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Alashwal, A M and Fong, P S (2015) Empirical Study to Determine Fragmentation of Construction Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

Albert, A, Hallowell, M R, Lingard, H and Kleiner, B M (2015) Multiple Baseline Testing: Experimental Method for Drawing Causal Inferences in Construction Engineering and Management Research. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

Ballesteros-Pérez, P, Skitmore, M, Das, R and del Campo-Hitschfeld, M L (2015) Quick Abnormal-Bid-Detection Method for Construction Contract Auctions. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

Bowen, P, Govender, R, Edwards, P, Cattell, K and Street, A (2015) Factors Determining South African Construction Workers’ Prejudice towards and Discrimination against HIV+ Persons. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

El-Gafy, M and Abdelhamid, T (2015) Impact of I/D Contracts Used for Expediting Michigan’s Road Construction. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

Feng, Y (2015) Mathematical Models for Determining the Minimum Level of Voluntary Safety Investments for Building Projects. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: Accident; Construction; Construction safety; Cost; Investment; Optimization; Labor and personnel issues;
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0733-9364
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0000987
  • Abstract:
    This study aims to investigate the minimum voluntary safety investment through optimization of total controllable safety costs for building projects. A correlational research study was designed to achieve the research aim. Data were collected using multiple techniques from 47 completed building projects in Singapore. The curves for describing the relationships between voluntary safety investment, total accident costs, accident frequency rate, and total controllable safety costs were developed using regression techniques. The optimization of voluntary safety investment was conducted using the extreme-value theorem with the objective of finding the minimum level of total controllable safety costs. The results show that the financially minimum voluntary safety investment varies with different levels of safety culture and project hazard. The models developed in this study can be used to estimate the minimum voluntary safety investment for building projects at different safety culture and project hazard levels. The findings of this study may provide the basis for financial decision making in managing construction safety for building contractors.

Goh, Y M and Wang, Q (2015) Investigating the Adequacy of Horizontal Lifeline System Design through Case Studies from Singapore. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

Lee, S, Tae, S, Jee, N and Shin, S (2015) LDA-Based Model for Measuring Impact of Change Orders in Apartment Projects and Its Application for Prerisk Assessment and Postevaluation. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

Mahalingam, A, Yadav, A K and Varaprasad, J (2015) Investigating the Role of Lean Practices in Enabling BIM Adoption: Evidence from Two Indian Cases. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).

Tsai, J and Chi, C S F (2015) Learning for Win-Win Collaboration. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 141(07).