Human Resource Allocation for Remote Construction Projects

Lin, Kuo-Liang

doi:10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000032

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“…Project planning and design ranked first with 29 papers involved. Majority of these papers employed Delphi as a forecasting instrument to identify and evaluate certain risks for managing a specific type of projects, such as financial risks (Thomas et al 2006;Lyer and Sagheer 2010;Xu et al, 2010a;2010b;Ke et al 2010;2011), technical risks (Seo and Choi 2008), execution risks (Aritua et al 2011;Del Caño and de la Cruz 2002;De la Cruz et al 2006), as well as contractual and cost risks (Tummala and Burchett 1999;Adams 2006;. Aside from these studies on risk management, the Delphi method could be also used to investigate factors regarding engineering design and pre-project planning.…”

Section: Topic Coverage Of the Delphi Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…. Four identified Delphi papers use Spearman's rank correlation coefficient to test the inter-group comparison (Arditi et al 1999;Hackett and Hicks 2007;Ke et al 2010;2011). If the computed Spearman's rank correlation coefficient exceeds the critical value at a significance level (of say 0.05), it can be construed that there is consistence between the different respondent groups (Ke et al 2011).…”

Section: Inter-group Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some researchers affirmed this merit of AHP and used this technique to quantify Delphi survey results. In this study, twelve papers that used a combination of Delphi and AHP were identified (Shields et al 1990;Brown et al 2001;Khasnabis et al 2002;Shapira and Goldenberg 2005;Bertolini et al 2006;Wu et al 2007;Hsu et al 2008;Hyun et al 2008;Lu 2010;Lin 2011;Vidal et al 2011;Khazaeni et al 2012). Topics of these identified papers refer to various CEM areas, such as organizational issues, contracting, project planning and design, labour and personnel issues, and information technologies (ASCE 2013).…”

Section: Combination With Ahpmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Views of the Delphi panelists reach a consensus when the computed Chi-square value is larger than the critical Chi-square value (Ke et al 2010;2011; Hon et al 2012).…”

Section: Consensus Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some researchers identified the selection criteria for project procurement methods by using the Delphi method (Chan et al 2001;Lee and Kim 2001). Delphi was also commonly employed to resolve procurement-related evaluations in different types of projects, such as Design-Build projects and PublicPrivate Partnership projects (Brown et al 2001;Yeung et al 2007;2009a;2009b;Kumaraswamy and Anvuur 2008;Xia et al 2009;2011;Xia and Chan 2010;2012b).…”

Section: Topic Coverage Of the Delphi Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Application of Delphi Method in Construction Engineering and Management Research: A Quantitative Perspective

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Abstract. The Delphi method has been used as a main research method by a growing number of researchers in the Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) field in the past two decades. Although a number of studies are available on the use of Delphi, few researchers fully examine the potential of the Delphi method in the combined use of statistical techniques, which is an inevitable trend for future Delphi research. This paper aims to review the combined use of Delphi and other quantitative methods in the CEM field based on a structured literature review of 88 relevant papers. All of the 88 papers are systematically identified from ten well-known peer-reviewed CEM journals published in the period of 1990-2012. Topic coverage, application requirements, and statistical techniques in the 88 Delphi papers are reviewed. The mix use of the Delphi method with three advanced modelling methods, such as Fuzzy Sets, Analytical Hierarchy Process, and Analytical Network Process is also examined. These review results provide practical references for researchers having interests in applying Delphi method in CEM research.Keywords: Delphi method; Construction engineering and management research; Quantitative perspective; Review IntroductionThe Delphi method is a structured communication and consensus building approach amongst a group of experts on a complex problem (Chan et al. 2001). This method refers to an iterative process where consensus is often reached through rounds of feedbacks of experts' opinion and judgment on a particular subject (Hallowell and Gambatese 2010b). Although sometimes the reliability of the findings derived from a Delphi study may raise some controversy because of the inappropriate design and execution of the Delphi study, such as shortcomings of the survey instrument, poor choice of experts, weak bias control, unreliable analyses, and limited feedback during the study (Gupta and Clarke 1996;Keeney et al. 2001), the Delphi method remains a particularly useful alternative for the situation when objective data are unattainable, there is a lack of empirical evidence, or experimental research is unrealistic or unethical (Hallowell and Gambatese 2010b).As an established profession in the construction industry, CEM is a practice-driven field in nature. Many research questions in this field need to address the impacts of individuals, organizations and the society on construction management activities, particularly those on planning, forecasting and decision making activities (Fellows and Liu 2009). The key to resolve these problems should draw upon the collective knowledge and experience of selected experts in a given area. By contrast to other methods such as interviews, Delphi provides a more reliable and efficient alternative for solving these problems with high uncertainty (Chan et al. 2001). Therefore, a growing number of researchers have adopted Delphi method in CEM research since the early 1990s (Hallowell and Gambatese 2010b).Although many researchers regard Delphi as a qualitative method (Hasson et ...

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Section: Topic Coverage Of the Delphi Papersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Inter-group Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Combination With Ahpmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Views of the Delphi panelists reach a consensus when the computed Chi-square value is larger than the critical Chi-square value (Ke et al 2010;2011; Hon et al 2012).…”

Section: Consensus Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%