Recent changes in the global construction industry coupled with rising challenges as a result of the dynamic nature of offshore operations have greatly underscored the need for stakeholders to evolve safety management systems that optimize safety during the execution of their construction...

The construction industry plays a vital role in boosting the global economy. From the reviewed literature, studies indicate that the industry is also hazardous and frequently accident prone. This study examined safety practices of construction industry in Nigeria and the United Kingdom with a...

Project Management in most developing countries today continues to be fractured in its structure and approach thereby triggering high degrees of failure, abandonment or collapse of most government and private organisation projects. The resultant effect of this has been a colossal wastage of...

Significant research on risk management has focused on the development and assessment of risk management models. However, risk management has been often criticized as being inadequate and not achieving its main objectives of bringing greater certainty to projects by minimizing threats and...

Risk management practice continues to be well recognised and integrated as a key function of the project management process in most industry’s. Literature has established that it is rapidly becoming an indispensable approach adopted by the oil and gas sector for achieving strategic business...

The first textbook of its kind, taking a uniquely global approach to project management in construction. Using a wealth of case studies from around the world to explain theory and practice, the authors take a business-oriented, decision-making approach to project management and the challenges it...

One major theoretical issue that has dominated the construction field for many years, concerns the general misconception that lean can only be successfully applied to manufacturing. Its introduction into design and construction industry has been slow due to a conflation of reasons including...

It has been widely acknowledged that maturity models provide organisations with benefits when implementing a change or improvement strategy. The construction industry has shown particular interest in maturity models as it increasingly seeks to manage organisational change. One type of change...

Research on knowledge integration across organizational boundaries is still very limited because of the assumption that knowledge is a critical asset, which should be secured within organizational boundaries. A variety of knowledge management frameworks have presented the same common...

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to examine UK shale gas viability. The recent commitment to shale gas exploration in the UK through fracking has given rise to well-publicised economic benefits and environmental concerns. There is potential for shale gas exploration in different parts of...