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'What is on-site construction effective?'
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Ajayi, S.O., Oyedele, L.O., Bilal, M., Akinade, O.O., Alaka, H.A. and Owolabi, H.A., 2017.
Critical management practices influencing on-site waste minimization in construction
projects. Waste management, 59, pp.330-339.
In the construction industry, on-site areas are prone to waste. The authors in this article
identify a few factors and strategies to be useful in minimizing the waste from the site. The
authors say that the construction site managers by sticking strictly with the project drawings can
keep the waste under control level. There should not be any new design presented to project
drawings. Indeed, it should be left as it is. In addition to these precautions, a few points of
consideration can also be useful in the purpose. These factors are contractual provisions for
waste minimization, maximization of materials reuse, waste segregation and effective logistic
management.
Bryde, D., Broquetas, M. and Volm, J.M., 2013. The project benefits of building
information modelling (BIM). International journal of project management, 31(7), pp.971-
980.
The authors say that current inefficiencies from site projects can be eliminated by using
BIM. A building information model can capture as well as map the underground hidden
conditions including also the utilities. This means BIM adds more creativity to construction
projects. It enables building owners to pay less for the utilities. Besides, facility managers can
also easily identify the maintenance needs of the site. Hence, a potential threat of uncertain
accidents can thus be avoided and so, its associated cost. Nevertheless, BIM helps make the
building at a cheaper cost and faster rate while also not compromising the quality.

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Djajalaksana, M.L., Zekavat, P.R. and Moon, S., 2017. Effectiveness of On-Site
Communication in Residential Housing Projects. In ISARC. Proceedings of the
International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (Vol. 34). IAARC
Publications.
The authors here highlight the significance of effective communication in the effective
completion of the construction project. Although effective communication is necessary for
implementing anything related to on-site construction, it generally faces many barriers. The site
construction engineers are generally good in communication; however, they somehow find it
difficult to establish the same across the construction site. It can be because the construction site
has many people not good at communication. It can be due to many other barriers as well. The
list of barriers can be identified by encouraging the site construction engineers to share their
feedback on barriers faced by them in establishing effective communication processes on site.
Tahir, M.Z., Nawi, M.N.M. and Rajemi, M.F., 2016, August. The potential of value
management (VM) to improve the consideration of energy efficiency within pre-
construction. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1761, No. 1, p. 020102). AIP Publishing
LLC.
Energy inefficiency has always been a common issue for construction projects. Even
today there are many construction projects in both developed and developing nations, which
follow the conventional method of the construction process. The conventional construction

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process is less energy effective and costlier as well. In this paper, the authors present the concept
of Value Management (VM) to attain energy efficiency. VM enables to design of the
construction process at the pre-construction stage in such a way that the use of energy can be
significantly reduced to attain energy efficiency.
Ganah, A.A. and John, G.A., 2017. BIM and project planning integration for on-site safety
induction. Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology.
The authors address the health and safety concerns of the construction sites. The study
emphasizes on the use of computer-generated guidelines on the health and safety aspects of on-
site construction areas. BIM, as shown in this study, can be used to support an H&S toolbox. The
paper gives a very good discussion on the usefulness of BIM about the health and safety
standards of on-site construction areas. The use of BIM will produce many easy guidelines for all
practitioners. Hence, the safety rate of the site should also go up with the utilization of BIM in
drafting the health and safety documents.
Kärnä, S. and Junnonen, J.M., 2016. Benchmarking construction industry, company and
project performance by participants’ evaluation. Benchmarking: An International Journal.
Benchmarking (BM) applied to the construction industry can yield many potential
benefits. Benchmarking in construction projects can be applied to many work areas and different
individuals. Hence, BMs are applicable to consultants, architects/designers, main contractors,
sub-contractors, etc. The different BM categories include staff project management, project goal
accomplishment and collaboration. The authors found that the participants were satisfied with

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the outcomes of applying BM to the construction project. They could really improve
performances. However, risk management and design management process are still the problem
areas.
Hasmori, M.F., Zin, A.F.M., Nagapan, S., Deraman, R., Abas, N., Yunus, R. and Klufallah,
M., 2020, January. The on-site waste minimization practices for construction waste. In IOP
Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering (Vol. 713, No. 1, p. 012038). IOP
Publishing.
The development works have continued in the construction sites despite the growing
waste problems in the construction area. It is due to this there are growing negative impacts on
the environment, site productivity, the cost-effectiveness of the project, social environment and
so forth. The growing site wastes are mainly due to ineffective waste management practices.
Indeed, the study says to follow effective waste management practices to reduce the waste
amount of construction areas. Many waste management strategies could be extremely beneficial
in reducing the waste amount of the on-site construction area. These are using low-waste
construction technology, standardization of design and material, waste segregation and so forth.
Nanayakkara, S., Perera, S. and Senaratne, S., 2019. Stakeholders’ Perspective on
Blockchain and Smart Contracts Solutions for Construction Supply Chains. In CIB World
Building Congress.
The authors observe that the construction industry offers one of the most complicated
structures that have many unresolved issues. One of these issues is preventing the details of
contracts from any potential hack to be a case in a less secure environment of communication

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exchange between the different stakeholders of a project. The authors identify the use of
'Blockchain' technology as essential to the modern contract process. Blockchain will provide
many benefits to the modern contract process such as trust, efficiency, security, fairness,
compliance, transparency, accountability and standardization.
Li, H. and Liu, J., 2018. Construction Site Safety Management Research Based on BIM
Technology. Management & Engineering, (33), pp.3-11.
The construction of skyscrapers has exceedingly grown in China. It is due to which the
construction sites have also been vulnerable to many safety issues. The authors say that
skyscrapers are built over a very long-time span. Due to the longevity of the project, the project
gets contaminated with numerous safety issues. The authors have investigated the kind of safety
issues, which could be a part of a skyscraper project. Following these, the authors shortlisted the
numerous benefits of using BIM technology. BIM can be used effectively to combine BIM
security features with the project and prevent the project to be vulnerable to any site safety
issues.
Okoye, P.U., Ezeokonkwo, J.U. and Ezeokoli, F.O., 2016. Building construction workers’
health and safety knowledge and compliance on site. Journal of Safety Engineering, 5(1),
pp.17-26.
The authors investigated the workers’ knowledge and compliance on the health and
safety aspects of site work. It was being found that knowledge and compliance on safety
measures are not only sufficient to facilitate a safe construction site working. There are many

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other factors apart from these, which should be implemented to site works to ensure maximum
security from numerous safety issues. These are management commitment to safety activities,
workers’ involvement in the adherence of safety activities and strict enforcement of regulations
to safeguard the site practice. Without the heartiest supports of the workers, the safety parameters
cannot be implemented easily.
Sergeeva, N. and Duryan, M., 2019. Knowledge management as an enabler of sustainable
innovation across supply chain in the construction industry. In ISPIM Conference
Proceedings (pp. 1-17). The International Society for Professional Innovation Management
(ISPIM).
The author in this study identifies the importance of knowledge management in
establishing and sustaining the culture of innovative thinking in project-based firms. By having
the pre-competitive innovation embedded into the system, project-based firms can identify the
new ways of handling an activity. They will be identifying the superior ways of doing each task
related to construction projects. By lifting the pre-competitive innovation, the project-based
firms will be left with two options such as to follow competitive innovation or incremental
innovation. An adherence to competitive innovation can even throw someone out of the business.
The article suggests using pre-competitive innovation. Project-based companies not adhering to
pre-competitive innovation should instead look to craft their strategies around incremental
innovation.

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Zain, A.F.M., Hasmori, M.F., Nagapan, S., Abdullah, A.H. and Yunus, R., 2018. A Review
of Construction Management Practices in Minimizing On-Site Construction
Waste. Journal of Adv Research in Dynamical & Control Systems, 10(6).
The authors in their study discuss the growing waste problems in the construction sites in
Malaysia. They say that growing construction works have also increased waste problems. The
conventional method of disposing of the waste to landfills will no longer apply to the
construction industry. The authors have rather found waste as a major problem for the
construction industry. Any preventive measure cannot be fully implemented as contractors are
mainly taking concerns about the cost-benefit outcomes of the project. It is not bad to think about
the cost-benefit outcomes of a project; however, it should not come at the cost of safety
challenges. Safety measures should also be given importance.