Construction Scheduling, Quality and Risk Management

Dear Colleagues,

To: professionals involved in civil engineering, construction management, facilities design, construction scheduling, risk management, quality assurance, and environmental studies.

The construction industry has been underperforming for many decades, as evidenced by the declining productivity, cost and schedule overruns, and serious quality concerns. Approximately 70 percent of projects exceed their anticipated budgets and schedules. Owner satisfaction with the built environment falls short of the experience in other economic sectors, both service and manufacturing. Clearly, bold, informed action is needed.

You are invited to submit a paper for a  Special Issue of Buildings. Buildings is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on building science, building engineering, and architecture, published monthly online by MDPI. The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) is affiliated with Buildings, and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges.

The main aim of this Special Issue on “Improving Construction Delivery” in Buildings is to create a collection of articles and/or papers from scholars and authors who have an interest in one or more of three areas: risk management, construction scheduling, and quality assurance. The aim is to have this collection serve as a body of knowledge that like-minded researchers can benefit from and leverage into even more advanced methodologies and cutting-edge research in these respective areas.

The editors are especially interested in the application of technology to construction scheduling as well as quality assurance and quality management. Lean construction may also serve an important role in creating agile construction schedules that can adapt quickly to changing field conditions.

Please submit an abstract that describes a paper, article, or documented research in one of the three areas of interest: risk management, construction scheduling, and quality assurance.

The abstract should be approximately 70 to 100 words long and should preferably focus on one of the areas in order to have a more detailed coverage of the subject.

Prof. Dr. Syed M. Ahmed
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.