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Improved business results through benchmarking
EDWARD W. MERROW, WILLIAM H. CROKERChevron has successfully used benchmarking to improve the performance of our project management system.
The organization of construction research in British universities
PETER R. LANSLEY, RACHAEL LUCK, SARAH LUPTONThe paper provides details of the size and scope of construction research carried out in a number of architecture, civil engineering and building related departments in British…
The New Engineering Contract: principles of design and risk allocation
JOHN G. PERRYThe paper begins with a brief history of the New Engineering Contract (NEC) and outlines the response by the NEC Panel to the proposals made in the Latham Report. The main…
Environments of construction
YNGVE HAMMARLUNDDevelopment of strategies and long‐term decision making play important roles in construction due to the considerable service length of its products. In construction firms…
A GIS‐based pipeline planning system
SAEED M. FENIS, JAMES E. DIEKMANN, PEI‐YU HUANGThis paper describes a research and development effort on a GIS‐based pipeline planning system (GIS‐based PPS). Research was first conducted to identify the aspects of pipeline…
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