Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction: Volume 12 Issue 1

Ownership structure and corporate performance: empirical evidence of China’s listed property companies

Qiulin Ke, David Isaac

This paper investigates the relationship of ownership structure and corporate performance of China’s listed property companies. Data from all the listed property companies on…

Relationships between total construction cost and design related variables

David J Lowe, Margaret W Emsley, Anthony Harding

This paper seeks to redress the omission in recent literature on the influence of project strategic, site related and design related variables on the cost of construction. It…

Fuzzy rule based system approach to assess cleaning costs of carpet flooring

N Wang, R M W Horner

The impact of ‘context of use’ to the whole life costs (WLC) of building elements has not yet been studied in previous researches. Lack of hard and detailed historical data…

An evaluation of the impact of risk on project cost overrun in the Nigerian construction industry

Joshua O Dada, G O Jagboro

One of the major reasons for ineffective project delivery in the Nigerian construction industry is the improper assessment of risk factors. As a result, the industry continues to…

Management of change order claims in the Egyptian industrial construction sector

AMR A G Hassanein, Waleed El Nemr

The term claim has become of paramount significance in construction projects worldwide. This research is targeted at providing a deeper insight of the status of claims management…