Smart cities are complex endeavors that present several management challenges. The
current study proposes a conceptual framework based on Six Sigma for managing smart …

Prefabricated house-building companies, as suppliers or supply chains, which use
manufacturing as a business approach towards industrialization, struggle to implement …

The construction industry is a renowned latecomer to the efficiency offered by the adoption
of information technology. Whereas, the banking, manufacturing, retailing industries have …

Lean production theory and techniques have been widely applied in the manufacturing and
construction sectors to improve process efficiency by reducing the waste and increasing the …

The growing context of globalization permanently increases pressure on the construction
companies to improve their performances in order to resist to the constraints of …

Effective workforce forecasting is critical to strategic management in construction projects,
particularly ensuring staffing is optimized for efficient and timely project completion. This …

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) technique has been widely used for evaluating
potential failures in different kinds of industries. In FMEA, failure modes are evaluated and …

Source water areas are facing many potential water pollution risks. Risk assessment is an
effective method to evaluate such risks. In this paper an integrated model based on k-means …

This research is dedicated to the modelling of decision process occurring during the
implementation of construction projects. Recent studies generally do not assess the …

The purpose of this paper is to propose a data-driven approach for preparation of
Construction Labour Productivity (CLP) models from influencing labour factors. Two state-of …