Construction industry is the necessary national backbone in developing countries. Consultants are the stakeholders who supplies objective and independent external service to the client. Consulting is gradually becoming ...

Building Adaptive Reuse (BAR) has been recognized to be a viable option to deal with old building stock in spite of the trivial decision of either demolish or reuse. An objective scale to gauge the accuracy of this choice ...

Cost estimating in construction is critical at the early stage of the project in order to determine whether the project is feasible or not to the client. Cost estimators are facing numerous difficult moments due to ...

Disputes free subcontract is a key to success of modern construction industry which largely depends on subcontracting. Since this effort has to be made on the expense of time and cost, which can be used otherwise to add ...

Inefficient buildings use three to five times the energy as efficient buildings. Herein, improving the Energy Efficiency (EE) of buildings, specifically existing buildings that account for a large part of the building ...

Corporate activities have a major impact on society environment, thus the concern and pressure on corporate activities become a recurrent theme. Especially, the operations of corporates in the built environment is highly ...

As a result of increased attention towards sustainability worldwide, green concepts have become popular in the construction industry. Green roof is one of the essential elements in a green building that provide many ...

Government expenditure is rising yearly. Maintenance expenses of government building and their services also contributes to this expense. So, productive maintenance within the government sector is increasingly required ...

Concrete is one of the most used construction materials; however, it contributes to about 7% of all carbon emissions. Various supplementary cementitious materials such as flyash have been considered to enhance concrete ...

The purpose of this research is to enable Facilities Management (FM) decision makers to identify key FM interventions that add value to the organisations and to manage a successful implementation and to measure the ...