reveal that the Nigerian construction industry is suffering from buildability problems. Buildability improvement is the duty … of clients in buildability improvement in Nigerian construction projects. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire … survey was adopted to evaluate construction industry professionals’ views on the roles of clients in buildability improvement …

Purpose The awareness and practice of buildability is still at its infancy stage in the construction sector of … developing countries. Information gleaned from literature shows that embedding buildability into practice is beneficial to … construction projects. This study seeks to examine the buildability attributes that are important for improving the practice of …

assess design buildability. Design/methodology/approach The study engaged 45 construction students from one selected tertiary … VR model to them, after which the students completed an online questionnaire and assessed design buildability using both … design buildability of the same building design using a 2D drawing and a 3D VR model. Findings The study found that VR models …

' involvement in design, value-based design, building information modeling (BIM) and buildability review enable the holistic …

is influenced by several factors, but buildability is among the most important. A thorough search of the literature … managers with tangible feedback on the impacts of the geometric buildability factors investigated upon the efficiency of …

Buildability is one of the most important factors affecting construction labour productivity. Nonetheless, an extensive …, especially at the rebar fixing trade level. Buildability factors affecting rebar fixing labour productivity of major structural … buildability factors on fixing labour productivity of beams. To achieve this objective, a large volume of productivity data was …

Although the buildability of building designs has not been commonly taken as an important parameter in design quality … assessment, previous studies have linked buildability to time, cost, quality and safety performance in many ways. Based on this … observation, the question arises of how buildability can be benchmarked and which aspects of project performance can be improved …