Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 12 Issue 2

Construction firms at the crossroads in Hong Kong: Going insolvency or seeking opportunity

John K.W. Chan, C.M. Tam, Ruby K.C. Cheung

To assist contractors in Hong Kong to review their past financial performance and to formulate new strategies for their business survival in the coming years.

Perceptions of positive and negative factors influencing the attractiveness of PPP/PFI procurement for construction projects in the UK: Findings from a questionnaire survey

Bing Li, A. Akintoye, P.J. Edwards, C. Hardcastle

The paper aims to report the findings of research into perceptions of what makes the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) attractive or unattractive as a procurement system for…

Is there a relationship between construction conflicts and participants' satisfaction?

Mei‐yung Leung, Anita M.M. Liu, S. Thomas Ng

Construction conflict should not be simply defined as a functional or dysfunctional element in the management process. The second generation conflict management investigates the…

Delivering sustainability through value management: Concept and performance overview

Nazirah Zainul Abidin, Christine L. Pasquire

The attention on sustainability issues within value management (VM) practices is uncertain due to the scarcity of information on this subject in the available literature. As a…

Partnering practice and the delivery of construction projects for Housing Associations in the UK

Chris Fortune, Shinta Setiawan

Housing Associations in the UK are being encouraged to change the way in which they procure their building projects. This work aims to provide a snapshot of current practice in…

Computer integrated construction: an approach to requirements engineering

Yusuf Arayici, Ghassan Aouad

This paper aims at proposing a process of requirements engineering for the human centred, adaptive computer integrated construction systems development through industry wide…

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