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Towards a Sustainable Construction Industry: The Role of Innovation and Digitalisation

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Adding Resilience to a Building Using Lightning Information Modeling
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    Chapter 2 Evaluating the Influence of Floor Heights on Thermal Comfort in Multi-storey Office Buildings in Temperate-Dry Climate of Nigeria
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    Chapter 3 Improving Safety on Building Project Sites: The Role of Sensor-Based Technology
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    Chapter 4 Assessment of Architects Adoption of Green Smart Design Strategies in High-Rise Office Building in Lagos Nigeria
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    Chapter 5 Evaluation of Alternative Materials for Building Construction in Nigeria
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    Chapter 6 Investigation of Indoor Environmental Quality of Lecture Rooms on Students’ Comfort in Selected Polytechnics, Lagos, Nigeria
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    Chapter 7 Evaluation of Low-Cost Housing Estate Readiness to Green Environment Creation
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    Chapter 8 Towards the Adoption of Modular Construction in Residential Projects in Egypt: Benefits, Barriers, and Enablers
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    Chapter 9 Retrofitting and Maintaining Existing South African Government Buildings for Improving Safety from Fire: A Comprehensive Review of Literature
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    Chapter 10 Assessment of the Perception and Practices of Sustainable Construction in the University of Nigeria
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    Chapter 11 Barriers to the Successful Adoption of Innovative Building Materials for Sustainable Construction: A Review
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    Chapter 12 Barriers to the Implementation of Industrialized Building System in South Africa
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    Chapter 13 Blockchain Technology Innovation in Supply Chain Management: Perception of Construction Stakeholders in Developing Countries
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    Chapter 14 Innovations in Construction Organisations in Nigeria
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    Chapter 15 Exploring the Protocol for Construction 4.0 Use in South
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    Chapter 16 Global Trend in Retrofitting Using Smart Technology: A Scientometric Review
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    Chapter 17 Impact of Big Data Usage in the Construction Industry
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    Chapter 18 A Preliminary Investigation of the Readiness to Adopt Digital Technologies in a Developing Construction Industry
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    Chapter 19 Smart Low-Cost Housing Estate Management: A System Thinking Approach
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    Chapter 20 Levels and Period of Exposure to Chemical Irritants in Relation to Symptoms of Skin Diseases for Construction Specialised Personnel in Zambia
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    Chapter 21 Impact of COVID-19 on the Productivity of Small and Medium Enterprises Within the Construction and Consulting Engineering Companies in South Africa
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    Chapter 22 Agile Risk Management Practices in the South African Construction Industry Project Delivery
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    Chapter 23 Utilization of Delphi Method for Risk Management of Public-Private Partnership Construction Project Research in Ghana
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    Chapter 24 Conceptual Design of a Sustainable Rainwater Harvesting and Treatment System
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    Chapter 25 Compressive Strength and Water Absorption Capacity of Clay Bricks in South Africa
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    Chapter 26 Enabling Legislative Coherence in the Eswatini Construction Industry: A Conceptual Framework
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    Chapter 27 Use of Bamboo Ash as Partial Replacement in Cement Mortar
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    Chapter 28 Valuation Problems in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Framework
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    Chapter 29 Addressing the Challenges in the Construction Industry Using a Systems Thinking Approach; A Case Study in Ghana
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    Chapter 30 Flexural Bond Strength Analysis of Dry vs. Water Saturated Burnt Clay Brick Prisms: Pilot Study
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    Chapter 31 Valuation Problems in Kenya: A Literature Review
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    Chapter 32 Barriers to Knowledge Management Capabilities of Quantity Surveying Firms in an Emerging Market
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    Chapter 33 Overcoming Communication Complexities on Construction Site
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    Chapter 34 Integration of Emerging Technologies in Construction Project Delivery: Durban Construction Contractors’ Experience
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    Chapter 35 Delphi Approach to Operation Environment Indicators for Public-Private Partnership Risk Management in Construction Industry in Ghana
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    Chapter 36 Critical Success Factors for Construction Projects Delivery: Emerging Contractor’s Perspectives
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    Chapter 37 Tiny Housing Development: A Vaccine for Unaffordable Housing Delivery in Africa
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    Chapter 38 Investigating Effective Infrastructure Delivery in South Africa: An Assessment of Infrastructure Delivery Reforms
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    Chapter 39 Complexities in Metrorail Project- A Case Study of Hyderabad Metro Rail
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    Chapter 40 A Study of Challenges in Utilising Decentralised Electrical Systems in South African Residential Properties
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    Chapter 41 Investigating the Effects of Innovative Technologies on the Delivery of South African Affordable Housing
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    Chapter 42 Institutional Regulatory Framework and Affordable Rental Housing Delivery in Kenya
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    Chapter 43 Project Management Practices: Importance to Delivery of Infrastructural Project
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    Chapter 44 Housing Finance Systems and Affordable Rental Housing Delivery in Kenya
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    Chapter 45 Investigating Construction and Demolition Waste Management Practices Among Building Industry Professionals in Lagos, Nigeria
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    Chapter 46 An Appraisal of Construction Health and Safety Practices in Privately Owned Small and Medium-Sized Construction Firms in Nigeria
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    Chapter 47 User Experience of Health and Safety Provisions for Women in Construction
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    Chapter 48 Climate Change—An Exacerbator of Human Health Problems in Coastal Areas
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    Chapter 49 Prevalence of the Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) Among Construction Workers in South Africa
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    Chapter 50 Rethinking Density: Design and Planning for Healthy Informal Settlements Post COVID-19 in Sub Saharan Africa
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    Chapter 51 A Delphi Approach on the Challenges of Human Resource Management Practices Implementation in the Nigerian Construction Industry
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    Chapter 52 Assessment of Compensation Mechanisms for Construction Related Occupational Accidents in Oyo State, Nigeria
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    Chapter 53 A Review of Effective Strategies for Retaining Female Professionals in the Construction Industry
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    Chapter 54 Significant Cultural Intelligence Attributes for Performance Effectiveness in Cross-Organisational Project Teams
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    Chapter 55 The Impact of Corporate Culture on Value Management Adoption in the Construction Industry
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    Chapter 56 Sustainability and the Law: A Legal Framework for Digital Technologies in an Inclusive Construction Industry
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    Chapter 57 Establishing the Need for Utilising Market Intelligence by Local Construction Firms in Developing Countries
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    Chapter 58 Investigating the Effects of River Channel Meander on Bridge Hydraulics
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    Chapter 59 A Review on Digital Quality Control Practices on Building Construction Projects
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    Chapter 60 Key Drivers of Building Information Modelling Adoption for Post Construction Management: A Review of Existing Literature
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    Chapter 61 Building Information Modelling for Information Management in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Review
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    Chapter 62 Ascertaining the Benefit Indexes of Life Cycle Assessment in the South African Construction Industry: A Hybrid Fuzzy Analysis Approach
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    Chapter 63 Delay Minimising Measures Used on Road Construction Projects in South Africa
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    Chapter 64 Improving Construction Productivity Estimation Techniques Through Realistic Labour Productivity Determinants
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    Chapter 65 Project Management Competencies for Embedding Sustainability in Construction Projects: A Delphi Study
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    Chapter 66 Stakeholder-Related Causes of Cost Overruns in the Namibian Construction Industry
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    Chapter 67 Examining the Expanded Public Works Programme in the Limpopo Province of South Africa
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    Chapter 68 Toward an Integrated SCM Model for the South African Construction Industry: Lessons from Shipbuilding
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    Chapter 69 Evaluating the Effect of Land Use Management Processes on Property Development in the City of Johannesburg
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    Chapter 70 Occupational Stressors Among Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in the Zambian Construction Industry: A Preliminary Study
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    Chapter 71 Upshots of Flood Prevalence on Ala River Basin and Connecting Neighbourhood in Akure, Ondo State of Nigeria
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    Chapter 72 Appraisal of Locational Impacts of Akure Shopping Mall on Connecting Environments
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    Chapter 73 Understanding Land Use Planning and Sustainable Development from the Perspective of Smart Groundwater Monitoring
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    Chapter 74 Pollution in the Urban Environment: A Research on Contaminated Groundwater in the Aquifers Beneath the Qoboza Klaaste (QK) Building at University of Johannesburg in South Africa
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    Chapter 75 Nexus Between Urban Landuses and Water Pollution
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    Chapter 76 Barriers to the Exploration of Land Resources for Construction Works in Osun State, Nigeria
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Title
Towards a Sustainable Construction Industry: The Role of Innovation and Digitalisation
Published by
Springer International Publishing, April 2023
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-22434-8
ISBNs
978-3-03-122433-1, 978-3-03-122434-8
Editors

Aigbavboa, Clinton, Thwala, Wellington, Aghimien, Douglas

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Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 17%
Lecturer 2 7%
Researcher 2 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 3%
Librarian 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 16 55%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 6 21%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Unknown 20 69%