Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 14 Issue 5

Exploring effectiveness of team communication: Balancing synchronous and asynchronous communication in design teams

Ad den Otter, Stephen Emmitt

Effective teams use a balance of synchronous and asynchronous communication. Team communication is dependent on the communication acts of team members and the ability of managers…

Modeling for management of variations in building projects

Faisal Manzoor Arain, Low Sui Pheng

This paper seeks to present research into the development of a theoretical model for making more informed decisions for the management of variations in building projects…

Built‐in resilience to disasters: a pre‐emptive approach

Lee Bosher, Andrew Dainty, Patricia Carrillo, Jacqueline Glass

Professions involved with the construction industry need to become more aware of disaster risk management (DRM) activities if lessons are to be learned from the past and a…

Modelling contractors' mark‐up behaviour in different construction markets

Bee Lan Oo, Derek Drew, Hing‐Po Lo

In order to compete successfully, international contractors need to have an understanding not only of the make‐up of the different competitive environments within each country…

Determinants for effective performance of external project management consultants in Malaysia

Pollaphat Nitithamyong, Zijin Tan

The use of external project management consulting firms (PMCs) in construction projects has not been widely accepted by practitioners in Malaysia because of several failed…

Financial and operational performance indicators applied to public and private water and wastewater utilities

Amr A.G. Hassanein, Reham A. Khalifa

The paper seeks to assess the performance of 234 public and private water and wastewater utilities from industrialized and developing countries.

Editorial

Ronald McCaffer