Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 3 Issue 1

Prevention through design: Trade‐offs in reducing occupational health and safety risk for the construction and operation of a facility

Helen Lingard, Tracy Cooke, Nick Blismas, Ron Wakefield

The research aims to explore the interaction between design decisions that reduce occupational health and safety (OHS) risk in the operation stage of a facility's life cycle and…

A framework for stakeholder management and corporate culture

Jason von Meding, Keith McAllister, Lukumon Oyedele, Kevin Kelly

This paper aims to investigate the link between two knowledge areas that have not been previously linked conceptually: stakeholder management and corporate culture. Focussing on…

Modeling and assessment of competencies in urban local bodies for implementing PPP projects

Ganesh A. Devkar, Satyanarayana N. Kalidindi

The weak competencies in urban local bodies (ULBs) for implementing public private partnership (PPP) projects are recognized as a major hurdle in uptake of the PPP model in India…

External agencies for supplementing competencies in Indian urban PPP projects

Ganesh A. Devkar, Satyanarayana N. Kalidindi

The purpose of this paper is to analyze involvement of external agencies for supplementing competencies in Indian urban public private partnership (PPP) projects. There are two…

Value through innovation in long‐term service delivery : Facility management in an Australian PPP

Graham Brewer, Thayaparan Gajendran, Marcus Jefferies, Denny McGeorge, Steve Rowlinson, Andrew Dainty

Public‐private partnerships (PPPs) and other innovative procurement mechanisms are frequently used to deliver both an asset and a public service over a protracted period. The…

PFI/PPP, private sector perspectives of UK transport and healthcare

Robert Eadie, Phillip Millar, Rory Grant

Public private partnerships (PPP) and the private finance initiative (PFI) are defined as a range of practical long‐standing relationships between the public and private sectors…

Bathtub curves and pipe prioritization based on failure rate

Amarjit Singh, Stacy Adachi

The purpose of this paper is to analyze conditional failure rates, and prioritize water pipelines for replacement based on their expected failure rate where pipes are grouped…

Use of ANNs in complex risk analysis applications

Nayanthara De Silva, Malik Ranasinghe, C.R. De Silva

Artificial neural network (ANN) has been used for risk analysis in various applications such as engineering, financial and facilities management. However, use of a single network…

Strategies for construction waste management in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Florence Yean Yng Ling, Dinh Song Anh Nguyen

There is a lack of waste minimization in Vietnam. This study aims to investigate the barriers that are faced in implementing waste management and the extent to which waste…

Joining hands and advancing together

Mohan Kumaraswamy