Accessibility protects the basic rights of a human being such as the right to receive facilities like healthcare, education and the right to do an occupation to earn one’s living etc. Therefore it is essential to develop ...

Causal relationships between construction and national economies have received considerable attention in the past. However, the results of research on this topic provide contrasting views about the nature of the relationship. ...

There are various models of retrieval mechanisms for effective video retrieval, however, ‘semantic gap’ still persists. This study aims to reduce the gap by providing a graphical user interface that allows user to express ...

Manufacturing flexibility is one of the key parameters that determine the organizational success in today’s volatile market. Layout flexibility as a subcategory of manufacturing flexibility plays a major role in handling ...

The role of undergraduate education in any country is widening gradually in new directions. A variety of external parties are increasingly keen on quality undergraduate education and construction education is no exception. ...

Construction industry delivers its products through project-based settings. Thus, project knowledge is central in construction context, which needs to be disseminated within organisations in order to improve organisation ...

As knowledge-intensive organisations, consultant organisations in the construction industry need to manage knowledge effectively to enhance both organisational performance and customer value. This research explores how ...

How can human beings learn to live well together? Two of the biggest challenges threatening human well-being and flourishing are climate change and global terrorism. Has engineering systems thinking anything to offer such ...

Toughness is arguably a better metaphor than resilience to describe the characteristics of wider systems for which the term ‘resilience’ is currently employed. This argument is presented by describing the various features ...

The experimental programme described in this paper indicated that concrete grade and specimen preconditioning were the major factors influencing sorptivity, whereas specimen size and coating had relatively little effect. ...