A positive safety culture is crucial for improving the safety performance in construction workplaces. Although there are substantial efforts to achieve a high level of safety culture, the traditional approaches may not be ...

Competitive dialogue (CD) is a relatively new procurement procedure introduced in 24 by the European Parliament for particularly complex contracts. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) has limited experience ...

Construction workers face the possibility of exposure to nanomaterials, which are particles smaller than asbestos. Nanomaterials exposure is expected to increase in coming years because of the advantages and desirable ...

The majority of qualitative risk assessment studies on construction projects assess manageability indicators (e.g., detectability, preventability, and controllability) independently of risk probability and impact, two ...

A contractor’s continued financial health throughout a construction project is a basic requirement for successful project completion. Therefore, project owners must be conversant with the contractor’s financial capability ...

Public–private partnerships (PPP) have been widely applied in infrastructure projects in developing countries. However, many projects have been abandoned or canceled owing to an insufficient understanding of risk factors, ...

Adequate assessment of risk is essential to assist the stakeholders in planning for efficient risk allocation and mitigation and to ensure success in business and projects. However, it is problematic due to the difficulty ...

Construction project environments are shaped by uncertainty and complexity; therefore, conflict situations that lead to time and cost overruns are rather frequent. However, no empirical studies conducted so far have analyzed ...