Project Manager’s Influence on Safeguarding Sustainability Goals and Ambitions: A Qualitative Research on Understanding the Project Manager's Ability to Influence Design Teams toward Safeguarding Sustainability Goals and Ambitions during the Design Phase of Building Projects

Sustainability has gained significant importance in the building industry due to its impact on energy consumption, resource utilization, waste generation, and CO2 emissions. The responsibility for ensuring sustainable building construction often falls on project managers, tasked to lead teams and successfully deliver building projects. Project...

Promoting the Application of Off-Site Construction in China’s Residential Building Industry from the Angle of Ecosystem

Off-site construction (OSC) is an innovative construction method. However, OSC is not widely applied in residential buildings due to many barriers. Therefore, this paper aims to unravel this puzzle and interpret the slow development of OSC. The paper develops a new analytical lens based on the ecosystem concept. By deconstructing some ecosystem...

Sub-components’ lead time optimization in precast concrete house-building industry

Precast concrete appears to be promising in dealing with delays in housing construction, yet long lead times are apparent in this industry. Lead time refers to the time that elapses between placing and receiving an order. The construction company Janssen de Jong recognizes the problem of sub-components’ long lead times in precast concrete house...

Disruptive technologies for a circular building industry

This paper focuses on the circular economy (CE), the building industry, and on the disruptive technological innovations that intersect in these arenas. It outlines how disruptive, often digital, technologies can potentially enable a CE in the building industry, primarily within the two most wasteful phases of the building cycle, the...

A modular framework for integrating circularity in supply chains

Managing building supply chains is significantly challenging due to its temporary nature, design to order, fragmentation and overall complexity of processes. As the built environment strives to achieve a circular domain, there is an increasing need for solutions that close product and organisational systems together with the material and...

Exploring the perspectives of project managers towards BIM application in the building industry

BIM implementation is one of many developments in the building industry that is hindered by a resistance to change. Studies have shown that project managers are among the key players in BIM implementation. Especially when there is no clear vision on BIM, implementation is highly dependent on the project manager of a specific project. This...

Design contributions to building technology: goals, interfaces and responsiveness

In this paper, I identify issues that arose in a recent pilot project in which designers contributed to the construction field. The project was led by an overall responsible innovation goal for sustainability impact: contribute to global CO2 reduction. The innovation solution being developed to achieve this goal was a sustainable renovation...

Stimulating buildingindustry transition through innovation and actor agency: an exploration of BIM adoption by building client organizations

Reaching the promised land of BIM: An explorative study on Dutch building projects

Despite the importance of the transition between the project and operation phase in Dutch building projects, both literature and practice show that the is in most cases this transition is not proceeding properly. Unstructured and incomplete two-dimensional documents are handed over and are inefficient and ineffective for use during the operation...

Improvement of collaborative team performance between Western and Chinese partners in the China's building industry

Increasing international building construction projects happen in China, thus it is unavoidable for Western European architects to collaborative with Chinese developers. However, since cultural differences and language barriers may lead to low psychological safety and poor trust, slowing down the process and causing frustration in collaborative...

Technologies and Business Model Explorations for Risks and Performances Management in Dutch Commercial Buildings

Priva is a Dutch company in the field of indoor control and automation. Its two main business segments are commercial building control and greenhouse control. In the commercial building segment, Priva’s business currently specializes in Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) control, floor control and energy management.However,...