The current paper aims to identify the individual competencies of collaborators in Industry 4.0 projects. We used the Delphi method with three rounds as a research methodology. Sixty-three experts engaged with Industry 4.0 projects, professionals and academics, participated in the study. A set of individual competencies related to Industry 4.0 was identified: 1) technical (technical skills, systemic process comprehension, IT security skills, project management tendency, analytical skills, and business knowledge); 2) personal (flexibility, learning motivation, decision-making, ambiguity tolerance, and ability to work under pressure); 3) methodological (creativity, digital mindset, and entrepreneur thinking); 4) social aspects (communication skills, team-working skills, being committed and proactive, conflict resolution, and leadership skills). The findings led to a list of competencies for project managers and other team members in the Industry 4.0' context. This result provides new insights related to personnel development in project-managed environments and educational guidance for the future workforce.
Construction project suspension is known to be one of the big issues that have a significant negative impact on the project and its participants. The paper's key goal is to adhere to the degree to which the project achieves its goals (timely and budgetary implementation). It also helps to understand the obstacles, challenges and causes that the project faces explicitly or implicitly, thereby providing background information for the delay. These factors will lead to a reduction in economic viability, forcing projects particularly in developing countries, to overrun and decrease in growth opportunities. Finally, the paper puts in a quantitative framework to calculate the delay effects and to predict the possible losses, using GSA algorithm to find the best solution for certain delays in construction projects. The unavailability of the client's serious evaluation of the bidders' 'real' technical capabilities through the tendering phase prioritises the awarding of bids to incompetent contractors, bringing them forward and winning the bids. GSA is a very easy solution to find, as most of its velocity is about zero.
