Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 3 Issue 3

Competitive strategy for quantity surveying practices: the importance of information technology

MARTIN J. JENNINGS, MARTIN BETTS

Strategic planning in pursuit of competitive advantage has become a wide‐spread modern business objective. The construction industry shows some evidence of strategic planning…

Model for assessing building contractors' project performance

CHING MING TAM, FRANK HARRIS

This study describes the development of operational research models for predicting contractor performance in Hong Kong, using discriminant and multiple regression analysis…

Review of environmental assessment in UK building construction: current awareness, concerns and issues

ALAN GRIFFITH

Environmental Assessment (EA) or Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the recognized procedure for ensuring that the potential environmental effects of new building or…

Planned construction times and labour utilization — a comparison of UK and French contractors

DAVID G. PROVERBS, PAUL O. OLOMOLAIYE, FRANK C. HARRIS

The results of a model based survey of contractors' planning engineers in France and the UK suggest that planned completion times for constructing an identical high‐rise in situ…

An intelligent approach to the engineering management of subsidence cases

DARREN SCOTT, CHIMAY J. ANUMBA

The engineering management of housing subsidence cases is an important field of work for many UK engineers, and remains of enduring interest to householders, insurers and other…