Monday Imafidon

University of Benin · Quantity Surveying

Many studies have examined the drivers and challenges of women in the construction industry, yet most did not explore the differences in these variables for women in white-collar and blue-collar job positions. This study was undertaken to ascertain the differences in the drivers and demotivators of women in white-collar and blue-collar construction...

Purpose To receive a satisfactory consultancy service, a construction client must first select suitable consultants. While numerous criteria for the selection of construction consultants have been suggested in the literature, their influence on client satisfaction has hardly been statistically established. This study aimed to reduce the criteria fo...

Almost all tertiary institutions' new construction projects in Nigeria have consultants. In spite of this, majority of projects in these institutions underperform due to poor management as a result of flaws in the selection of consultants. This study determined the order of priority of the criteria for the selection of consultants for public tertia...

This Lagos-based study provides an unsupervised grouping of the causes of building collapse in Lagos State Nigeria using purposively obtained data from construction professionals (n=34) in the state. Hierarchical cluster analysis technique and mean scores were used for the analyses. Findings show that the causes of building collapse in Lagos State...

Ready mixed concrete is becoming common in the Nigeria construction industry as it reduces labour cost and other associated costs. This study was aimed at developing a model to predict ready mixed concrete on-site dispatch time using concrete slump and volume. Primary data was the only data source and it was obtained through site observation for tw...

Purpose: “General items” is an important cost center in civil engineering projects given the complexities of facilitative works and support services that are normally required in such projects. However, extant literature makes little or no difference between preliminaries in building projects and general items in civil engineering projects. This st...