Category Construction-blog

New PhD Thesis: “A framework to assess Safety Performance Measurement Systems for construction projects based on the Resilience Engineering perspective”

By Guillermina Andrea Peñaloza, Ph.D. As construction projects have become more complex – either due to the growth in the portfolio of projects or the characteristics of each unique project and construction site – the need for approaches to capture…

Improvisation in Construction

By Farook Hamzeh, Associate Professor, University of Alberta (hamzeh@ualberta.ca) Photo by Shivendu Shukla on Unsplash Managers of organizations always prefer planning and resourcing in a routine and repetitive environment (Weick, 1998). However, according to chaos theory, numerous organizational actions can…