Muhammad Jamaluddin ThaheemDeakin University · School of Architecture and Building
Muhammad Jamaluddin Thaheem
PhD Construction Engineering and Management
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Introduction
Basically a civil engineer, and currently a hardworking and ambitious researcher with objectives to carry out research of high caliber in the field of 'Engineering Risk Management' to yield functional and efficient theories, tools, model and methodologies.
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Education
November 2009 - March 2014
December 2001 - March 2006
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Publications (128)
Construction safety is often overlooked but is critical for successful site operations, especially in developing countries, where accidents and fatalities are common. The authors of this study conducted a cost–benefit analysis of construction safety and identified 33 key barriers and safety costs through expert evaluation and a literature review. B...
The construction industry is slowly embracing digitalisation in line with the Industry 4.0 revolution and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, progress has been sluggish due to stakeholders’ limited awareness of digital skills. This study addresses this issue by developing a comprehensive taxonomy of digital skills required to successfu...
The healthcare industry significantly impacts the environment due to its high usage of energy and natural resources and the associated waste generation. This study applied a cradle-to-grave Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) approach to assess the environmental and social life cycles of public hospitals. One hundred twenty-four public hosp...
There is a growing face-value acceptance of optimism bias as the primary cause of transport cost overruns. This article provides a timely review of literature on optimism bias and transport infrastructure project cost overruns. The article identifies significant gaps and unanswered questions about the relationship between optimism bias in project c...
Circularity is finding its feet in construction. Several Building Circularity Indicators (BCIs) have been developed to measure buildings' Circular Economy (CE) potential, but none of them has been standardized. Currently, the BCIs methodologies lack consensus on CE definition and scope, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and various other technical...
A surge in energy demand driven by the growing number of buildings and insufficient attention to sustainable and optimised energy-saving procedures are likely to threaten the economy and the environment. The building envelope is a significant component that influences energy requirements, directly affecting the operations costs. Thus, the current s...
Construction projects are complex endeavors where achieving higher quality standards is challenging due to the intrinsic difficulties and dynamic quality management processes. Several quality management techniques exist to overcome quality concerns, such as the cost of quality (COQ). However, implementing COQ in building construction is challenging...
This study aims to analyze how organizational culture can affect social sustainability indicators. Through an extensive review of the literature with a qualitative systems-based approach, multiple factors of organizational culture and social sustainability indicators are identified. Moreover, linkages and interdependencies among them in a complex s...
Building information modeling (BIM) through data-rich digital representation has revolutionized the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. BIM implementation in the AEC industry has noticeably increased over the last decade. Various BIM roles have been discussed in the literature to ease the process of BIM implementation, but t...
Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contracts provide a suitable framework for projects where significant interdisciplinary engineering expertise is required primarily for large-scale industrial projects, such as power generation, chemical processing plants, oil and gas projects, and mining developments. To execute such projects an EPC contr...
Safety is a well-researched yet underperforming management aspect of the construction industry. Building information modeling (BIM) can help, and some frameworks have addressed safety management in limited phases of the project lifecycle. This study positions BIM centrally in the safety management process and develops a safety management framework...
Optimism bias has been considered an important cause of cost underestimation in transport infrastructure project appraisal in recent project management literature. However, little research has critically examined the current understanding of the nature, dynamics, and impact of this cognitive bias in the context of transport cost appraisal. This sys...
With time, construction waste is increasing massively and its dumping is a serious issue globally. Utilizing the waste in various products and construction projects is boosting, but still, the amount of waste is much higher. Transitions to more sustainable construction can assist in attaining the specific goal of slowing down natural resources depl...
Public–private partnerships attained global attention for public service delivery in perspective of market liberalization, rise of new public management and global financial crises. It became popular in developing countries like Pakistan amidst recent economic growth, low financial capabilities, and infrastructure deficits. Little knowledge exists...
This study addressed the complexity involved in integrating the causative risk factors influencing construction profitability. Most of the existing studies cover the individual effects of profitability influencing factors. Very few focus on the systematic impact without incorporating the complexity and associated dynamics, presenting a gap targeted...
Building materials with a low environmental impact are critical to the sustainability of the built environment. The environmental impact of materials can be determined by a Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), which constitutes multiple parameters such as the water used in a material's life cycle. To use the LCIA approach for building material sele...
Despite its importance and appeal, the social dimension of sustainability in construction
projects is less explored and lacks a comprehensive and standardized framework. This diminishes the holistic view of sustainability. The existing customized frameworks make the selection of factors challenging across different contexts. Eventually, the practit...
Risk management is an ever-growing domain of research that is constantly evolving with the development of new and advanced technologies and processes, along with today’s increasing concern for sustainability [...]
The circular economy (CE) paradigm can eradicate the problems caused by the traditional linear economic approach adopted by the building industry. But the efforts to implement CE in the building and construction industry are fragmented and lack consensus. If improved, the ability to measure and report on progress can help in effectively transiting...
Purpose – The construction industry struggles in environmental and economic performance due to waste generation. Several studies have measured this waste in the construction industry of developing countries like India, Brazil, China, Nigeria and Iran, and proposed strategies to enhance the overall efficiency. But no such work exists in Pakistan’s c...
Integrating sustainability in the risk management process is an emergent problem, especially for efficient infrastructure delivery. For the case of complex projects like public–private partnerships (P3), traditional management practices offer a limited capacity to address long-ranging risk impacts on the social, economic, and environmental fabric w...
Manual inspection of infrastructure damages such as building cracks is difficult due to the objectivity and reliability of assessment and high demands of time and costs. This can be automated using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for aerial imagery of damages. Numerous computer vision-based approaches have been applied to address the limitations of...
Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) involves the managing of information,materials, cash flows, and collaboration among enterprises along the supply chain, integrating sus-tainable development goals. This research paper aims to determine challenges in SSCM adoptionand to address related complexity using the system dynamics (SD) approach util...
PurposeBuildings consume a large amount of energy for space cooling during the summer season, creating an overall sustainability concern. The upfront cost associated with sustainability repels the decision-makers to often end up adopting solutions that have huge operations and maintenance costs. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the...
Water scarcity has become a major problem for many countries, resulting in decliningwater supply and creating a need to find alternative solutions. One potential solution is rainwaterharvesting (RwH), which allows rainwater to be stored for human needs. This study developsan RwH assessment system through building information modeling (BIM). For thi...
Delivery of sustainable buildings requires infusing sustainability criteria into project decisions. Hiring a suitable contractor and consultant for the delivery of green buildings is critical to ensuring sustainable procurement. Plus, introducing sustainability criteria in the prequalification process can improve stakeholder agreement on project ob...
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is recognized as one of the most significant technological breakthroughs in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. The pace of implementation of BIM in AEC has increased during the past decade with an enhanced focus on sustainable construction. However, BIM implementation lags its potenti...
Rapid advances that improve flood management have facilitated the disaster response by providing first aid services, finding safe routes, maintaining communication and developing flood maps. Different technologies such as image processing, satellite imagery, synthetic imagery and integrated approaches have been extensively analysed in the literatur...
The construction industry is different from other industries in terms of its unforeseeable working conditions. Unlike most of the other industries operating indoors within controlled environment, the construction workers share a fair amount of time outdoors exposing them to different climatic and workability. These transfigurations contribute towar...
Real Estate Online Platforms (REOPs) are used for conveying real estate and property-related informationto potential users (buyers, renters, or sellers). The information leveraged through REOPs supports theseusers in reaching conclusive rent or buy decisions. Despite their promised utility, user perception aboutaccepting online information through...
Construction organizations are challenged with effective management of their human resource (HR) as both are integral to each other. But the state of practice in the developing countries is not encouraging and construction professionals found themselves less motivated and enthusiastic about their job. This pushes to study the motivational needs of...
The real estate sector brings a fortune to the global economy. But, presently, this sector is regressive and uses traditional methods and approaches. Therefore, it needs a technological transformation and innovation in line with the Industry 4.0 requirements to transform into smart real estate. However, it faces the barriers of disruptive digital t...
Economic growth, social wellbeing, and infrastructure are strongly interrelated and jointly contribute to national development. Therefore, evaluation and selection of a road infrastructure project direly need a comprehensive sustainability assessment integrating holistic decision criteria. This study presents an elaborate life cycle sustainability-...
Sustainable smart cities are confronted by technological, organisational and external risks, making their governance difficult and susceptible to manipulation. Based on a comprehensive literature review of 796 systematically retrieved articles, the current study proposes a multilayered technology-organisation-environment (TOE-based) risk management...
Women are underrepresented in almost all occupations and professions within the construction sector. Consequently, several studies from across the globe have examined different aspects of gender inequality and gender segregation in the context of the construction industry. This study conducted an in-depth inquiry into research on women in construct...
Purpose
The purpose of this research is to determine a comprehensive coursework for teaching quality management in the universities of developing countries i.e. Pakistan pertinent to the construction industry. Additionally, a framework was also developed based on the results.
Design/methodology/approach
Factors and course contents of quality manag...
The basic purpose of a hospital is to provide a cure to the ailing patients. Since the patients are already suffering from ailments, the hospital must be a place for comfort and mental peace. Indoor Environmental Quality plays a vital role in maintaining that comfort. The hospital building must be designed on the standards to provide the required t...
Competitiveness is a complex domain with multiple perspectives and a vast range of definitions, meanings, and measures. Therefore, it is challenging to create an appropriate framework to evaluate the competitiveness of an ever-changing and evolving construction industry. This study captures the contractor's perspectives about the competitiveness of...
The building sector is amongst the major resource consuming and waste generating sectors of the economy. The paradigm of the circular economy has the potential to overcome the problems resulted due to adoption of the linear economic model by the building sector. The circular economy offers a new perspective for industrial ecosystems including mater...
Healthcare facilities provide a cure from the ailment while maintaining a clean environment. A high indoor environmental quality (IEQ) can improve the recovery process and create a pleasant working environment, while a poor IEQ causes nosocomial diseases that are harmful to the patients as well as the hospital staff. To assess the state of IEQ in s...
Complexity and risks directly influence the profitability of construction projects.
Therefore, among other success criteria for construction firms, profitability cannot be improved
without managing these project risks. The purpose of this study is to explore interconnection of
project complexity factors and their impact on profitability through sys...
The supply side of sustainable housing needs to be complemented with, driven by, and shaped around a willing and committed demand site. This study examines the sustainable housing sector of Pakistan by describing the potential buyers' profile and quantifying their willingness to pay (WTP) for sustainable housing uptake in the market. WTP is estimat...
A cursory review of the Building Management System (BMS) which optimizes building performance as a move towards smart cities has been presented in the present study. The extant study is an effort to distinguish and analyze the circumstances as if the underdeveloped economies are less likely to be benefitted by the contemporary trends of BMS as comp...
Purpose
Despite the efforts of project managers and the widespread use of project management methodologies, most of the projects remain unfulfilling in terms of delivering targeted performance. This for most part can be attributed to the inability of an organization to implement control mechanisms and ineffective management of complexity risk. Keep...
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Rising demand and limited production of electricity are instrumental in spreading the awareness of cautious energy use, leading to the global demand for energy-efficient buildings. This compels the construction industry to smartly design and effectively construct these buildings to ensure energy performance as per design expectations. However, the...
The complex and dynamic nature of construction projects, due to intricate design and involvement of several direct and indirect stakeholders, exposes them to various risks. These risks may cause cost and time overruns. A construction schedule is instrumental in monitoring the whole process. Past research has identified various factors causing proje...
The relationship between the perceived fairness of administering projects' claims and contractors' reduced potential to disputes is probably missing in published literature in the context of engineering ethics. In the current research, the moderating effect of engineering ethics is explored in relationship between perceived fairness and contractors...
It is nowadays an accepted fact that built environment is one of the major anthropogenic exploiters of nature as building consume a great amount of resources in the form of energy, materials and water which ultimately causes GHG emissions, resource depletion and waste generation. The concept of sustainability in building sector has not only put for...
Construction in developing countries is often encountered with multifarious challenges including contractor's performance due to lack of qualification and resources. The lowest bid criterion is binding in public procurements. However, contractors exploit the loopholes in the bid process management system. This paper scrutinizes the prevalent rules...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate critical barriers hindering the adoption of green supply chain management (GSCM) and the opportunities that can be exploited with such an implementation in the construction industry of developing countries. It also devises strategies to avoid critical barriers in implementation and exploit opportu...
Purpose
The formal application of project risk management (PRM) in green building projects is still an emergent part of project management. The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual PRM framework that increases the probability of success in green building projects by minimizing unexpected events.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper i...
Purpose
The formal application of project risk management (PRM) in green building projects is still an emergent part of project management. The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual PRM framework that increases the probability of success in green building projects by minimizing unexpected events.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper i...
Deplorable safety management practices are damaging the reputation of construction sector. Though legislation has specified rules and regulations for safety improvement, the state of violation is still alarming. Its root causes are unavailability of information and lack of integration of core data with other project activities. The technology that...
Purpose
The purpose of this research is to quantify the effect of stakeholder conflicts on project constraints in the construction industry using ordinal regression analysis. For this purpose, the most significant project constraints and factors that cause stakeholder conflicts found in the literature are measured.
Design/methodology/approach
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Risk is inherent in construction projects and managed through contingency. Dynamic management of contingency escrow accounts during project execution poses decision-making challenges. Project managers use key performance indicators (KPIs) for contingency release decisions. However, their subjective mental models influence risk perception, exacerbat...
Healthcare buildings are energy and water intensive, which remarkably impacts their sustainability. They also share a larger portion of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) has been rating healthcare buildings under a separate category of Building Design and Construction (BD + C): Healthcare to ac...
Cities in Pakistan, because of rapid pace of urbanization, are unable to provide adequate housing supply to cater to the needs of the people. Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, has a population of two million with a growth rate of six percent. Construction of apartment buildings, as one of the alternatives to fulfil the housing needs, is on the ri...
Urban surroundings and spaces are losing their identity due to the flooded visual pollution in the urban panorama of already densely populated cities in developing countries. Quantitative assessment of visual pollution and its spatial mapping; both are very recent and relatively un-explored branches of urban studies. The diversity of visual polluti...
Fast-tracking the large infrastructure projects through overlapping design and construction levitates multifaceted risks aggravating project complexity critical to efficient planning. Traditional risk management largely treats risk independently ignoring their interrelationships, limiting the understanding of the strength of risk nuclii of the proj...
With increasing focus on more nuanced aspects of quality of life, the phenomenon of urban visual pollution has been progressively gaining attention from researchers and policy makers, especially in the developed world. However, the subjectivity and complexity of assessing visual pollution in urban settings remain a challenge, especially given the l...
Building information modeling (BIM) is an encouraging development in the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industry due to its data-rich digital representation of building components. Although BIM is technically mature, its legal and contractual systems are yet to be standardized. Motivated by this need, the current stu...
The determination of the concession period (CP) in public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects presents complexities to decision makers because various critical success factors (CSF) are involved which may be overlooked. This paper outlines a system dynamics (SD)-based approach to provide an in-depth understanding of CSFs that determin...