Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 17 Issue 4

Measuring project risk management process for construction contractors with statement indicators linked to numerical scores

Grant Kululanga, Witness Kuotcha

There is relatively low implementation of formal project risk management methods in practice, leading to the construction industry consistently suffering from poor project…

Simulating the effect of risks on equity return for concession‐based public‐private partnership projects

S. Thomas Ng, Jingzhu Xie, Mohan M. Kumaraswamy

Unlike other project delivery options, a much larger proportion of risks is borne by the private partner in public‐private partnerships, since a large amount of equity is needed…

Using analytic network process to assess business failure risks of construction firms

Irem Dikmen, M. Talat Birgonul, Beliz Ozorhon, Nurdan Egilmezer Sapci

The paper seeks to identify the determinants of business failure in construction and to predict the failure likelihood of construction companies by assessing their current…

The survival strategies of Singapore contractors in prolonged recession

Benson Teck Heng Lim, Bee Lan Oo, Florence Ling

Contractors adopt various strategies to achieve their firms' objectives of continued existence and further development, and to guide the relationship between the firms and the…

Dispute causation: identification of pathogenic influences in construction

Peter Love, Peter Davis, Joanne Ellis, Sai On Cheung

While a considerable amount of knowledge has been accumulated about dispute causation, disputes continue to prevail and disharmonise the process of construction with considerable…

Bid mark‐up selection using artificial neural networks and an entropy metric

Symeon Christodoulou

The purpose of the paper is to perform bid mark‐up optimisation through the use of artificial neural networks (ANN) and a metric of the selected bid mark‐up's derived entropy. The…

Editorial

Ronald McCaffer