Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 15 Issue 5

The role of climate for innovation in enhancing business performance: The case of design firms

Kriengsak Panuwatwanich, Rodney A. Stewart, Sherif Mohamed

Innovation and the process of diffusion have been widely acknowledged as hinging upon the complex social psychological process. Invariably, such a process manifests itself in the…

Flow modelling of construction site materials and waste logistics: A case study from Cape Town, South Africa

Winston Shakantu, Mundia Muya, John Tookey, Paul Bowen

The purpose of this paper is to determine the nature and extent of the current practice of logistics in the construction industry and to investigate the utility of reverse…

Internationalizing quantity surveying services

Florence Yean Yng Ling, Amy Hui Min Chan

With the advent of globalization, consultancy firms could easily offer services outside their home countries. This study aims to investigate how quantity surveying (QS) firms in…

Claims management in the Egyptian industrial construction sector: a contractor's perspective

Amr A.G. Hassanein, Waleed El Nemr

This research aims at providing a better insight of the status of claims management in general, and change order claims in particular, from the contractor's perspective with…

Claimants' view of the performance of adjudication in new South Wales

T.E. Uher, M.C. Brand

This paper forms part of on‐going research project being undertaken by the authors into performance of the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW…

Modelling customer perceived service quality in housing construction

Perry Forsythe

This paper aims to develop a theoretical model concerning the way service quality impacts on the perceptions of customers in housing construction.

Editorial

Ronald McCaffer