Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 19 Issue 3

Improving building services coordination at the pre‐installation stage

Sammy K.M. Wan, Mohan M. Kumaraswamy

Coordinating interdependencies between concurrent activities is a special challenge in managing increasingly complex building services projects. Effective coordination at the…

Client learning for successful architect‐client relationships

Jessica Siva, Kerry London

This paper seeks to explain how clients deal effectively with challenges on private single dwelling projects by achieving learning.

Factors affecting contractor's business failure: contractors' perspective

Ibrahim Mahamid

The main objective of this paper is to identify the factors that have the potential to cause a contractor's business failure in the West Bank in Palestine and to determine their…

Trust and the Project Management Body of Knowledge

Graham Brewer, Scott Strahorn

This paper aims to identify the extent to which dimensions of trust are reflected in the functional description of the role of a project manager as outlined in the Project…

Is incentivisation significant in ensuring successful partnered projects?

Deborah Hughes, Trefor Williams, Zhaomin Ren

This research aimed to test the hypothesis “The use of incentivisation with a gain/pain share of about 15 per cent is a precursor to the achievement of successful infrastructure…

Using stochastic frontier regression to estimate the construction cost inefficiency of prevailing wage laws

Kevin Duncan, Peter Philips, Mark Prus

The aim of this paper is to use stochastic frontier regression to measure the effect of the introduction and expansion of prevailing wage requirements on the cost efficiency of…

Editorial

Ronald McCaffer