Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 7 Issue 4

A decision support system specification for out‐turn cost and cost escalation in the heavy engineering industry

NASHWAN N. DAWOOD, WILLIAM BATES

The heavy civil engineering industry (railways, sewage treatment, chemical and pharmaceutical facilities, oil and gas facilities, etc.) is one of the major contributors to the…

Identification of optimal size resources for a repetitive housing construction

M. DHANASEKAR

Deployment of optimal size of resources is a key issue in repetitive construction projects. This paper describes a simulation model based on queuing theory for the resource…

Human dimensions in modelling prices of building projects

RICHARD FELLOWS, ANITA M.M. LIU

This paper supplements and extends consideration of quantitative models with application to building (costs and) prices by examining human elements inherent in modelling. In…

Enhancing building product libraries to enable the dynamic definition of design element specifications

JASON UNDERWOOD, MUSTAFA A. ALSHAWI, GHASSAN AOUAD, TERRY CHILD, IHSAN Z. FARAJ

The AIC Research Group at the University of Salford has been involved in a government‐funded project that has resulted in the development of an integrated multi‐user distributed…

Importance of design consultants' soft skills in design‐build projects

FLORENCE YEAN‐YNG LING, GEORGE OFORI &SUI PHENG LOW

Architects and engineers (AE) need to possess both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills. Soft skills are important because AE interact in organizational settings instead of working by…

Improving the performance of Earned Value Analysis as a construction project management tool

RODNEY HOWES

Earned Value Analysis (EVA) is an accepted theoretical technique advocated for the control of projects. This paper attempts to refine and improve the performance of traditional…

Government support and risk‐return trade‐off in China's BOT power projects

S. YE, R.K.L. TIONG

Government support plays an important part in risk‐return trade‐off of participants in privately financed infrastructure projects. Depending on the level of government support…

Measuring the costs and benefits of information technology in construction

ROGER FLANAGAN, LAURENCE MARSH

Information technology (IT) has been widely applied across many economic sectors in order to increase competitiveness and reduce costs. This paper identifies that uptake of IT…