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Ibrahim Motawa
Other affiliations: University of the West of England, Loughborough University, Heriot-Watt University
Bio: Ibrahim Motawa is an academic researcher from Mansoura University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Building information modeling & Knowledge-based systems. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 57 publications receiving 993 citations. Previous affiliations of Ibrahim Motawa include University of the West of England & Loughborough University.
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TL;DR: This research aims to develop an integrated system to capture information and knowledge of building maintenance operations when/after maintenance is carried out to understand how a building is deteriorating and to support preventive/corrective maintenance decisions.
317 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated change management system is developed to represent the key decisions required to implement changes and to simulate the iterative cycles of concurrent design and construction resulting from unanticipated changes and their subsequent impacts.
168 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual BIM-based model that can improve the post-occupancy evaluation process and meet the industry requirements for sustainable buildings is introduced, which can be used to monitor the behaviour of buildings and make critical decisions to ensure that the energy criteria of the design are really met in practice.
151 citations
TL;DR: A fuzzy system is proposed in this paper that simulates the relationships between change causes and effects, and is intended to facilitate proactive change management on projects.
55 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a change management toolkit, which was developed to provide a standard framework and tool support for change management in construction projects, in order to minimize the negative impact of necessary changes and to avoid unnecessary ones.
Abstract: Changes in construction projects often cause cost and time overruns. Because of the nature of design and construction of buildings, construction professionals often have to make decisions based on assumptions and previous experience. Changes at a later stage are sometimes inevitable. The aim of project change management is not to seek the elimination of all project changes, but to minimize the negative impact of necessary changes and to avoid unnecessary ones. At present, in practice, there is a lack of industrial standards for project change management procedures and methods. This often results in changes being poorly managed, on an ad hoc basis, by project teams during individual projects. This paper presents a change management toolkit, which was developed to provide a standard framework and tool support for change management in construction projects.
50 citations
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: In this article, Nonaka and Takeuchi argue that Japanese firms are successful precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies, and they reveal how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge.
Abstract: How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.
7,448 citations
TL;DR: Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook, by David Silverman, Los Angeles, Sage, 2010, 456 pp., AU$65.00, ISBN 978-1-84860-033-1, ISBN 1-94960-034-8 as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook, by David Silverman, Los Angeles, Sage, 2010, 456 pp., AU$65.00, ISBN 978-1-84860-033-1, ISBN 978-1-94960-034-8. Available in Australia and New Zeal...
2,295 citations
TL;DR: Results show scarce BIM implementation in existing buildings yet, due to challenges of (1) high modeling/conversion effort from captured building data into semantic BIM objects, (2) updating of information in BIM and (3) handling of uncertain data, objects and relations in B IM occurring inexisting buildings.
1,499 citations