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Developing the Construction Procurement Methods in the UAE to Implement Building Information Modelling (BIM)
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-03)
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a revolutionary technology that presents strong potential to evolve the productivity and performance of the construction industry through improving the integration among stakeholders. ...
Innovation Strategies to design and deliver Resilient Critical Infrastructure Projects
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-07)
Critical infrastructure that considered the main artery of the economy and security for any country may get affected by different risks, challenges and threats, whether environmental (weather changes, earthquakes, volcanoes, ...
The Use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Construction: An exploration of current challenges for collaborative construction
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-05)
The Construction market represents more than 10% of the global economy, and the demand for infrastructure project is increasing due to population increase. Particularly, in the UAE, the construction market is considered ...
A Study on Impact of Change in Contractor’s Project Organization Structure on Project Performance
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-10)
Project organization structure is considered the most important tool that used by senior
management of construction organizations for communication, staff evaluation, decision
making and achieving the project objective. ...
The New Role of the Client in Adopting Innovation in Construction Projects
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-03)
The rate of innovation adoption in the construction industry has been witnessed to have risen due to an increased awareness in clients about the perceived benefits of innovation. Two important innovation examples that have ...
Nominated Subcontractors and the Principle of Privity under the UAE and English Laws
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-11)
The privity principle is one of the primary intact rules of contract among the international
jurisdictions. Applying the same however on the parties having no direct binding relationship
but they are connected by a ...
Dealing with Late Payments - A Challenge for UAE Small Scale Subcontractors?
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-11)
The small scale subcontractors provide an extremely important service to the construction industry in UAE and they carry out more than 50% of the actual execution of the works at site in major projects as direct subcontractor ...
The Influence of Transformational Leadership on Organisational Commitment in the Banking Sector of Pakistan
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-05)
The purpose of this dissertation is to learn about degree of diffusion of transformational and transactional leaderships across the banking sector in Pakistan and its subsequent impact on innovation and organisational ...
How risky sukuk are: comparative analysis of risks associated with sukuk and conventional bonds
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-05)
Recent issues of Islamic bonds were “welcomed” with broad criticism, both by Islamic scholars and conventional investors. Presented paper attempts to analyze sukuk-associated risks and problems, and review their competitiveness ...
Solutions for the UAE Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry to mandate Building Information Modeling (BIM)
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-04)
For decades the construction industry has been challenged to improve its efficiency, therefore several attempts have been recorded proposing different initiatives. At the moment Building Information Modeling (BIM) is rapidly ...