Emmanuel Chidiebere Eze

Emmanuel Chidiebere Eze
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Northumbria University · Architecture and Built Environment

M.TECH. (QS); B.TECH. Hons (QS); ND (QS)

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September 2022 - present
Federal University of Technology Owerri
Position
  • Lecturer II
June 2019 - present
Federal University of Technology Owerri
Position
  • Lecturer

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Publications (64)
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Despite the infrastructure development disparity between developed and developing nations, the reasons for the adoption of PPP procurement strategies by governments in these nations are the same. While PPP research has gained traction among researchers and academics across the globe, lots of the review-based studies on PPP have been either domain,...
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Digital technologies adoption and acceptance in the construction industry is low and this has been blamed for the inefficiencies and poor productivity problems in the sector. The purpose of this study was to examine research on technology adoption in construction, with a focus on those based on technology acceptance frameworks (TAF), to understand...
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The traditional, paper-centric infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) contracts have experienced record numbers of failures and terminations due to contract compliance issues, lack of trust and transparency, and information distortions. While studies on the adoption of blockchain and smart contracts in PPP are still growing, a quantitative...
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Purpose Building Information modelling (BIM) has the potential to significantly minimise the quantity of construction waste (CW), but its adoption is low in construction waste management (CWM). This study examined the factors impeding the adoption of BIM in CWM efforts at the design and precontract stages from the perspective of construction stakeh...
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This study investigated the awareness of the Nigerian construction organisations on some identified ML application areas, and the readiness of the organisations to adopt ML learning in the identified application areas. A comprehensive Literature review was undertaken to identify the application areas of ML, then, a well-structured questionnaire was...
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate barriers to the adoption of digital technologies (DTs) in the circular economy (CE) transition in the construction industry. The aim is to quantitatively investigate what the barriers to DTs-driven CE are in the Nigerian construction industry. Design/methodology/approach A review of existing lite...
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess the potential benefits of digital technologies (DTs) in bolstering the circular economy (CE) transition in the construction industry, to speed up the attainment of sustainable development objectives. Design/methodology/approach A detailed literature review was undertaken to identify DTs that could inf...
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The railway industry has witnessed increasing adoption of digital technologies, known as Railway 4.0, that is revolutionizing operations, infrastructure, and transportation systems. However, developing countries face challenges in keeping pace with these technological advancements. With limited research on Railway 4.0 adoption in developing countri...
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Building information modelling (BIM) adoption transforms how construction projects are delivered. Modular construction (MC) is a modern construction method that drives continuous improvement and value addition globally. BIM and MC offer enormous benefits in enhancing project delivery and attaining sustainable construction. This is a major driving f...
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Sustainable procurement (SP) is evolving in developing countries and frequently used as part of the procurement process in many developed economies. This allows procuring bodies to put into consideration social, economic, and environmental issues. Drivers and benefits towards SP implementation are vague especially in developing economy. This study...
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Earth-based materials are eco-friendly and harmless to the environment but have been neglected and relegated, and preference is given to non-sustainable and expensive conventional materials owing to certain factors. Existing studies in the Nigerian context did not consider the factors hindering the use of earthen materials in urban low-cost housing...
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Purpose Sustainable/Green building materials (SBMs/GBMs) offer a wide range of benefits which cut across the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability. The incorporation of these materials in construction projects in most developing countries is still low owing to some factors. This study assessed the major barriers to the inc...
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Purpose This paper aims to present the result of an assessment of the potential effect of building information modelling (BIM) adoption on the reduction of construction waste (CW) from a developing country's perspective. This was done with a view to reducing the waste generated in construction projects particularly at the design and pre-contract st...
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Earth-based materials are useful in building and engineering construction projects globally, but they have largely remained unextracted and wasted, and their use has been limited to rural areas and avoided in modern buildings in the cities. The sustainability market in developing countries is still largely unsaturated and undertapped. This situatio...
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Crowdfunding offers a great and robust source of funds for financing-built asset projects in Nigeria. However, its usage in the Nigerian context is not popular, despite its huge potential in the construction industry. This study assessed the factors influencing crowdfunding, its benefits, and limitation in financing-built assets in Nigeria. A well-...
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Financing is critical to the success of every construction project. Construction projects are capital intensive and require a sustainable flow of financial resources for project targets and objectives to be met. The purpose of this study was to examine the major finance sources in construction project delivery and their impacts on the construction...
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The construction industry plays an essential role in the life of every nation, as it makes a meaningful contribution to countries GDP, shelter and infrastructure provisions and employment generation. A critical problem that is challenging the delivery of these benefits to citizens is declining productivity among construction organisations, and pres...
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Delay is a phenomenon that impacts construction project baselines. Delays lead to majorly, time and cost overruns and other parameters, for which the construction industry has been highly criticised. While many delays manifest during construction, most of the foundational causes occur from inefficiencies and unknowns at the pre-contract stage. This...
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Construction projects are laden with different categories of risks and uncertainties which impact construction projects' objectives of time, cost, quality and safety performance. While risk management (RM) practices have evolved in developed countries, developing countries like Nigeria are still lagging due to awareness and knowledge issues. This h...
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Cost management practices have remained a vital aspect of project management functions. Despite the efforts of project management, construction projects are still being delivered above budget, with schedule overrun, poor quality and amongst other problems. Poor cost management approaches have been blamed for these problems. Effective cost managemen...
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The soaring growth in population and its effect on urbanization has necessitated the need for successive government especially in developing countries to meet the demands for infrastructure, buildings and other social amenities as they are exerting undue pressure on the real estate sector. This development has increased the rate of consumption of n...
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Construction projects are known to overrun their budgets and schedules, poor quality of works, wastages, loss of value and experiences increase in financial frauds. Construction audit is a critical tool for the control and monitoring of frauds and other corrupt practices. The failure of construction organisations to recognise how critical auditing...
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The complexity and fragmented nature and the multiple stakeholders in the construction industry often make it difficult to come up with a firm decision regarding sustainable building materials selection. The wrong choice could negatively impact the project objective and performance outcome. This study assessed the critical factor influencing the ch...
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The construction industry generates a large volume of waste which distorts the aesthetics of the environment and contributes to the impediments to achieving social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Construction waste impacts project schedule, cost, and derails contractor's profit, leading to claims and disputes. Construction...
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Building Information Modelling (BIM) is an innovative technology that has transformed the way construction projects are delivered. It has helped to overcome the problems of cost and time overruns, poor quality, safety issues, dissatisfaction, and loss of profit, among others; associated with the traditional method of project delivery. Despite the e...
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In complex and multi-stakeholder construction projects, delays and disruption are commonplace. Delays trigger the request for Extension of time (EoT) to enable adequate time for the project to be completed. Substantiating the need for EoT is a difficult task and requires a lot of effort. The administration of EoT claims come with a lot of issues to...
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Building information modelling (BIM) adoption is transforming the way construction projects are delivered. Modular construction (MC) is one of the modern construction methods that drive continuous improvement and value addition globally. BIM and Modular construction offer enormous benefits and potentials in enhancing project delivery and attaining...
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The purpose of this paper is to show by multivariate regression model if a defective procurement procedure leading to a contract award affects the smooth execution of a project in terms of its cost performance on the strength of the significance of the model. This investigation was conducted with a quantitative method of research by administering q...
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The construction industry is hazardous and experiences poor health and safety performance records; as a result of the abuse and negligence of health and safety policies. Emphasis is now on health and safety management as health and safety risks are now normalised in the construction industry by the actions of construction SMEs. The study assessed t...
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The intolerably high and frequent injuries and fatalities in the construction industry have made it remain one of the most dangerous and hazardous industry to work in. The poor health and safety performance of the Construction SMEs is attributed to their characteristics; which have contributed to the normalisation of H&S deviances. This study exami...
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ABSTRACT Risks encountered in oil and gas construction projects are enormous and this is as a result of risky nature of the projects. Effective risk responses are vital if risk management is to be efficient by reducing risk exposure for our projects. This study sought to appraise risk response techniques adopted for oil and gas construction project...
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The construction industry influences and accelerates national growth and development, but it, however, contributes to unsustainable and eco-unfriendly development which impacts on the economy and environment. To encourage investment in sustainable construction, this study made a case for green building materials (GBM) products and services market i...
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The construction sector is facing challenges of meeting client's value and end-user satisfaction, and this situation is worsened by customers' dynamic demands for quality and speedy delivery without loss of value. Lean concept has been advocated to be a panacea to poor project performance, and it, however, has a high awareness level but with little...
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Construction contracts globally are risks laden, and hardly can a construction project be delivered without experiencing any form of risks. The occurrence of risks leads to cost and time overruns, poor quality of work, rework, wastages, disputes and claims, abandonment, among other problems. Proper risk analysis could at least partially solve this...
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The prevalence of change requests and associated reworks that follows often leads to unnecessary and undesired consequences, especially with regards to the time, cost and quality performance of construction projects globally. Change orders and rework occur at the design and construction stages of building construction projects and managing the cons...
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The intense competitive pressure and the rapid modern technological changes as a result of the fourth industrial revolution have put the construction industry into a serious challenge of improving their products and services, in the face of subsisting poor performance records. The poor performance of construction projects in areas of time, cost, qu...
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The current industry practice of rate build-up for pricing unit rate cost of 225mm sandcrete block wall is laborious and narrative. In this study, a deterministic linear model is proposed to offset the repetitive workup process of traditional rate build-up. The approach adopted was using verifiable observations of productivity measuring methods nam...
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The process of rate build-up in the field of estimating in quantity surveying practice has not shown a significant laboratory science approach in terms of predictive abilities. The purpose of this study is to derive a unit rate model for pricing steel reinforcement (16mmØ) in construction works against the tedious and judgmental traditional rate bu...
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Despite the important role of the construction industry in national development, the construction industry suffers low performance in terms of time and cost overruns. This is due to its characteristics in terms of complexity and a large number of involved parties and a range of professionals. Quantity surveyors are among the main professionals with...
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Purpose Lack of strict compliance to the principles of total quality management (TQM) by construction organizations has brought about poor quality of the finished building projects. This has been blamed for the incessant structural failure reported in Nigeria. This study appraised TQM implementation in the Nigerian construction industry, with a vie...
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lot of failures and poor project performances reported on construction projects have been blamed on communication related problems. The effects of ineffective communication are usually high and they result from factors emanating from the management systems of construction organisations. This study examined the causes and effects of ineffective comm...
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The complex networks of activities of construction projects have made the construction environment unfriendly and unsafe for the construction tradespeople. Tradespeople play a key role in construction project delivery and are the major victims of accidents that affect negatively on project performance. This study assessed the perception of construc...
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Recurring problems in the delivery of construction projects have been time and cost overruns, poor quality, poor health and safety, waste and loss of value. This situation is worsened by the reluctance of construction organisations to fully implement lean construction technique which has proved to be an innovative solution to these problems. This s...
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Construction productivity defines the wealth of a nation as well as the well-being of its citizenry, because it plays a critical role in the overall economic development of a nation. However, there has been a reported decline in labour productivity which has led to poor delivery of construction projects. This issue has been among the leading cau...
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Data management and exchange of information within contractor organization or between contractors and/or consultant or clients are facilitated through effective information and communication technologies (ICTs) facility provisions. Information exchange happens in real time and jobs made easier through the use of electronic devices. In spite of the...
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Inefficient material management throughout the construction projects value chain has resulted to poor performance especially in terms of time, cost, quality, and productivity. Even well-organised large construction organisations still fall prey to this project performance killer; as adequate attention is not given to material management as a necess...
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Construction projects are data and information-laden, and there is the need to adopt and implement innovative ICT facilities in managing the volume of data and information generated; which hitherto are poorly handled. This is vital to exploit the opportunities presented by the strength that evolve from ICT adoption in corporate businesses. This stu...
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Default by contractors in meeting the time and cost performance of a project is usually counterproductive. Considering safety from the high financial burden of construction projects, clients are compelled to seek a level of guarantee in bonds to safeguard them from financial problems and provide incentive for proper and timely completion of the pro...
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Purpose- The aim of this study is to assess the factors limiting the full-scale adoption of process and product innovation by construction organizations in Nigeria with a view to suggesting probable ways of eliminating them Design/Methodology- The study adopted a questionnaire survey approach in which data were collected from the participants usin...
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Purpose- Innovation repositions and strengthens the competitive advantage and revenue drive of corporate businesses. The aim of this study is to assess the extent of the process and product innovation in Nigerian Quantity Surveying firms with a view to determining the innovative tools/concepts used. Design/Methodology- The study adopted a questio...
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The overall performance of construction firm is affected by productivity of its employees. This study employed work study approach to empirically establish the relationships between tradesmen demographic information and labour output on plastering and rendering operations. The data gathered were analysed using descriptive and inferential statis...
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Effective marketing plays an important role in the overall success of companies and it is critical for any business to grow in the competitive environment. However, construction firms are unyielding to the complete adoption of comprehensive and effective marketing strategies to improve their performance and position in competition within the constr...
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The construction industry plays a significant role in the infrastructure development of many countries. Construction projects suffer from a lot of setbacks despite sophistication and advancement in technology and pro­fessionalism. This study, therefore, assessed the factors that triggered the emergence of rework and the benefits derived from elimin...
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Rework has become a menace in the construction industry as it leads to undesired and unnecessary loss of efforts. It degrades project cost, quality and schedule performance, and it occurs at both the design and construction phases of construction projects. This study therefore examined the perception of construction professionals on the impact of r...
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Rework is systemic and a recurring decimal and It is triggered by several factors, which emergence create scenarios, which degrades project cost, quality and schedule performance, and overall project performance. This study therefore examined the perception of construction professionals on the factors that triggers the emergence of rework in the Ni...
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Rework has become a menace in the construction industry as it leads to undesired and unnecessary loss of efforts. It degrades project cost, quality and schedule performance, and it occurs at both the design and construction phases of construction projects. This study therefore examined the perception of construction professionals on the impact of r...
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Rework is a menace that leads to undesired and unnecessary loss of efforts, it degrades project cost and schedule performance of construction projects, both at design and construction phases. This study therefore, analyzed the impact of cost of rework on time and cost performance of building construction projects in Nigerian, using selected commerc...
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Material waste generated by the activities of the construction industry poses serious danger to both the construction projects concerned and the environment at large. Previous researches both at local and international level have neglected construction operatives and craft men who are the majority stakeholder. The study was aim to assess the percep...
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Quantity Surveyors are an asset to both the building clients and other professionals within and outside the construction industry. This is because quantity surveyors are in charge of financial matters and provide cost management expertise in the industry. Not fully knowing their roles as quantity surveyors have hindered their engagement by the publ...
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Quantity Surveyors are an asset to both the building clients and other professionals within and outside the construction industry. This is because quantity surveyors are in charge of financial matters and provide cost management expertise in the industry. Not fully knowing their roles as quantity surveyors have hindered their engagement by the publ...

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