Constructability is an approach that links the design and construction processes, which can lead to significant savings in both cost and time required for completing construction projects. Improving constructability of construction projects is the responsibility of all project stakeholders:...

The top transnational construction corporations (TCCs) are ranked according to their international revenues by the <italic>Engineering News Record</italic>. The amount or share of international revenues of a contractor however does not necessarily reflect the contractor's global performance. The geographic...

Labour deployment on representative large-scale housing projects is analysed to reveal distinct differences between England, Germany, Scotland and Denmark. In the light of the debates on convergence/divergence of HRM systems and qualitatively different production systems, the paper is apposite...

A survey of construction companies' secondary disability management practices was undertaken in the state of Victoria, Australia. The results indicate that formal rehabilitation and return-to-work programmes and practices are not adopted in many companies. Smaller construction firms were less...

The construction industry is currently in transition as a result of innovations in procurement and project management approaches, in particular, the utilization of supply chain management, and technology or work clusters in the context of partnering relationships between project coalition actors...

Poor project performance is generally attributed to a lack of co-operation between project participants. Much work is directed towards understanding the structural and organizational antecedents of co-operation, but little in understanding how socio-psychological factors affect individual...

In real-world situations, the project managers must handle conflicting goals that govern the use of the resources within organizations. These conflicting goals must are required to be optimized simultaneously by the project managers in the framework of fuzzy aspiration levels. The multiple fuzzy...

An empirical method was developed for the prediction of the service life of building components, based on an evaluation of their actual performance and on the identification of failure mechanisms affecting their durability. The service life of exterior components subjected to normal service...