Outputs (98)

Long-term satisfaction of resettled communities : an assessment of physical performance of post-disaster housing (2018)
Journal Article
Wijegunarathna, E., Wedawatta, G., Prasanna, L., & Ingirige, B. (2018). Long-term satisfaction of resettled communities : an assessment of physical performance of post-disaster housing. Procedia Engineering, 212, 1147-1154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.148

Sri Lanka experiences regular natural hazard-related disasters: flooding, landslides, cyclones and droughts. These events cause devastating effects in terms of human casualties, disturbing settlements and damaging properties. Besides human casualties... Read More about Long-term satisfaction of resettled communities : an assessment of physical performance of post-disaster housing.

Conclusions – summary, the status quo and future trends (2017)
Book Chapter

This chapter provides the concluding highlights of this book. Many past studies conducted in the construction industry confirm the positive impact of utilising ICTs, with an improving effect on costs, scheduling and quality. The various sections and... Read More about Conclusions – summary, the status quo and future trends.

Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter

The construction industry of most countries is considered the growth engine of the economy often acting as the regulator of economic activity. This makes it important to continually innovate its practice and processes. One of the primary ways of infu... Read More about Introduction.

Innovation in e-business : issues related to adoption for micro and SME organisations (2017)
Book Chapter

According to Kenny (2007), construction is a $1.7 trillion industry worldwide, amounting to between 5% and 7% of GDP in most countries and accounts for a significant part of the global gross capital formation a little under one-third. As noted across... Read More about Innovation in e-business : issues related to adoption for micro and SME organisations.

Capacity building for disaster risk reduction (2016)
Journal Article

An increasing number of devastating natural disasters have occurred during recent years. Climate change is set to worsen their incidence and impacts even further making the risk of disasters a global concern. The increased extent and intensity of dis... Read More about Capacity building for disaster risk reduction.

Manchester Central Library and Town Hall Extension Project : the BIM journey so far of a public sector client (2016)
Book Chapter
Underwood, J., Chomeniuk, J., Brady, L., & Woodcock, D. (2016). Manchester Central Library and Town Hall Extension Project : the BIM journey so far of a public sector client. In S. Perera, B. Ingirige, K. Ruikar, & O. Obonyo (Eds.), Advances in Construction ICT and e-Business. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315690698

May 2011 witnessed the UK Government’s commitment to support a transformation of the construction industry through the launch of their Construction Strategy (2011), which mandates BIM (Level 2) on all public procured projects by 2016. Since its launc... Read More about Manchester Central Library and Town Hall Extension Project : the BIM journey so far of a public sector client.

A resilience framework for critical infrastructure (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Infrastructures facilitate economic growth, protect human health and the environment and promote welfare and prosperity. Modern societies, therefore, rely heavily on continuous and reliable services provided critical infrastructure. Destructions to t... Read More about A resilience framework for critical infrastructure.

Theorizing construction industry practice within a disaster risk reduction setting : is it a panacea or an illusion? (2016)
Journal Article
Ingirige, B. (2016). Theorizing construction industry practice within a disaster risk reduction setting : is it a panacea or an illusion?. Construction Management and Economics, 34(7-8), 592-607. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2016.1200735

Construction industry practice is strongly influenced by the culture surrounding its operations and, with the prevailing emphasis on achieving efficiency, there is a strong focus on outcome metrics such as profitability and employee productivity. Wit... Read More about Theorizing construction industry practice within a disaster risk reduction setting : is it a panacea or an illusion?.

Mobile computing applications within construction (2016)
Book Chapter
Aziz, Z., Harun, N., & Alaboud, N. (2016). Mobile computing applications within construction. In S. Perera, B. Ingirige, K. Ruikar, & E. Obonyo (Eds.), Advances in Construction ICT and e-business. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315690698

Given the fact that construction sites comprise dynamic and unstructured work environments and hazardous work settings, it necessitates the use of intelligent ways to support mobile construction workers. In recent years, there have been significant d... Read More about Mobile computing applications within construction.

A conceptual framework for understanding resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events (2016)
Journal Article
Wedawatta, G., & Ingirige, B. (2016). A conceptual framework for understanding resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 6(4), 428-443. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-06-2015-0023

Purpose: Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which form a significant portion in many economies, are some of the most vulnerable to the impact of extreme weather events (EWEs). This is of particular importance to the construction industry, as... Read More about A conceptual framework for understanding resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events.