Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 11 Issue 1

Applications of value management in the construction industry in China

Qiping Shen, Guiwen Liu

Value management (VM) was introduced in China during 1978, when the reform and open door policy started. After a surge of VM applications that emerged in the late 1980s, the…

Sequencing problems in methods of organising construction processes

Zdzisław Hejducki

This paper presents the algorithm of construction work graphic schedule which considers the proper sequencing problem. Describes the algorithm step by step, i.e. the construction…

Psychological contract expectations of construction project managers

Andrew R.J. Dainty, Ani B. Raiden, Richard H. Neale

The past 20 years have seen a period of fundamental change for many construction businesses as they have restructured, downsized, de‐layered, merged and de‐merged to survive…

How important is cooperation to construction project success? A grounded empirical quantification

Florence T.T. Phua, Steve Rowlinson

Cooperation is generally purported to be vital to construction project success. However, there has been, as yet, no empirical work done to quantify explicitly the extent to which…

Planning, estimation and productivity in the lean concrete pour

Paul Dunlop, Simon D. Smith

With an increasingly competitive global market, the UK construction industry finally realised that in order to survive, a marked increase in efficiency and effectiveness have to…

The impact of mergers and acquisitions on shareholder wealth in the UK construction industry

Frank T. Delaney, Sam C. Wamuziri

One of the primary motives behind any strategic corporate decision is to maximise shareholder value. Strategic decisions for UK construction firms are made with the objective of…

Editorial

Ron McCaffer

Note from the publisher

John Peters