The construction industry of Hong Kong has a very poor site safety record. The overall accident rate has gone down a little during the last few years, but the number of fatalities has risen dramatically. In the past, the Hong Kong Government adopted a laissez-faire approach in managing...

Most real world decision-making combines quantitative and qualitative (linguistic) variables. Conventional mathematics that combines qualitative and quantitative concepts exhibits difficulty in modelling actual problems. The research presented in this paper illustrates a mathematical approach to...

The construction industry in Singapore is under pressure to improve its performance and the quality of its products and services. The Government is looking to see Singapore develop into a knowledge-based economy, and construction cannot be left behind. A recently published report about...

It is argued that money/credit supply is neutral with respect to the real sector. Existing studies have focused on the relationship between money supply and national output. However, this paper using data from Hong Kong (first quarter 1983-second quarter 1997) examines the extent to which...

A multiple-baseline experiment design across waste streams was used to determine the effectiveness of a goal setting and feedback intervention in bringing about improved solid waste management performance on a sports stadium construction site in Australia. A desktop method was used to measure...

Construction - The Third Way: Managing Cooperation and Competition in Construction John Bennett, Butterworth Heinemann, 2000, ISBN 0 7506 3093 0, 224 pp., £19.99

Do-it-yourself (DIY) is a staple element of the spare time activities of many households, but little is known about the extent to which basic repair work is carried out through DIY and about the quality of this work. Through secondary analyses of UK government data (English House Condition...

A mechanism is proposed for the evaluation of compensation due in the event of a variation order under contracts for construction work. It demonstrates how the indirect costs of a variation can be derived by the use of influence curves. Commonly it is accepted that such costs are very difficult...

The design of new residential development in the UK is castigated routinely in both the technical and broadsheet press, and has in the past few years become the focus of governmental policy initiatives intended to improve the overall standard of design in new housebuilding. Remarkably, however,...