Mujahed Thneibat

• PhD_Construction Engineering and Management
• Professor (Associate) at University of Jordan

Purpose Construction projects are significantly impacted by uncertainties, leading to time and cost overruns. Cost overruns pose a significant threat to the construction industry’s profitability. The potential benefits of recent advancements in machine learning (ML) models have not yet been fully utilized against such chronic threats. This research...

Unbalanced pricing in construction projects involves shifting the markup and sometimes a portion of the costs of certain items to other items in order to attain additional profit for the bidder if he wins the contract and/or increase his chance of being the lowest bidder. Unbalanced pricing is a common practice associated with competitive bidding f...

Purpose Public construction authorities need to evaluate the level of competition in the submitted bids for a certain project before awarding the contract. A lack of adequate competition is a reason for rejecting all bids and reissuing an invitation to bid for the project. This paper aims to present an analysis of the adequacy of competition in pub...

Purpose Skewed pricing is a typical tactic used by tenderers in unit price projects to gain additional advantages at the expense of the owner or other competing tenderers. This paper aims to describe the development of a model for detecting skewed pricing in competitive tendering for unit price contracts. Design/methodology/approach The model eval...

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of performance-based rewards on radical innovation. In doing so, it explores the role of knowledge acquisition and innovative work behavior (IWB) as possible mechanisms that underlie the relationship between performance-based rewards and radical innovation. The subsequent effect of IWB on promoting r...

Purpose This study aims to lay the groundwork for the potential application of value management (VM) in construction projects. This paper presents a critical review on the status of VM in a developing country and highlights the role of perceptions on critical success factors (CSFs) for the phases of VM studies, as the participants in a VM study sho...

Despite the rich literature about VM in construction, questions about how practitioners decide to adopt VM and what motivates adoption remain unanswered. The paper presents an Agent-Based Model as a microsimulation tool, where contractors and policy makers interact in a shared environment, to help understand the adoption of value management (VM) ba...

This study aims to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) of Value Management (VM) in construction projects in the context of developing countries. The article serves as a preliminary study on the status of VM in developing countries. A questionnaire survey and interviews with construction professionals have been conducted to highlight possib...

Recent studies have recognized material waste from construction projects as a serious problem for both economies and the environment. This research aims to identify the major causes of material waste in construction projects, determine the level of wastage for some selected materials and suggest strategies to manage and minimize wastage. In order t...

The saw-tooth connector is a device for high-capacity load transfer between steel and concrete. It is an embedded steel plate with a toothed outline which provides an extensive surface for contact pressure between the two materials. The connector creates an alternative to headed shear studs and perfobond rib shear connectors in composite structures...

In this paper, Gene Expression Programming (GEP) models are developed to select the appropriate ground improvement technique. Ground improvement is usually used to increase the soil bearing capacity, reduce potential settlement, and mitigate liquefaction. The data used to build the GEP models was collected from 83 ground improvement projects in the...

In light of climate change, population growth and urbanization, water resources are under severe pressure like never before. Many developing and even developed countries around the world have suffered from water scarcity, with more to come if no management actions take place. In response to these pressures, governments and water authorities have sh...