Aref Charehzehi

Conflicts and claims are prevalent features in construction projects and are getting more serious due to the increased size and complexity of the projects nowadays. Innovative, effective and strategic dispute resolution methods should be taken to overcome these issues. The existing practice and agenda of dispute resolution concentrates on cure rather than prevention. Thus, providing new strategies and technologies as management tools is critical to minimize the dispute occurrence. Building information modeling (BIM) is one of the effective techniques that help building in a virtual and collaborative working environment prior to physical construction. This paper aims to initiative a review on the feasible use of BIM for construction conflict management. A conceptual model is developed to analyze and incorporate the philosophy of conflict management into relation to BIM. The model serves as a preliminary reference for resolving the differences or disagreements. It requires further development and incorporates with a proper contract administration for actual implementation in the future

Recently, the issue of safety performance has been focused at construction projects in both developed and developing countries. As a matter of fact, the construction industry contributes in a significant proportion of economic and social aspects. However, it is also considered to be the most hazardous industry in terms of personal safety and health.Many factors are involved in the accident occurrence at construction site. Some important elements that create a significant portion of accidents include: safety management error, poor training programs, human element, act of god, outdated procedure and no clear monitoring policy. Although some of these items are inevitable, but the occurrence of the largest part can be prevented.Therefore, for improving the safetyin a project each of these items should be analysed and a practical approach introduced. In general, near miss, incident and accident are three dependent levels that mainly lead to injury. Risk and hazard are allocated in first ...

Dispute is recognized as critical cause of deficiency and low performance in construction projects. Plenty of studies have been done in construction dispute management recently; however, there are no studies on construction dispute elimination. This study aims to propose a building information modeling (BIM) approach to control conflict causes before the occurrence of dispute. BIM is one of the latest platforms that promote a high level of collaboration, information sharing, and coordination where its implementation ranges from project initialization to completion stage. The circumstances associating with BIM technology can be utilized to explore the possibilities in conflict and dispute resolution system. Questionnaire surveys are used to collect the primary data. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and multi attribute utility technique (MAUT) are adopted to develop an algorithm and a decision-making framework to manage and resolve the potential conflict causes, particularly for the...