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A critical review of the current research mainstreams and the influencing factors of green total factor productivity

Zhang, Jingxiao; Lu, Guanyang; Skitmore, Martin; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo (Springer-Verlag, 2021-07)

[EN] The current world economy needs to undergo a green transformation. Green total factor productivity provides the basis for judging whether a country or region can attain long-term sustainable development. However, there ...
Analysis of the distribution of the number of bidders in construction contract auctions

Ballesteros Pérez, Pablo; González-Cruz, María Carmen; Fuentes Bargues, José Luis; Skitmore, M. (Taylor & Francis, 2015-09-02)

The number of bidders, N, involved in a construction procurement auction is known to have an important effect on the value of the lowest bid and the mark-up applied by bidders. In practice, for example, it is important for ...
Application of Spectrometry for Determining the Solar Radiation of Deciduous Trees Shade: A Passive Energy Conservation Approach for Mediterranean Climates

Del Campo-Hitschfeld, María Luisa; Arenas, Nicolás; Rivera, Marco; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo (MDPI AG, 2023-04-23)

[EN] Deciduous trees are well known for controlling solar gains in buildings, contributing to energy savings in a sector that consumes 35% of global energy. However, there is still a lack of information about the real ...
Climate and construction delays: case study in Chile

Ballesteros Pérez, Pablo; del Campo-Hitschfeld, Maria Luisa; Gonzalez-Naranjo, Manuel Alejandro; González-Cruz, María Carmen (Emerald, 2015)

Purpose - Construction projects usually suffer delays, and the causes of these delays and its cost overruns have been widely discussed, the weather being one of the most recurrent. The purpose of this paper is to analyze ...
Collusion detection in public procurement auctions with machine learning algorithms

García-Rodríguez, Manuel J.; Rodríguez-Montequín, Vicente; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Love, Peter E. D.; Signor, Regis (Elsevier, 2022-01)

[EN] Collusion is an illegal practice by which some competing companies secretly agree on the prices (bids) they will submit to a future auction. Worldwide, collusion is a pervasive phenomenon in public sector procurement. ...
Comparison of the Stability and Accuracy of Deterministic Project Cost Prediction Methods in Earned Value Management

Barrientos-Orellana, Alexis; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Mora-Meliá, Daniel; Cerezo-Narváez, Alberto; Gutiérrez-Bahamondes, Jimmy H. (MDPI AG, 2023-05-02)

[EN] Completing a project on time and on budget are essential factors for the success of any project. One technique that allows predicting the final cost of a project is earned value management (EVM). In this technique, ...
Continuous Earned Value Management with Singularity Functions for Comprehensive Project Performance Tracking and Forecasting

Ngo, Kiet A.; Lucko, Gunnar; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo (Elsevier, 2022-09-21)

[EN] Earned value management (EVM) is a classical project monitoring technique that is widely used in construction projects. Due to its simplicity, this technique suffers from limitations due to its discrete nature ¿ ...
Critical Duration Index: Anticipating Project Delays From Deterministic Schedule Information

González-Cruz, María-Carmen; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Lucko, Gunnar; Zhang, Jing-Xiao (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2022-11-01)

[EN] Classical scheduling techniques are well-known to underestimate the average project duration, yet they remain widely used in practice due to their simplicity. In this paper, the new Critical Duration Index (CDI) is ...
Current and Future Trends of Resource Misallocation in the Construction Industry: A Bibliometric Review with Grounded Theory

Zhang, Jingxiao; Dong, Fangyu; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Li, Hui; Skitmore, Martin (MDPI AG, 2022-10)

[EN] Resource misallocation (RM) refers to the existence of marginal output inequalities between different industries or companies in an economy. Prior studies of RM have mostly focused on effect analysis, construction ...
Data-Driven Platform Framework for Digital Whole-Process Expressway Construction Management

Chen, Shu-Yang; Zhang, Jing-Xiao; Ni, Qi-Chang; Skitmore, Martin; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Ke, Yong-Jian; Zuo, Jian; Sun, Hao-Jie (Frontiers Media SA, 2022-06-02)

[EN] To increase the speed and efficiency of expressways construction, information management is being gradually introduced into the construction process. However, progress is limited due to the complexity of expressway ...
Detecting Abnormal and Collusive Bids in Capped Tendering

Ballesteros Pérez, Pablo; González-Cruz, María Carmen; Cañavate Grimal, Antonio; Pellicer, Eugenio (Elsevier, 2013-05)

Recent developments in the area of Bid Tender Forecasting have enabled bidders to implement new types of easy-to-use tools for increasing their chances of winning contracts. Although these new tools (such as iso-Score Curve ...
Do Projects really end late? On the shortcomings of the Classical Scheduling Techniques

Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Larsen, Graeme D.; González-Cruz, María-Carmen (Omnia Publisher SL, 2018)

[EN] Many engineering projects fail to meet their planned completion dates in real practice. This is a recurrent topic in the project management literature, with poor planning and controlling practices frequently cited ...
Duration and Cost Variability of Construction Activities: An Empirical Study

Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Sanz-Ablanedo, E.; Soetanto, R.; González-Cruz, María-Carmen; Larsen, G.D.; Cerezo-Narváez, A. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2020-01-01)

[EN] The unique nature of construction projects can mean that construction activities often suffer from duration and cost variability. Because this variability is unplanned, it can present a problem when attempting to ...
Dynamic Quality Monitoring System to Assess the Quality of Asphalt Concrete Pavement

Ma, Ziyuan; Zhang, Jingxiao; Philbin, Simon P.; Li, Hui; Yang, Jie; Feng, Yunlong; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Skitmore, Martin (MDPI AG, 2021-12)

[EN] With the rapid development of new technologies, such as big data, the Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent sensing, the traditional asphalt pavement construction quality evaluation method has been unable to meet ...
Earned Schedule min-max: Two new EVM metrics for monitoring and controlling projects

Ballesteros Pérez, Pablo; Sanz-Ablanedo, E.; Mora-Melià, Daniel; González-Cruz, María-Carmen; Fuentes Bargues, José Luis; Pellicer, Eugenio (Elsevier, 2019-07)

[EN] Earned Value Management (EVM) is a well-known project management technique for monitoring project pro-gress. Over the last 15 years, many promising EVM metrics have been proposed to get, among other improve-ments, ...
Energy, emissions and economic impact of the new nZEB regulatory framework on residential buildings renovation: Case study in southern Spain

Cerezo-Narváez, Alberto; Piñero-Vilela, José-María; Rodríguez-Jara, Enrique-Ángel; Otero-Mateo, Manuel; Pastor-Fernández, Andrés; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo (Elsevier, 2021-10)

[EN] Spanish residential buildings built in the decade of the housing bubble (2000-2009) had to comply with the Basic Buildings Standard on thermal conditions in buildings. At the end of this period, the Basic Energy Savings ...
Environmental life cycle impact assessment of transportation infrastructure: A multi-case study in international perspective

Zhang, Jingxiao; Peng, Xiaqing; Ouyang, You; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Ke, Yong-Jian; Lu, Qingchang; Li, Hui; Skitmore, Martin (Taylor & Francis, 2021-11-03)

[EN] Although transportation infrastructure promotes the continuous development of the world economy, it is also responsible for serious pollution problems. These are studied in the analysis of five transportation ...
Environmental regulation and green productivity of the construction industry in China

Zhang, Jingxiao; Pu, Si; Philbin, Simon P.; Li, Hui; Skitmore, Martin; Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo (ICE Publishing, 2021-04)

[EN] There are few studies analysing whether different types of environmental regulation have differential impacts on the efficiency of the construction industry. Using 2012¿2016 panel data from 30 provinces in China, the ...
Estimating future bidding performance of competitor bidders in capped tenders

Ballesteros Pérez, Pablo; González-Cruz, María Carmen; Fernández Diego, Marta; Eugenio Pellicer (Taylor & Francis: STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2014-07)

Research in Bid Tender Forecasting Models (BTFM) has been in progress since the 1950s. None of the developed models were easy-to-use tools for effective use by bidding practitioners because the advanced mathematical apparatus ...
Estimating the number of new and repeated bidders in construction auctions

Ballesteros-Pérez, Pablo; Skitmore, Martin (Taylor & Francis, 2016)

[EN] The number of new bidders ¿ bidders from whom there is no previous registered participation ¿ is an important variable in most bid tender forecasting models, since the unknown competitive profile of the former strongly ...