Albert P C Chan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4417320 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Albert P C Chan |
| PRENOMES | Albert P C |
| SOBRENOME | Chan |
| ASSINATURA | CHAN A P C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4853-6440 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Spatiotemporal Particle Swarm Optimization for Future Cost Allocation in Large-Scale Transportation Infrastructure Maintenance
Transportation infrastructure is vital for sustaining communities and fostering economic development. Urbanization and climate change have led to the rapid deterioration of road transport systems, posing significant challenges for future sustainability. Current transportation infrastructure maintenance planning often prioritizes immediate needs and short-term deterioration indicators, which can overlook long-term changes and future funding constr…
Exploring influencing factors of health resilience for urban buildings by integrated CHATGPT-empowered Bertopic model
Institutional drivers for circular economy implementation in transitional housing
Exploring and measuring the health resilience of urban buildings against the pandemic
Automating building environmental assessment
The impact of penalties, incentives, and monitoring costs on the stakeholders’ decision-making behaviors in non-compliance drone operations
Evaluating building egress safety for the elderly under different urgent-level circumstances in high-density cities
A bibliometric-qualitative literature review of green finance gap and future research directions
Green finance (GF) supports the global fight against climate change and its impacts. It is critical to attaining the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Since GF is regarded as the future of finance and investment, it needs to be fully understood. This paper presents the first mixed-methods systematic review with both bibliometric and qualitative analysis of the state-of-the-art and trends in GF research. A bibli…
Mapping interorganizational knowledge sharing mechanisms in projects from the socio-technical perspective
Improving Safety Performance of Construction Workers through Learning from Incidents
Learning from incidents (LFI) is a process to seek, analyse, and disseminate the severity and causes of incidents, and take corrective measures to prevent the recurrence of similar events. However, the effects of LFI on the learner's safety performance remain unexplored. This study aimed to identify the effects of the major LFI factors on the safety performance of workers. A questionnaire survey was administered among 210 construction workers in …
Wearable Sensing and Mining of the Informativeness of Older Adults’ Physiological, Behavioral, and Cognitive Responses to Detect Demanding Environmental Conditions
Due to the decline in functional capability, older adults are more likely to encounter excessively demanding environmental conditions (that result in stress and/or mobility limitation) than the average person. Current efforts to detect such environmental conditions are inefficient and are not person-centered. This study presents a more efficient and person-centered approach that involves using wearable sensors to collect continuous bodily respons…
Assessing the public-private partnership handover
To build or not to build, that is the uncertainty
Nip risk in the bud
BIM-enabled multi-level assessment of age-friendliness of urban housing based on multiscale spatial framework
Opportunities and Challenges for Construction Health and Safety Technologies under the Covid-19 Pandemic in Chinese Construction Projects
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in significant delays and cost overrun in construction projects. The implementation of health and safety (H&S) technologies is one of the most important strategies to alleviate the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on the construction industry and help the industry adapt to the new normal. This study aims to evaluate the adoption of H&S technologies for pandemic management in the constructio…
Age-friendly cities and communities
The unprecedented increase in the ageing population, coupled with urbanisation, has led to a vast number of research publications on age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC). However, the existing reviews on AFCC studies are not sufficiently up-to-date for AFCC researchers. This paper presents a thorough analysis of the annual publication trend, the contributions of authors and institutions from different countries, and the trending research th…
A scientometric analysis of the housing affordability literature
Tackling corruption in urban infrastructure procurement
Predicting the elderly's quality of life based on dynamic neighborhood environment under diverse scenarios
Corruption in the Public Construction Sector
Towards corruption-free cities
Diverse contributions of multiple mediators to the impact of perceived neighborhood environment on the overall quality of life of community-dwelling seniors
A Survey of Work-Related Pain Prevalence Among Construction Workers in Hong Kong
Construction workers undertake demanding physical work and face high risk of injuries in poor working environments. This case-control study investigated the extent of their musculoskeletal pain incidence at work. A total of 2021 construction workers in different trades were interviewed on-site in a survey from December 2017 to December 2018. The survey results revealed that the pain prevalence of the subjects in the last 24 h was 10.6 %. The wors…
Building Healthy Eating Knowledge and Behavior
Background: Prior research has found poor health among construction workers is related to poor nutrition and low fruit and vegetable consumption. Promoting nutrition knowledge can improve dietary behaviors, but nutrition education among construction workers is limited. We evaluated the effectiveness of nutrition education on fruit and vegetable consumption among construction apprentices. In this pilot evaluative study, 36 construction apprentices…
Diverse contributions of multiple mediators to the impact of perceived neighborhood environment on the overall quality of life of community-dwelling seniors
Root causes of conflict and conflict resolution mechanisms in public-private partnerships
A scientometric analysis of the housing affordability literature
Critical analysis of green building research trend in construction journals
Nip risk in the bud
Developing a project sustainability index for sustainable development in transnational public–private partnership projects
During the last couple of years, sustainability has become topical in transnational public–private partnership (TPPP) projects primarily because of the enormous impact TPPP projects have on the environment, economic, and well‐being of people. This paper aims to develop a model that could be used to evaluate the sustainability levels of TPPP projects. The proposed model consists of four categories of social responsibility factors; these include ec…
A European Document on the Fall of the Ming Dynasty (1644–1649)
(1981). A European Document on the Fall of the Ming Dynasty (1644–1649) Monumenta Serica: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 75-109
The Glory and Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Michele Ruggieri, S.J. (1543–1607) and His Chinese Poems
(1993). Michele Ruggieri, S.J. (1543–1607) and His Chinese Poems. Monumenta Serica: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 129-176
Two Chinese Poems Written by Hsü Wei 徐渭 (1521–1593) on Michele Ruggieri, S.J. (1543–1607)
(1996). Two Chinese Poems Written by Hsu Wei 徐渭 (1521–1593) on Michele Ruggieri, S.J. (1543–1607) Monumenta Serica: Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 317-337
Reflections on marriage and family therapy emergent from international dialogues in China
Family is a central construct in Chinese life. Although central, it is also a changing construct as China becomes an increasingly international nation. This article discusses the Chinese family system in context, the challenges to existing constructs, and issues of cultural competence in the midst of change. Using diverse constructs such as pastoral care, existential ethics, and systemic approaches, it is possible to develop means of approaching …
Recommended measures on the revitalizing industrial buildings scheme in Hong Kong
Revitalizing industrial buildings in Hong Kong—A case review
Impacts of the Revitalizing Industrial Buildings (RIB) Scheme in Hong Kong
Health Profile of Construction Workers in Hong Kong
Construction is a manual, heavy, and complex sector concerning the most fatal accidents and high incidence of occupational illnesses and injuries resulting in days away from work. In Hong Kong, "Pilot Medical Examination Scheme for Construction Workers" was launched in 2014 to detect the health problems of their construction workforce. All registered workers under the Construction Workers Registration Board are eligible to join the scheme. The pu…
Multilevel Safety Climate and Safety Performance in the Construction Industry
The character of construction projects exposes front-line workers to dangers and accidents. Safety climate has been confirmed to be a predictor of safety performance in the construction industry. This study aims to explore the underlying mechanisms of the relationship between multilevel safety climate and safety performance. An integrated model was developed to study how particular safety climate factors of one level affect those of other levels,…
Critical analysis of green building research trend in construction journals
Modeling the Relationship between Safety Climate and Safety Performance in a Developing Construction Industry
This study attempts to validate a safety performance (SP) measurement model in the cross-cultural setting of a developing country. In addition, it highlights the variations in investigating the relationship between safety climate (SC) factors and SP indicators. The data were collected from forty under-construction multi-storey building projects in Pakistan. Based on the results of exploratory factor analysis, a SP measurement model was hypothesiz…
Effects of Heat Stress on Construction Labor Productivity in Hong Kong
Global warming is bringing more frequent and severe heat waves, and the result will be serious for vulnerable populations such as construction workers. Excessive heat stress has profound effects on physiological responses, which cause occupational injuries, fatalities and low productivity. Construction workers are particularly affected by heat stress, because of the body heat production caused by physically demanding tasks, and hot and humid work…
Drivers for green building
Accidents of Electrical and Mechanical Works for Public Sector Projects in Hong Kong
A study on electrical and mechanical (E&M) works-related accidents for public sector projects provided the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the causes of accidents by analyzing the circumstances of all E&M works accidents. The research aims to examine accidents of E&M works which happened in public sector projects. A total of 421 E&M works-related accidents in the "Public Works Programme Construction Site Safety and Environmental Sta…
Relationships among Safety Climate, Safety Behavior, and Safety Outcomes for Ethnic Minority Construction Workers
In many countries, it is common practice to attract and employ ethnic minority (EM) or migrant workers in the construction industry. This primarily occurs in order to alleviate the labor shortage caused by an aging workforce with a lack of new entrants. Statistics show that EM construction workers are more likely to have occupational fatal and nonfatal injuries than their local counterparts; however, the mechanism underlying accidents and injurie…
A Bayesian Network Model for Reducing Accident Rates of Electrical and Mechanical (E&M) Work
Accidents in Repair, Maintenance, Alteration, and Addition (RMAA) work have become a growing concern, in recent years. The repair and maintenance works of electrical and mechanical (E&M) installations involves a variety of trades, a large number of practitioners and a series of high-risk activities. The uniqueness of E&M work, in the RMAA sector, requires a discrete and specific research to improve its safety performance. Understanding the causal…
Cardiovascular Health of Construction Workers in Hong Kong
The findings highlighted the importance of promoting cardiovascular health in the construction industry. This study provided some insights for future interventions, which should include increasing fish and seafood intake, decreasing soft drink consumption, and enhancing the health literacy amongst older, less educated, and male construction workers
A Survey of Work-Related Pain Prevalence Among Construction Workers in Hong Kong
Construction workers undertake demanding physical work and face high risk of injuries in poor working environments. This case-control study investigated the extent of their musculoskeletal pain incidence at work. A total of 2021 construction workers in different trades were interviewed on-site in a survey from December 2017 to December 2018. The survey results revealed that the pain prevalence of the subjects in the last 24 h was 10.6 %. The wors…
Building Healthy Eating Knowledge and Behavior
Background: Prior research has found poor health among construction workers is related to poor nutrition and low fruit and vegetable consumption. Promoting nutrition knowledge can improve dietary behaviors, but nutrition education among construction workers is limited. We evaluated the effectiveness of nutrition education on fruit and vegetable consumption among construction apprentices. In this pilot evaluative study, 36 construction apprentices…
The ends required to justify the means for sustainable affordable housing
In this time of increasing housing demand and incessant housing supply deficit, the need for critical success criteria (CSC) to qualitatively and quantitatively measure the performance of affordable housing projects has become even more relevant. Though affordable housing has received much attention in the construction industry, success in affordable housing is interpreted differently by different researchers and is an abstract term difficult to …
Developing a project sustainability index for sustainable development in transnational public–private partnership projects
During the last couple of years, sustainability has become topical in transnational public–private partnership (TPPP) projects primarily because of the enormous impact TPPP projects have on the environment, economic, and well‐being of people. This paper aims to develop a model that could be used to evaluate the sustainability levels of TPPP projects. The proposed model consists of four categories of social responsibility factors; these include ec…
Root causes of conflict and conflict resolution mechanisms in public-private partnerships
Corruption in the Public Construction Sector
Corruption in the Public Construction Sector
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