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Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The current organisational over-reliance on the use of metrics and indicators that are based only on tangible assets, and financial capital, for the measurement of construction performance has proven to be inadequate for the highly complex and dynami... Read More about Using Continuous Construction Performance Measurement as a Strategic Tool for Organisational Competitiveness.

Framing the barriers to construction industry transformation (2022)
Journal Article
Watts, G., McDermott, P., & Kolo, S. (in press). Framing the barriers to construction industry transformation. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/bepam-01-2022-0010

Purpose (limit 100 words) ‘Transforming construction’ is a wide-ranging strategic term, under which sit numerous initiatives. It is the latest, in a long line of strategies and reports introduced to with the intention of industry improvement. Arguabl... Read More about Framing the barriers to construction industry transformation.

Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria (2017)
Journal Article
Kolo, S., Rahimian, F., Goulding, J., & Akintoye, A. (2017). Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria. Procedia Engineering, 196, 512 - 519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.232

Despite several mitigation attempts, Nigeria is still facing a deficit of 17 million houses. Seminal literature argues that this problem is predominantly due to a myriad of issues, including high construction costs, skills shortages, the slow pace of... Read More about Review of motivations, success factors, and barriers to the adoption of offsite manufacturing in Nigeria.