Wajiha ShahzadMassey University · School of Built Environment
Wajiha Shahzad
PhD (Construction)
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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
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January 2016 - November 2016
Education
January 2012 - December 2015
January 2010 - December 2010
February 1999 - June 2003
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Publications (34)
Much research has been carried out in the field of business management to understand why some organizations perform better than others, while others fail. Strategic management field has a strong focus on exploring how firms operate and the performance differentials among them. In strategic management, predominantly, three theories are applied to as...
Offsite construction (OSC) has been put forward as a solution to many prevailing challenges facing the construction industry, including but not limited to low productivity, housing shortage, lack of innovation, and poor-quality outputs. The uptake of OSC is relatively slow in the New Zealand construction industry. With only 10% of all the new build...
The increase of population in large cities of New Zealand (NZ), propelled by the massive number of immigrants after COVID, has caused a shortage in housing supply. Prefabrication has been advocated as a potential solution to this problem. Its uptake in NZ is relatively low despite its benefits. So, building capacity and more capability are essentia...
In light of climate change, the construction industry plays a crucial part in alleviating carbon emissions and other environmental impacts. The focus on improving the public procurement process poses an important opportunity for the successful implementation of carbon reduction strategies in construction projects. There is a growing body of literat...
Public private partnerships (PPPs) have gained widespread adoption as an innovative way of procuring public infrastructure projects over the last two decades. Risk identification, assessment, and allocation have received considerable attention from researchers due to the risk heavy nature of PPP projects. Adoption of PPPs has triggered a sudden inc...
Offsite construction (OSC) has been put forward as a solution to many prevailing challenges facing the construction industry, including but not limited to low productivity, housing shortage, lack of innovation, and poor-quality outputs. The uptake of OSC is relatively slow in the New Zealand construction industry. With only 10% of all the new build...
The increase of population in large cities of New Zealand (NZ), propelled by the massive number of immigrants and many New Zealanders returning to the country after COVID-19, has caused a shortage in housing supply. Prefabrication has been advocated as a potential solution for this problem. Although it has many benefits, its uptake in NZ is relativ...
Blockchain technology applicability in New Zealand's prefabricated construction industry A B S T R A C T Different industries are modernising their systems and introducing innovations to their management practices. However, the construction industry is recognised for its lack of technological systems on which the success of this sector is deemed to...
New Zealand’s rising demand for new and affordable homes is driving innovative and effective methods for project delivery. Prefabrication or off-site construction is considered an innovative approach to project delivery that eliminates the limitations of traditional construction methods. However, the prefabrication industry struggles with several c...
Modular construction is proposed as a feasible solution for school classrooms construction at
a lower cost and shorter period by the Ministry of Education (MOE), New Zealand. However,
the traditional construction remains a plausible alternative. This paper aims to review the
feasibility of using modular prefabricated classrooms in terms of cost and...
The land development process in New Zealand is criticised for causing delays in the delivery of adequate housing. These delays upset the demand and supply equilibrium, leading to housing shortages, expensive builds and rentals. This study investigates the challenges in land development, to ascertain the factors that are limiting its efficiency as a...
Different industries are modernising their systems and introducing innovations to their management practices. However, the construction industry is recognised for its lack of technological systems on which the success of this sector is deemed to be heavily dependent. Previous studies have focused on enhancing the off-site construction supply chain....
Purpose
Automation facilitates production activities within offsite construction (OSC) projects through computer-controlled and mechanised systems that can be programmed to deliver various products in a self-regulating sequence. Despite known benefits of automation to offsite production, the level of automation adoption in New Zealand is low. This...
The attention onprefabricated modules and components is resurging in the New Zealand residential construction industry. This isdriven by its relative benefitsand technological advancements.However inspite of thisattention, there has not been commensurate understanding of its manufacturing supply chainand the enhancement of theirperformance. Similar...
Over time, due to increased competition in construction industry worldwide, researchers have tried to understand the determinants of construction firms performance. Literature suggests that contingency-based approach is increasingly studied to explain performance related issues for construction firms. An in-depth understanding of the construction i...
The term prefabrication is becoming a trending topic in the New Zealand housing construction industry due to its benefits. However, the adoption rate of prefabrication is relatively low in New Zealand due to many challenges, including a lack of integration in the supply chain. Even though prefabrication has been studied in the areas of the supply c...
Various industries are taking advantage of innovations in their supply chain management practices. Construction
industry, however, is considered as a slow adopter of technologies and innovative practices due to poor
information integration which leads to lack of collaborative interactions and consequently reluctance to utilising
technologies. Numer...
Funding modern day projects in the face of declining public reserve pools has influenced the scale of infrastructure provision. Public private partnership (PPP) emerged as an effective solution for delivering infrastructure in many countries. However, not all projects have been reported successful. Literature suggests that an understanding of criti...
It is believed that prefabrication will be the success factor for construction productivity growth (Construction 2011; Kamali & Hewage 2016; PrefabNZ 2014; Shahzad, Mbachu & Domingo 2015). However, in New Zealand, it has a lower uptake due to many challenges, including a lack of integrated supply chain specifically in prefabricated housing construc...
Supply chain management (SCM) techniques are being applied to different industry sectors e.g. food production, pharmaceutical trades, and construction. Despite a handful of researches conducted on SCM in the construction industry, research with a focus on the prefabrication supply chain is limited, particularly where the major obstacles inhibiting...
The construction industry plays a significant role in the economic activities of a country. An in-depth understanding of the construction industry is therefore essential, in particular, how businesses within the industry perform and how they combine to shape the growth and development of the national economy. The market in which construction busine...
Funding modern day projects in the face of declining public reserve pools has influenced the scale of infrastructure provision. Public private partnership (PPP) emerged as an effective solution for delivering infrastructure in many countries. However, not all projects have been reported successful. Literature suggests that an understanding of criti...
The study reported in this paper is part of a project that is aimed at increasing the
interest of female high school students in construction-related careers in New
Zealand. In this paper, the factors influencing career choice and causing barriers to
young females pursuing a career in the construction industry were examined. Based
on Maslow’s hiera...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key productivity constraints faced by New Zealand (NZ) road pavement maintenance and rehabilitation contractors (RPMRCs) and the associated mitigation measures.
Design/methodology/approach
Interview-based exploratory research strategy was used to survey senior managers and directors of medi...
New Zealand’s timber availability is projected to increase to 35m3 by early 2020s. This will require marketing additional 7m3 of timber logs. According to New Zealand Forest Owners Association, it is observed that more than 53% of country’s timber logs are exported to different countries. Export of prefab timber panels in place of timber logs, can...
Recent analysis reveal that New Zealand forestry can enormously contribute to country’s
economy through additional wood processing. According to Forest Owners Association
(FOA) 53% of timber grown in New Zealand is exported to different countries in form of
raw timber logs. This timber is then used by the importing countries for various purposes
in...
A number of theoretical methodologies for the selection of best adaptive reuse alternatives have been reported from empirical evidence. However, these frameworks have their distinct weaknesses when applied in the selection process for optimal adaptive reuse alternative. This paper therefore focuses on developing and testing an integrated multiple-c...
There is a growing market demand for precast concrete elements in the New Zealand construction market. However, within so many improvements in the management, production technology, transportation, and quality assurance systems, the precast construction system remains one of the least developed systems with the minimum productivity and profit margi...
New Zealand’s timber availability is projected to increase to 35m3 by early 2020s. This will require marketing additional 7m3 of timber logs. According to New Zealand Forest Owners Association, it is observed that more than 53% of country’s timber logs are exported to different countries. Export of prefab timber panels in place of timber logs, can...
Purpose
The study aimed to answer the ‘what’ and ‘how’ questions about the key role players’ influence on the overall productivity outcomes in the lifecycle of residential buildings procured through the traditional route.
Design/methodology/approach
A mix of exploratory and descriptive research methods was used to obtain feedback from 179 role p...
Several studies have documented benefits of prefabrication system (prefab) compared to the traditional building system (TBS). However, the documented benefits have been anecdotal or fragmented with reports of isolated case study projects. Few studies have looked at the objectively quantified benefits from statistical significance point of view and...
Prefabrication of building components could be leveraged to improve the reported low productivity trend in the New Zealand (NZ) construction industry. Despite the numerous known benefits of prefabrication, the uptake of the technology in the industry has been discouragingly low. This paper aims to identify the key constraints to the industry-wide u...
Projects
Projects (2)
This research is aimed at investigating the challenges that are hindering the productivity and performance of road pavement maintenance and rehabilitation contractors in New Zealand and also provides practical and innovative ways of tackling the existing constraints and challenges.
The specific objectives of the study are as follows.
1) To identify and prioritise the factors constraining contractors’ productivity and performance in the road pavement maintenance and rehabilitation process (RPMR).
2) To explore measures for mitigating the identified constraints with a focus on improving efficiency and productivity in the RPMR project delivery.
To investigate the use of industrialised building systems amongst stakeholders in Malaysian construction industry
