Global competitiveness and increasing performance requirements have placed facilities management (FM) under constraints of limited resources, particularly in non-core aspects of facilities, such as maintenance and operations. The hypothesis applied in this research is that the actual service...

Despite privatization, many government-linked companies (GLCs) still continue to operate in Malaysia. Many have objectives that include the redressing of ethnic economic imbalance. Government-linked construction companies (GLCCs) were created within these larger public groups. A study was...

In traditional project delivery systems, payment mechanisms provide compensation for the work performed using construction capital payments. In the alternative public-private partnership (PPP) systems, payment mechanisms follow the selected PPP system. For example, the build-operate-transfer...

Major road maintenance projects need an accurate cost estimate at the early stage of design. At present, simple and quick models are lacking. Two easy-to-use cost models for major asphalt road maintenance projects are developed. The double mean model and the trend line model are based on the...

A knowledge-based diagnosis model for PCM executing problems in Taiwan public construction is proposed by using a new fuzzy-neural approach. The diagnosis model confirms the causalities of the critical executing problems. By inputting the fuzziness of semantic description of the problems in the...

Planning is a vital element of project management but it is still not recognized as a process variable. Its objective should be to outperform the initially defined processes, and foresee and overcome possible undesirable events. Detailed task-level master planning is unrealistic since one cannot...

Singapore's general insurers have been recording detrimental loss ratios in workers' compensation insurance business for construction projects. This is due to the ineffectiveness in the risk assessment for premium-rating and the failure of contractors to provide adequate safety measures with an...

Recent developments in procurement selection systems are reviewed and this reveals contradiction and conflict with previous work. A mathematical rank model called fuzzy procurement selection model (FPSM) is proposed to adapt to local circumstances. FPSM can be modified according to local...

Although the supervision system has been adopted in the construction industry for more than 10 years in China, a professional liability insurance system for the supervision engineer has yet to be established. The implementation of a professional liability insurance for the supervision engineer...

Numerous potential barriers to the interorganizational use of building information models (BIMs) have been reported. These potential barriers are technological and organizational. Further, potential barriers are specific to building information models and general to the diffusion of innovation....