Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 10 Issue 4

Investigating interpersonal communication during construction progress meetings: challenges and opportunities

Christopher A. Gorse, Stephen Emmitt

Progress meetings provide a central forum for requesting and exchanging the information necessary for the successful completion of construction projects. Although common to the…

The accuracy of housing forecasting in Australia

Anthony Mills, David Harris, Martin Skitmore

Forecasting is an integral part of all business planning, and forecasting the outlook for housing is of interest to many firms in the housing construction sector. This research…

Risk management practices of leading UK cost consultants

Gerard D. Wood, Robert C.T. Ellis

Risk management (RM) is now widely accepted as an important tool in the management of projects. Through a series of semi‐structured interviews with RM facilitators, current…

Artificial neural network for the selection of buildable structural systems

Tabarak M.A. Ballal, William D. Sher

In this study, artificial neural networks have been developed to acquire construction knowledge from past projects to integrate buildability considerations into the preliminary…

An integrated system for duration estimation in design/build projects and organizations

Alaattin Kanoglu

Overruns to planned schedules are common in civil construction projects worldwide. Yet, the construction industry fails to recognize the criticality of the problem, and while…

The strategy process within large construction orgnisations

A.D.F. Price

This paper investigates current approaches to the process of managing strategy within the construction industry. The results from nine case studies have been summarised under the…

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