EditorialAdvanced Management in Civil Engineering Projects

Xianbo Zhao ,1 Yingbin Feng ,2 Dujuan Yang,3 and Dong Zhao4

1Central Queensland University, Sydney, NSW, Australia2Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia3Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands4Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

Correspondence should be addressed to Xianbo Zhao; b.zhao@cqu.edu.au

Received 14 October 2018; Accepted 14 October 2018; Published 24 December 2018

Copyright © 2018 Xianbo Zhao et al. $is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

$is special issue aims to present the research studies re-garding management in civil engineering projects, whichprovide theoretical and/or practical implications. Overeighty manuscripts were submitted, and 29 were acceptedfor publication after a thorough and rigorous peer reviewprocess. $ese papers cover a variety of topics in manage-ment of civil engineering projects, including risk and safetymanagement, public-private partnership (PPP), humanfactors, information technology applications, constructionorganizational issues, planning and scheduling, and sus-tainability and resilience of civil infrastructures. We believethat the original papers in this special issue cover the hottopics in construction management research and will bringreaders the latest advances in the field.

$e paper by T. Ganbat et al. presents a bibliometricreview of risk management and building informationmodeling (BIM) for international construction.$e paper byT. Chang et al. models the paths of political risks in theinternational construction market and develops relevantstrategies to mitigate these risks.

$e paper by S. Xu et al. explores the impact examiningwhether attitudinal ambivalence is a mediating factor in therelationship between safety attitude and safety behavior. $epaper by Y. Li et al. identifies the critical success factors(CSFs) for safety management of high-rise building con-struction projects and explores the interactions among suchCSFs. $e paper by T. Zhao et al. analyzes the status quo ofsafety management and identifies the “last mile” problem,i.e., the failure of implementation of the extensive legal andregulatory systems on the construction site.

$e paper by Y. Liu et al. adopts case studies to identifythe risk factors affecting PPP waste-to-energy incinerationprojects in China. $e paper by Y. Liang et al. constructs keysuccess indicators for PPP projects in Hong Kong.$e paperby J. Li et al. uses the risk management approach to analyzethe traffic allocation mode of PPP highway projects.

$e paper by G. Ye et al. develops an improved HumanFactors Analysis and Classification System (I-HFACS) in theconstruction industry and designs an analytical I-HFACSmechanism to interpret how activities and decisions madeby upper management lead to operator errors and sub-sequent accidents. $e paper by P.-C. Liao et al. proposes amodel for identifying, analyzing, and quantifying themechanisms for the influence of an improper workplaceenvironment on human errors in elevator installation.

$e paper by Z. Xu et al. extends the interoperability of aconstruction quality database in the evaluation process byemploying the industry foundation classes (IFCs) datamodel.$e paper by T.-K.Wang et al. quantitatively assessesthe efficiency of augmented reality (AR) from the cognitiveperspective in the context of construction education andcompares learners’ visual behaviors in text-graph- (TG-)based, AR-based, and physical model- (PM-) based learningenvironments.

$e paper by Y.-H. Lin et al. explores the moderatingeffect of guanxi on the dynamic capacity and competitiveadvantage of international contractors. $e paper by G. Wuet al. takes into consideration the effects of the contractor’sconflict behaviors on the project benefit and develops adecision model between the owner and contractor’s conflict

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behaviors in construction projects using the principal-agenttheory and game theory. $e paper by P. Yan et al. in-vestigates the potential individual, group, and organizationalfactors that influence group bidding decision-making forconstruction projects.

$e paper by J. Dong et al. develops a network planningmethod for the capacitated metro-based underground lo-gistics system (ULS) and validates this method using twolines of Nanjing Metro. $e paper by M. Kannimuthu et al.determines the most challenging issues being faced inhandling the multiproject environment, enumerates thepractices adopted in the industry, and identifies the prac-titioners’ perceptions on the multiproject schedulingaspects.

$e paper by Y. Liu et al. performs a thorough literaturereview to follow the development trends, interviews withprofessionals from the academia and industry, and a criticalanalysis of technical requirements for integrating BIM toolsand infrastructure sustainability rating systems in the designprocess and develops a conceptual framework for integratingsustainability rating systems by introducing BIM with asustainability metric plug-in. $e paper by L. Wang et al.assesses the sustainability and resilience of the urban in-frastructure by adopting the grade point average (GPA) as aunified assessment approach.

Conflicts of Interest

$e editors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all the authors who contributed tothis special issue. $is publication would not be possiblewithout the participation of our expert reviewers, whoprovided constructive feedback and criticism throughout thereview process.

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