Journal of Management in Engineering: Recent submissions
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Occupational Health and Safety Challenges for Sustaining Construction Apprentice Programs
(ASCE, 2022/06/27)Managing effective apprentice programs is central to addressing the challenges posed by an aging workforce and skill shortages in the construction industry. However, the appeal of construction apprentice programs has ... -
What Explains the Rising Price of Highway Infrastructure?
(ASCE, 2022/04/27)The rising price to build transport infrastructure poses a challenge to governments. Our paper analyzes a period between 2005 and 2017, during which the price of highway construction increased by 68% on average across our ... -
Achieving Gender Balance in Engineering: Examining the Reasons for Women’s Intent to Leave the Profession
(ASCE, 2022/05/07)This paper explores the factors that influence male and female engineers’ intent to leave. An online questionnaire was completed by 183 female engineers and 229 male engineers. Factor analysis and structural equation ... -
Toward an Efficient Construction Process: What Drives BIM Professionals to Collaborate in BIM-Enabled Projects
(ASCE, 2022/04/29)As one of the emerging digital technologies, building information modeling (BIM) has been increasingly used in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry of many countries. One of the core benefits ... -
How Do Consulting Firms with Different Project Experience Configure Dynamic Capabilities?
(ASCE, 2022/04/22)Project-based firms (PBFs) have to sense and seize new project opportunities by dynamically adapting and reconfiguring resources and activities to survive in the fast and highly competitive business environment. Yet, it ... -
Linking Network Embeddedness and Team Members’ Informal Learning Effectiveness in Off-Site Construction Projects: An Opportunity–Motivation–Ability Perspective
(ASCE, 2022/06/28)Informal learning plays a major role in how knowledge, experience, and skills in off-site construction penetrate on-site and off-site processes. Although prior research has indicated that informal learning relies heavily ... -
Deep Learning–Based Automation of Scan-to-BIM with Modeling Objects from Occluded Point Clouds
(ASCE, 2022-03-28)As-built building information modeling (BIM) currently is regarded as a tool with the potential to manage buildings efficiently in the operation and maintenance phases. However, as-built BIM modeling is a labor-intensive ... -
Integrated Framework for Quantifying and Applying Nonworking Days to Planning and Scheduling for Determining Reasonable Construction Time
(ASCE, 2022-03-25)Determining a reasonable construction time (RCT) is crucial in project planning and schedule management. Construction projects are exposed to the external environment, including rainfall, extreme temperatures, snowfall, ... -
How the Well-Being of Construction Professionals Mediates the Effect of Work–Life Balance on Their Commitment to the Organization
(ASCE, 2022-04-07)The construction industry is notorious for poor work–life balance (WLB) due to its strong culture of long working hours, nonstandard work schedules, and variable work duration. Extant construction literature highlights ... -
Investigating the Agile Hybrid Approach in Construction
(ASCE, 2022-03-24)Rapidly developing technologies, fast evolving business needs, and increasing competition have forced construction companies to respond to changing conditions much faster in their projects. Agile project management, which ... -
Strategies to Achieve High Adoption of Organizational Change Initiatives within the AEC Industry
(ASCE, 2022-03-24)Organizations must be adept at managing the adoption of change initiatives. However, it is argued that more than half of change adoption efforts fail to reach their objectives. This study modeled the relationships between ... -
An Epistemic Context-Based Decision-Making Framework for an Infrastructure Project Investment Decision in Indonesia
(ASCE, 2022-03-16)Contextual information is a crucial delimitation that needs to be considered. A review of the literature suggests the need to develop a context-based decision-making framework (DMF) to improve the quality of the decision-making ... -
Untangling Employee Well-Being in Projects: A Configural Analysis of Job Stressors and Psychological Needs
(ASCE, 2022-03-30)Project employees suffer increasing pressures brought by uncertainty, complexity, and temporality, especially in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Complicated by both need-related factors and ... -
Defining and Assessing Visibility Enablers in the Industrial Construction Supply Chain
(ASCE, 2022-03-26)The visibility of material status information is vital to effective decision-making and improving supply chain performance. Information technologies (IT) have been developed to improve visibility through information sharing ... -
Measures to Improve the Mental Health of Construction Personnel Based on Experts’ Opinion
(ASCE, 2022-03-17)Increasing rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide in the construction industry have drawn the attention of researchers to consider mental health as an integral part of health and safety. However, prior research has ... -
Investigation of Operational Concerns of Construction Crane Operators: An Approach Integrating Factor Clustering and Prioritization
(ASCE, 2022-03-21)Safe operation of cranes is essential in the construction industry to ensure continuous gains in productivity and control potential hazards to workers on construction sites. In this research, which was based on ... -
Evolutionary Game Analysis of Green Loans Program to Achieve the National Carbon Emissions Reduction Target in South Korea
(ASCE, 2022-03-10)The green loans program has continued to attract attention as an effective measure for promoting green retrofit to reduce energy consumption in old buildings. Various external factors negatively affect the decision-making ... -
Effects of Digital Technology Adoption on Sustainability Performance in Construction Projects: The Mediating Role of Stakeholder Collaboration
(ASCE, 2022-03-09)Emerging digital technologies such as building information modeling (BIM) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have been widely adopted in construction projects and have attracted great attention from researchers and practitioners ... -
A Novel Approach to Capture Similarity in Capital Project Benchmarking: An Application to Healthcare Projects
(ASCE, 2022-02-28)For credible project benchmarking, like-for-like project comparison is a prerequisite to set realistic targets for improvement, especially when a heterogeneous sample of healthcare projects is compared to another. However, ... -
Optimal Strategies for Improving Organizational BIM Capabilities: PLS-SEM Approach
(ASCE, 2022-03-09)Building information modeling (BIM) is an emerging approach to managing the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of projects. However, the lack of organizational BIM capabilities prevents BIM from being generally ...