Emerging Contractor’s Management And Planning skills to overcome business risk factors
Amoah, C. and Bikitsha, L., 2021. Emerging Contractor’s Management And Planning skills to overcome business risk factors. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation.
The paper is aimed at investigating the skills and strategies adopted by the new merging contractors in order to mitigate the business risk factors for better sustainability. The researcher conducted qualitative research through semi-structured interview questions. The contractors of South African developmental boards and provinces were interviewed and analysed thematically.
The results showed multiple business risks for the emerging contractors where several strategies are already being implemented by the contractors for better sustainability. The strategies are employee skill and experience development, betterment of communication system, effective pricing and financial strategy, improving supply chain and procurement strategy, imposing supervision, auditing and quality management protocols.
The major limitation of this paper is its lack of generalizability. The paper failed to include contractors from all provinces of South Africa and therefore, it cannot predict the trends of risk mitigation among all the emerging contractors.
Sundquist, V., Hulthén, K. and Gadde, L.E., 2018. From project partnering towards strategic supplier partnering. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management.
In this paper, the researcher aimed to provide an analytical understanding and framework regarding the project related partnership strategies in strategic partnership management with suppliers. The research analysed a case study of strategic partnership along with the literature review to develop a long-term model for buyer-supplier collaboration.
The findings showed that the transformation to a strategic partnership with the supplier in a project management context should be based on two dimensions. The first dimension is the extension of time through relationship development with the supplier. The second dimension is the extension in physical and operating space through increasing the communication network across the project stakeholders.
In this paper specific strategic attributes such as work breakdown related changes, changes in communication methods, alternation in tool utility have not been included. It reduced the tangibility of the model provided by the researcher. However, it helps to develop a good theoretical understanding.
Johari, S. and Jha, K.N., 2021. Exploring the relationship between construction workers’ communication skills and their productivity. Journal of Management in Engineering, 37(3), p.04021009.
The researcher of this paper aimed at finding the impact of the communication skills possessed by construction workers on employee productivity in construction projects. In this study, a survey-based quantitative data analysis process has been used by involving 114 construction workers across India.
The findings through the regression analysis highlighted that the four attributes of communication skills such as listening, reading, speaking, and writing can collectively influence employee performance and productivity. It was found that listening and writing skills influence productivity positively. Besides, the reading and speaking skills were found to be negatively effective on the workers’ performance.
The study’s limitation is that it was conducted without considering the wide range of languages used by the construction workers. The expertise of workers in different languages can influence the relationship between communication skills and performance. Hence, this research lacks the specificity of the data.
Strategic supplier partnering
Tan, Y., Ochoa, J.J., Langston, C. and Shen, L., 2015. An empirical study on the relationship between sustainability performance and the business competitiveness of international construction contractors. Journal of Cleaner Production, 93, pp.273-278.
This paper aimed at examining the relationship between the sustainability performance of the international construction contractors and their competitiveness within the respective market. In this paper empirical approach has been used by collecting secondary quantitative data from annual reports of different contractor firms and by conducting regression and other non-linear model-based inferential analyses.
This study found a U-shape relationship between the contractors’ sustainability performance and their international business revenue growth. It has been further highlighted that in order to have the best international business revenue growth the sustainability performance of the business should be at an optimum point. Deviation from that point can result in a deductive impact on revenue growth.
This paper made the business performance measures limited within the measure of revenue generation, whereas there are other measures for business competitiveness such as market expansion, market share, and others. The paper can not project all of these aspects of competitiveness to find the relationship with sustainability performance.
Perera, B.A.K.S., Perera, C.S.R. and Jayalath, C., 2020. Contractor’s Perspective on Key Performance Indicators of Cost Control in Asian, Middle Eastern, and European Construction Projects. International Journal of Construction Education and Research, pp.1-17.
The researchers of this paper were aimed to identify the key performance indicators of cost controlling techniques and tools used in the construction projects of Asia, the Middle East and Europe. A mixed cross-sectional approach has been used in this paper where the semi-structured interviews of 15 experts of the construction industry have been conducted along with the survey of 300 questionnaire survey for each tool and technique.
As the result, it has been found that most of the CCTTs are implemented in the execution stage and very few tools are used in the initiation stage. The preliminary project estimate is the most significant technique and cost per functional unit is the most significant KPI used in the construction projects. Final account and effective contract sum are found as two closing stage techniques.
The major limitation is that this paper presented a crude understanding of CCTT and KPI use rather than comparative understanding within different countries. However, the information is very valuable to understand the current trend in construction projects.
Elghaish, F., Hosseini, M.R., Matarneh, S., Talebi, S., Wu, S., Martek, I., Poshdar, M. and Ghodrati, N., 2021. Blockchain and the ‘Internet of Things for the construction industry: research trends and opportunities. Automation in construction, 132, p.103942.
This paper was focused on explaining and examining the different innovations, integration and application of the blockchain with Internet of Things technologies within the construction industry. The researcher of this paper used a scientometric analysis by systematically reviewing 648 papers on IoT and Blockchain engineering in the construction industry.
Through the qualitative presentation, the results of this paper showed that Blockchain of Things or BCoT is the new concept that is currently being explored in the construction industry. BCoT was found as a more advanced and beneficial technology compared to the conventional use of the blockchain and IoT.
Construction workers’ communication skills impact on productivity
The major limitation of this paper is that it has deviated from constructional fields to other different field-based utility of Blockchain and IoT, which reduced its validity to the chosen topic at a significant level. Besides, the qualitative understanding that was presented in the paper was not adequate to understand the comparative advantage and limitations of different applications of technologies.
Carnemolla, P. and Galea, N., 2021. Why Australian female high school students do not choose construction as a career: A qualitative investigation into value beliefs about the construction industry. Journal of Engineering Education, 110(4), pp.819-839.
This paper was aimed at developing the understanding regarding the causes behind the fact that Australian female high school students do not choose construction-related carrier. In order to explore the cause, the researcher examined the belief and values of female high school students of Australia regarding the construction industry through open-ended interview methods and thematic analysis techniques.
The results of this paper reviled that lack of awareness, lack of self-alignment, sector esteem, the effect of male domination, curricular influence, and parent and teacher influence are the reasons behind the lack of preference for construction-related carrier among high school female students. The paper also highlighted that through educational and environmental modification, the situation can be changed.
The major limitation of this paper is that selection of the samples was centralised within the New South Wales and Queensland area, as well as the sample size, which is relatively small, which raised the question about the generalisability of the findings.
Rafiei, M.H. and Adeli, H., 2018. Novel machine-learning model for estimating construction costs considering economic variables and indexes. Journal of construction engineering and management, 144(12), p.04018106.
The researcher of this paper aimed at developing a novel machine learning model that can help to estimate the constructional cost considering all the internal and external financial and economic variables and market indexes. In this study DBM, DBM-SoftMax, DBM-BPNN, and DBM-SVM were proposed as machine learning algorithms where quantitative sensitivity, specificity and delay analysis were conducted.
The findings highlighted that the proposed model is less effective than the BPNN only and SVM only model and it showed less effectiveness in predictive decision-making data projection. It was found that the number and the robustness of the training data has a strong impact on the effectiveness of the proposed model.
The limitation of this paper is that the proposed model did not consider the different levels of availability of the essential economic data and indexes. The researcher did not provide the solution to the problem where the long-term data historical data is not available.
Aitchison, M., 2017. A house is not a car (yet). Journal of Architectural Education, 71(1), pp.10-21.
In this paper, the researcher aimed to develop a critical al understanding regarding the fact that the specificities of the housing in Australia when it is considered to be good relative to the cur production industry can result in a disappointing result. In this paper, descriptive analysis of different case studies and construction ideas were conducted.
The findings showed that the specific requirement of the construction industry is similar to the car industry as well as different from than car industry’s indifferent concern. It has been highlighted that the specificity of the requirement in the construction industry should be treated differently than the car production industry. In a similar project situation, the strategies can differ extremely in the construction industry.
The major limitation of this paper is that in this paper, specific strategic attributes of the projects are not considered and the overall idea was presented in a very generalised way with a basic qualitative explanation. The subjective interpretations of the reader can alter the significance of the findings.
Conz, E. and Magnani, G., 2020. A dynamic perspective on the resilience of firms: A systematic literature review and a framework for future research. European Management Journal, 38(3), pp.400-412.
This paper aimed at answering a set of questions regarding the dynamic perspective on the resilience of the firms from the managerial aspects. In this paper, systematic literature review was conducted and qualitative analysis of the data has been used. Total 66 papers were included for systematic qualitative review.
Through qualitative findings and interpretation, a new model was proposed in this paper that articulates two independent paths for organisational resilience. It has been found that absorptive and adaptive resilience are the two paths that help to identify the key capabilities required for successful resilience at the different stages of organisational growth.
The major limitation of this paper is that it did not consider the heterogenicity of the organisational functionalities and the influence of the business environment. The lack of consideration made the proposed model less dynamic and riskier. As a result, the tangibility of the model is low.
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