The construction project team is a demanding, high-stress environment, yet wary participants can be extremely difficult in sharing their knowledge with others. This is a study that targets dynamic knowledge sharing in a construction project team, constructing a dynamic incentive model framework. It is done through the differential game theory, and the application of the Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation is introduced to solve a Nash non-cooperative game and Leader-follower differential games. The results show that the optimal strategy of the Nash game is that agents do not share any knowledge and the principal does not give any incentives. However, the participants will share the cumulative amount of knowledge in the Leader-follower differential games, and the optimal profits of agents and principal are increased as time progressed, and the agents’ effort level of knowledge sharing eventually tending to stability.

The project delivery mode is an extremely important link in the life cycle of water engineering. Many cases show that increases in the costs, construction period, and claims in the course of the implementation of water engineering are related to the decision of the project delivery mode in the early stages. Therefore, it is particularly important to choose a delivery mode that matches the water engineering. On the basis of identifying the key factors that affect the decision on the project delivery system and establishing a set of index systems, a comprehensive decision of engineering transaction is essentially considered to be a fuzzy multi-attribute group decision. In this study, intuitionistic fuzzy entropy was used to determine the weight of the influencing factors on the engineering transaction mode; then, intuitionistic fuzzy entropy was used to determine the weight of decision experts. Thus, a comprehensive scheme-ranking model based on an intuitionistic fuzzy hybrid average (IFHA) operator and intuitionistic fuzzy weighted average (IFWA) operator was established. Finally, a practical case analysis of a hydropower station further demonstrated the feasibility, objectivity, and scientific nature of the decision model.

A future community is a community with the core mission of realizing people’s vision of a better life, focusing on meeting the all-round life needs of community residents. Residents’ participation in the construction of a future community is also regarded as one of the core driving forces to promote the sustainable development and innovation of future community construction. Therefore, to better facilitate the construction of future communities, based on relevant studies at home and abroad, this thesis combines questionnaire surveys and expert interviews, identifies 20 driving factors from five levels of human nature, ecology, intelligence, convenience, livability, etc., according to which it constructs a system dynamics model and carries out a simulation analysis, observes the effects of the driving factors at each level on residents’ sense of belonging and sense of participation, and finally, the results of the analyses are combined to put forward relevant suggestions for future community building. The results of this study show that residents’ perception of future community construction, their demand for intelligent life, the degree of promotion of a 15 min community living circle, and the degree of improvement of a community’s disaster warning and emergency response mechanism are the key factors driving resident participation in the construction of a future community, with residents’ demand for intelligence at different times being the most central driving factor. The research results of this thesis provide theoretical references for stimulating resident participation and building livable future communities while offering insights applicable to global contexts, particularly in regions undergoing rapid urbanization and digital transformation.

Large‐scale construction projects are characterized by the temporary cooperation of different parties with objectives, making it challenging to learn from failure under great time pressures. Learning from failure in such multiparties projects must overcome the fear of speaking out the “failure,” reflected by organizational psychology safety. This study aims to explore the impact of organizational psychology safety on the motivation of learning from failure under the mediating role of time pressure by a cross‐sectional study. Data was collected by a questionnaire survey of 189 construction practitioners and analyzed by applying regression analysis. Results show that organizational psychology safety was negatively associated with time pressure and positively with the motivation of learning from failure. Time pressure was detrimental to the motivation of learning from failure, and it partially mediated the relationship between organizational psychology safety and motivation of learning from failure. Insights from the analysis could help the managers of organizations or projects to attach importance to the influence and role of learning from failure and could provide them with guides to implement lessons‐learned systems.

Purpose: Near misses in the construction industry act as critical early warnings of potential hazards, they profoundly reveal the underlying risks within the construction system. Despite extensive attention, existing research remains fragmented and limited in perspective. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by systematically summarizing and analyzing antecedents, consequences and control measures of near misses, helping to determine future research directions and providing reliable suggestions that combine theory and practice. Design/methodology/approach: During the research process, research followed the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines and identified 48 articles for systematic review. Bow-tie Analysis (BTA) was then applied to code tertiary factors concerning antecedents, consequences, and control measures, forming the concept of a near-miss lifecycle management (NMLM). Findings: Findings reveal insufficient practical competence as a primary antecedent, with significant consequences including injuries and increased accident rates. Besides, current control measures focus on retrospective adjustments. Originality/value: This study aims to provide researchers and construction safety practitioners with a comprehensive knowledge framework for near misses and enable people to correctly face and handle them in different situations. Furthermore, based on the research results, research hopes that researchers will take proactive preventive measures rather than passively accept and handle them, in order to effectively reduce potential accidents and significantly improve the overall safety management level of the industry.

Objective: This study aims to design incentives for organizations to improve the work engagement of construction project managers (CPMs) when they experience work-family conflict. Methods: Based on principal-agent theory, a multistage dynamic incentive model for CPMs’ work engagement under the perspective of work-family conflict is constructed by integrating contract and reputation effect incentive mechanisms. Then MATLAB software was used to simulate the theoretical model for the arithmetic example. Finally, 182 valid questionnaires were tested for the conclusions of the model. Results: In the two stages of the incentive model, work resources significantly positively influence CPMs’ work engagement, and work-family conflict harms CPMs’ work engagement. Including a reputation mechanism has two effects on the first stage of the incentive model. First, reputation has an incentive effect on CPMs’ work engagement. Second, it reduces the negative impact of work-family conflict on work engagement. The combination of contract- and reputation-based incentives will improve CPMs’ work engagement. Conclusions: The results suggest that incentives targeted at increasing the work engagement of CPMs may be necessary.