Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 10 Issue 2

Building competitive advantage: construction education in Japan

Willie Tan

This paper examines the way the Japanese education system strategically channels talent towards its elite universities, turning out a high proportion of engineers and architects…

Comparison of low‐waste building technologies adopted in public and private housing projects in Hong Kong

C.S. Poon, Ann T.W. Yu, L.H. Ng

Hong Kong is running out of both reclamation sites and landfill space for the disposal of construction and demolition waste. This paper reports on the findings of a study…

Using multivariate techniques for developing contractor classification models

C.H. Wong, J. Nicholas, G.D. Holt

Today’s growing numbers of contractor selection methodologies reflect the increasing awareness of the construction industry for improving its procurement process and performance…

Professional ethics in the construction industry

Charles Vee, CMartin Skitmore

Provides results of a small, but representative, questionnaire survey of typical project managers, architects and building contractors concerning their views and experiences on a…

An XML metadata approach to seamless project information exchange between heterogeneous platforms

Jason Underwood, Alastair Watson

A three year Esprit project – ProCure – is ultimately aiming to take a significant but achievable step forward in the application of available information and communication…

Fuzzy optimisation of labour allocation by genetic algorithms

Thomas K.L. Tong, C.M. Tam

Multi‐skilled labour allocation in a defined time frame falls into the class of non‐polynomial (NP) hard problems, solutions to which can only be obtained through repeated trials…

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