry. Using an ethnographic approach, supervisor safety leadership was explored across eleven construction sites in Australia. The findings revealed that, within the construction site context, contingent reward, idealised influence, and management-by-exception behaviours demonstrated by supervisors closely aligned with their definitions in Full-Range Leadership Theory (FRLT). These three types of leadership behaviour reflect observation of supervisors’ positive actions, which included: praising workers for good safety performance; proactively anticipating and attending to safety issues; and consistently leading-by-example with safety, even at times of significant production pressure. Other theoretically described dimensions of leadership behaviour, i.e. individual consideration, inspirational motivation, and intellectual stimulation, were not directly reflected in observed supervisors’ behaviour in the way they are conceptualised in FRLT. The existence of a good supervisor-worker relationship enabled workers to comfortably raise safety issues, think creatively about how to undertake work safely, and talk to their supervisor if they were experiencing personal problems. These are motivational, intellectual, and empathetic elements of leadership, which do not directly align with the way leadership behaviours are conceptualised in mainstream FRLT. The study suggests that, in the construction worksite context, leadership behaviours may take a form that differs from theoretical ideal types and that ethnographically attained insights into supervisors’ interactions with workers can contribute to understanding transformational and transactional leadership in practical terms.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2022.2048042
Chuanni He, Min Liu, T. Alves, N. Scala, S. Hsiang
Abstract Collaborative scheduling (CS) and related practices impact the performance of construction projects which can be measured by key performance indicators (KPIs). However, little is known about which of these practices are implemented and how their combined implementation might impact KPIs. The objectives of this research are to identify perceptions of CS practices that drive project performance, define CS practices used by industry that impact KPIs, and establish practices that are more commonly implemented and have a higher potential to positively impact KPIs. The research team conducted a nationwide survey in the United States and obtained 241 usable responses. Utilizing an information theory approach to measure the uncertainty of implementation and impact of each practice, the research built a set of Chow–Liu tree models to determine the most efficient sequence of actions to improve CS. Results indicate that meeting owners’ expectation throughout the life-cycle of the project from design through construction and commissioning, using the schedule to support a strong project culture, and an effective communication plan were the top CS levers for overall KPI improvement. An innovative method was developed to help construction project managers discover the value of each CS practice, the relation between CS practices, and CS practices’ influence to project KPIs so that managers can improve KPIs efficiently by prioritizing their CS practices according to their own project needs.
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