Sherif Mohamed

University of Southern Queensland  · School of Surveying and Built Enviornment

The Australian Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) Summit in 2018 attracted much-needed national attention towards environmental goals and targets compared with other aspects of sustainability. Road infrastructure is the backbone of modern society and plays a crucial role in accomplishing a targeted balance between these aspects of sustainabili...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought global economies to a standstill and created challenges for a variety of sectors, including housing, building and infrastructure. Many business and government organisations have experienced some form of supply chain disruption—either through suppliers going offline, a sudden spike in demand or both. While embedding...

Fatigue is lethargy and seen as unpleasant experience that occurs from physical labour or mental exertion. Fatigue can be either physical or mental. This paper examines the role of physical fatigue and mental fatigue in the relationship between physical isolation variables (social isolation and loneliness) and safety behaviour (safety compliance an...

The roles of all levels of management in influencing safety, particularly in a complex work environment, are crucial. Therefore, safety managers need to develop leadership competencies (i.e., effectiveness in terms of person-oriented behaviours) to reinforce their influencing capabilities through their safety responsibilities. However, practising l...

This paper provides an examination of direct and mediated relationships among occupational stressors (responsibilities towards family and living environment), mental health (anxiety and depression), fatigue (physical and mental fatigue), and safety behaviour (safety compliance and safety participation). In this cross-sectional study, data were coll...

Purpose This paper examines direct and mediation relations among physical isolation variables (social isolation and loneliness), mental health (anxiety and depression), and safety behaviour (safety compliance and safety participation). Method A cross-sectional study with data were collected by means of a questionnaire among oil and gas workers (fo...

Linear infrastructure such as roads, railways, bridges and tunnels enable critical functionality within and between metropolitan and regional cities and towns, facilitating the movement of goods and services, as part of vibrant, thriving economies. However, these asset types are typically challenged by costly asset management schedules and continua...

Climate change presents challenges for road infrastructure asset managers, with uncertainty about the impacts of increasingly frequent and intense disasters on asset functionality and life span. Budgeting for disaster response and recovery are improving, however there are calls for more evidence to support budget allocations. This exploratory study...

The importance of digital skills diffusion in fostering the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry has been highlighted for more than a decade. The extent to which this objective can be achieved depends on several factors. An augmented building information modelling (BIM) adoption stems from, but is not restricted to, government...

Purpose The large number of stakeholders in a project is a source of complexity because their inter-relationships can lead to complex interactions, an inadequate understanding of the other stakeholders and conflicting stakeholder interests. Although several studies have investigated the role and effects of engaging stakeholders in improving project...

Most accidents in the aviation, maritime, and construction industries are caused by human error, which can be traced back to impaired mental performance and attention failure. In 1596, Du Laurens, a French anatomist and medical scientist, said that the eyes are the windows of the mind. Eye tracking research dates back almost 150 years and it has be...

Research aim Sustainable procurement is increasingly on the agenda for purchasing and supply managers seeking to demonstrate corporate social responsibility in their supply chains. Driven by industry’s desire to modify behaviours that contribute to unsustainable practices, the SBEnrc’s Sustainable Procurement project is dedicated to examining key i...

Supplier selection process is challenged by compiling information from decision-makers who often have different roles within organisations, with competing priorities. This difference in decision-makers’ perspectives can introduce bias in the supplier selection process. Evaluation of suppliers is also challenged by decision-makers’ inability to prov...

Work in the oil and gas industry presents dangers and challenges because it is usually undertaken in remote locations and difficult geographical environments. Site and field remoteness could be significant for oil and gas workers, in terms of their mental health and fatigue levels. The purpose of this study was to identify the predictors of mental...

Resilient safety culture (RSC) is a socio-technical safety system that is made up of the employee’s capabilities as well the protocols and systems in an organization to deal with hazards. Oil and gas industry sites in Kuwait were chosen for this study. Both urban and rural sites were chosen to gauge the level of resilience in their respective safet...

Non-linear models for understanding complex socio-technical processes have not been fully adopted in the examination of hospitals’ functional performance when managing the effects of disruptive events. In the literature, researchers have focused on the various dimensions of hospital functional performance (HFP) using different methods. However, the...

Safety culture is a collection of the beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to risks within an organisation. On the other hand, a resilient safety culture (RSC) means a culture with readiness of the organisation to respond effectively under stress, bounce back from shocks and continuously learn from them. RSC helps organi...

Purpose Cities are facing challenges with their smart city agenda due to tighter budget constraints, varied interests of different stakeholders and increasing needs of technological innovation. Therefore, cities are partnering with private organisations to advance smart city projects. This research critically analyses the existing research publishe...

Our community has increasing expectations of government and private industry to support sustainable products and practices. There is also great interest shown by industry to reduce waste and emissions, and improve social outcomes. Driven by industry’s desire to modify behaviours that contribute to unsustainable practices, the SBEnrc’s Sustainable P...

The relatively high rate of injuries in construction is not surprising, as site work by its very nature ranks highly on fundamental risk factors. Working at heights often magnifies these risk factors. The literature reveals that falls from heights accounts for a large percentage of injuries in construction worldwide. Thailand is no exception, where...

The relatively high rate of injuries in construction is not surprising, as site work by its very nature ranks highly on fundamental risk factors. Working at heights often magnifies these risk factors. The literature reveals that falls from heights accounts for a large percentage of injuries in construction worldwide. Thailand is no exception, where...

Effective stakeholder management (ESM) is a critical success factor for projects. The increasing complexity in the relationships among stakeholders and their diverse characteristics, including power and interests makes the management of stakeholders increasingly challenging. To date, much of the literature has focused on the stakeholder analysis wi...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 9 on building resilient infrastructure highlights the urgent need for enabling evidence-based decision making for Infrastructure Asset Management supported by targeted platforms such as digital engineering and digital earth. In this paper the authors argue that an Asset Information Requirement matrix...

The Queensland Government’s annual Land Supply and Development Monitoring (LSDM) Report aims to understand and forecast changes in development activity and housing demand. The 2019 LSDM report provided a market factors section to discuss macro and micro-economic factors and their interrelations on short-medium term demand for housing. Since the rel...

For many countries, the oil and gas industry is regarded as one of the most lucrative and key sources of energy. Tasks in this sector can be classified under five main stages – exploration, oil extraction, refining, transporting and marketing of oil and its byproducts. Such tasks pose substantial risks to the environment, personnel and community at...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on building resilient infrastructure, highlights the urgent need for enabling evidence-based decision making for Infrastructure Asset Management (IAM) supported by targeted platforms such as Digital engineering and Digital Earth. This paper aims to lay the foundation for a novel digital infrastructure...

Resilience in organizational safety culture is what is needed in today’s dynamic work environment. This resilience first needs to be identified, modelled and then quantified to be able to identify where the weakness lies in the safety culture. In this paper, resilient safety culture is identified using three sub systems and associated factors as ga...

Safety culture is the collection of the beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to risks within an organisation. On the other hand, a resilient safety culture (RSC) means a culture with readiness of the organisation to respond effectively under stress, bounce back from shocks and continuously learn from them. RSC which help...

Resilient safety culture is defined and categorized into three groups: psychological, behavioral, and managerial capabilities, as described in the literature. These groups are further subdivided. RSC comprises static and dynamic components, and there are multiple complex interactions between these various components. This makes RSC challenging to u...

Hospitals are a critical element of the healthcare system and their continuous function is highly important to the wellbeing of communities. In accordance with the criticality of their functional performance during disruptive events, several modelling and analysis approaches have been developed to investigate the extent of various aspects of hospit...

Adverse events can affect the overall performance of hospitals by compromising its functional capacity and/or increase the demand for immediate medical services. This point draws the attention towards evaluating hospitals' functional performance (HFP) to identify the impacts of adverse events on their primary services. This paper seeks to develop a...

The critical role of hospital facilities in serving the societies gets highlighted when the society is dealing with disruptive event resulting in the surge of demand for primary healthcare services. Thus, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of hospital functional performance (HFP) is important for a timely response to such events. This study...

Complexity is a critical factor in managing a project, as it presents an additional difficulty in achieving the project’s objectives. As complexity makes a project more challenging to understand and keep under control, agile methodologies have been developed to enable increased flexibility and responsiveness to changing conditions. Therefore, it is...

In order to put a proactive approach in place with regards to the prevention of workplace injuries, there is a lean towards the main determinants of safety; e.g. leadership. As a result of their vital role in organisations, leaders are seen as prime players in the creation of safe work environments. However, leadership is a complex, multi-phased co...

Previous studies have made critical contributions to the theory and practice of Public-Private Partnership (PPPs) in the context of smart cities. A literature review plays an essential role in supporting scholars to better understand the topic, helping researchers identify the boundaries of the current body of knowledge and research trends, and sha...

Resilient safety culture (RSC) is a socio-technical safety system that 8 is made up of the employee's capabilities as well the protocols and systems in 9 an organization to deal with hazards. Oil and gas industry sites in Kuwait were 10 chosen for this study. Both urban and rural sites were chosen to gauge the level 11 of resilience in their respec...

Functional Resonance Analysis Method FRAM hospital functional performance Resilience

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the application of lean construction (LC) techniques in reducing accidents in construction projects. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative approach was used to collect the required data using a questionnaire survey and descriptive analysis was used to analyse the collected data. The LC techniques that...

The use of BIM technology in the operational phase of a building's lifecycle is taking hold as building owners look for new ways to take advantage of BIM and improve the effectiveness of their facility operations. Following the successes of the use of BIM in design and construction, there is growing interest in how the digital asset information hel...

This paper identifies the barriers that prevent construction projects from implementing LC techniques for safety improvement. To achieve this objective, a deductive approach is adopted using a questionnaire survey of 107 construction professionals. A total of 39 barriers were identified through an intensive literature review, and were grouped into...

Even with improvements in safety management practices, the number of fatal and non-fatal injuries in the construction industry is unacceptably high. These injuries result in substantial losses, not only to workers and employers but also to the society as a whole. Thus, the construction industry remains a high reliability industry. However, disappoi...

Selecting the right supplier is one of the most challenging tasks for organisations as it essentially reduces purchasing cost and improves corporate competitiveness. This study aims at developing a hybrid model in supplier selection for a non-homogeneous group decision-making process to select a supplier that best satisfies the purchaser. The analy...

Hospitals are one of the critical healthcare infrastructure and contribute to the societies by providing various healthcare services. Any interruption in hospital's functions can pose a significant impact on the local community. Improving resilience of hospitals' functional performance (HFP) is therefore very critical so that interruption in their...

Understanding stakeholder characteristics, including stakeholder power and interests, plays an essential role in managing stakeholders, especially in the context of complex projects. A project manager is expected to analyse and determine whose interests should be taken into account in a decision-making process and why. It appears that much of the l...

Resilient safety culture is characterized by continuous improvements to safety performance and the capacity to have foresight, recognizing and anticipating the changing shape of safety risks in complex sociotechnical systems. This study aims to conceptualize resilient safety culture in the construction environment by integrating resilience engineer...

Resilience in organizational safety culture is what is needed in today's dynamic work environment. This resilience first needs to be identified, modelled and then quantified to be able to identify where the weakness lies in the safety culture. In this paper, resilient safety culture is identified using three sub systems and associated factors as ga...

Australian housing supply has not been responded at a rate commensurate with its growing demand. Residential housing sector is facing this serious shortage issue by actively developing and effectively using new construction material, processes and practices for sustaining its competitive advantage over other construction sectors in the Australian c...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors driving Palestinian construction contractors to implement energy management strategies during the execution of construction projects. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted by administering a questionnaire that comprised 26 drivers for adopting energy management strateg...

Hospitals play a central role in providing social welfare as well as dealing with the impacts of disastrous events on society. In order to deliver healthcare services, hospitals’ functional performance depend on their physical structure and organisational performance as well as the availability of services which are being provided by the other regi...

Effective stakeholder management is a critical success factor for all types of projects. The increasing complexity in construction projects makes the management of project stakeholder management increasingly challenging due to their diverse characteristics, including power, interests and attitudes. It appears that much of the literature has focused...

Safety-critical organisations (SCOs), such as the military, fire service, aviation, emergency services, and construction, are characterised by being organisations with high potential for stress, accidents, and injuries. Environments where safety is highly critical (i.e., high exposure to risk and likelihood of an accident)-poses particular challeng...

Previous studies have made vital contributions to the theory and practice of engaging and managing project stakeholders. A literature review plays a critical role in supporting researchers to better understand the research topic, helping researchers identify the boundaries of the current body of knowledge and research trends, and shaping future res...

Due to its importance, safety leadership has witnessed much attention for many decades. Safety leadership plays a significant role in improving safety performance in different industries. For safety managers, the main role of leadership revolves around influencing the relevant people in order to build a safer work environment. Thus, most of previou...

Purpose Knowledge and application of energy management during the life cycle of construction projects are lacking. This study identified and investigated the key barriers to the implementation of energy management that face contracting firms during building construction focusing on construction plants as it is considered the major energy users on...

Although proper safety management in construction is of utmost importance; anecdotal evidence suggests that safety is not adequately considered in many developing countries. This paper considers the key variables affecting construction safety performance in Cambodia. Using an empirical questionnaire survey targeting local construction professionals...

Knowledge management (KM) is a method of acquiring strategic knowledge to drive sustainable business benefits. However, empirical evidence regarding the direct and indirect relationships among essential knowledge management enablers (KMEs) is limited in the literature. This study focused on large construction organisations operating in Hong Kong an...

This paper aims at developing a supplier selection model in the construction field. The proposed model considers a non-homogeneous decision-making group in the supplier selection process. It applies the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) in determining the influence weightings of the non-homogeneous group. The importance weighting of criteria, whic...

The effectiveness of leadership behaviours varies from one person to another. It depends on more than simply performing the leadership behaviours. In the safety context, as in any other context, leaders need to know when and how behaviours are executed beside their knowledge of what leadership behaviour is being performed. Leadership competencies h...

This research aims to develop a cloud-based safety information and communication system for improving safety performance of infrastructure projects. To achieve this aim, firstly, current traditional paper-based construction safety management system and practice are described, together with a review of the potential application of cloud-based inform...

Purpose The Gaza Strip in Palestine is suffering from a shortage of water and energy. To manage the current situation and address future issues, practical approaches need to be adopted to enhance water and energy efficiency. This study sought to elicit professionals’ perceptions of the drivers affecting water and related energy consumption in resi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide the empirical evidence supporting the existence of a multi-level hierarchical TQM model showing the structural inter-relationships among a total of 16 TQM variables (i.e. drivers, enablers and outcomes). Design/methodology/approach The set of identified TQM variables is the product of an in-depth rev...

Knowledge management is a method of acquiring a strategic asset that drives sustainable business benefits. This paper adopts a modelling approach to explore the relationships among the various knowledge management enablers identified in the seminal literature. Using a combination of a focus group with industry practitioners in Hong Kong, and the in...

Selecting the right supplier is one of the most challenging tasks for organisations as it essentially reduces purchasing cost and improves corporate competitiveness. This study aims at developing a hybrid model in supplier selection for a non-homogeneous group decision-making process to select a supplier that best satisfies the purchaser. The analy...

Due to its importance, safety leadership has witnessed much attention for many decades. Safety leadership plays a significant role in improving safety performance in different industries. For safety managers, the main role of leadership revolves around influencing the relevant people in order to build a safer work environment. Thus, most of previou...

Currently, there is a severe shortage of social housing in Australia. In order to address this pressing problem, there is an urgent need for huge investment into this sector, which would require the participation of private institutional investors. This paper analyses this issue from a new perspective or a new lens. It applies the " missing market...

Benefits to the construction industry through the use of off-site manufactured (OSM) buildings are well documented. However, and like most innovations, the uptake of OSM has been rather slow. While relevant potential improvements and barriers are widely discussed in the literature, there is a gap in understanding how key project stakeholders (i.e....

Many of the shortcomings associated with dated design and construction methods as well as project fast-tracking can be addressed by exploring the concept of concurrency facilitated by Building Information Modelling (BIM). From a BIM perspective, concurrency facilitates the involvement of stakeholders from very early on during the lifecycle of a pro...

A high quality transportation system is necessary in a modern economy, and a road network is a common and significant, component of the system. Road systems have two major objectives: to enable the movement of passenger vehicles and the movement of freight vehicles at reasonable speeds. An important part of the transportation system and an expensiv...

The objective of this study is to determine potential barriers faced by the implementation of BIM in the Palestinian construction industry. The data collection was obtained using a questionnaire-based survey of 270 professionals in the construction industry. The results obtained from the factor analysis clustered the BIM barriers in four components...

Recent innovation diffusion in organisations literature suggests that innovation diffusion dimensions and characteristics are not independent of each other, rather organisational internal environment interacts with both an organisational external environment and an innovation's characteristics. The purpose of this paper is to examine the validity o...

Offsite manufacturing of buildings (OSM) is defined as a construction technique, whereby standardised modules are manufactured in a factory, transported to, and assembled on the site. OSM is an alternative to the traditional method of construction. Much has been written on the barriers and drivers of OSM in Australia and other developed countries....

Since 2000, Australia has seen a large growth in the mineral, resource and infrastructure sectors, with operations expanding to rural and remote locations, leading to an increase in demand for personnel to work fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) or drive-in, drive out (DIDO) rosters. Such models of work have become increasingly popular as it takes into account...