The standard form of contract plays a significant role in a construction project as it communicates the procedures to be adopted in executing the project including the determination of the rights and obligations of contracting parties. Hence, an acceptable degree of commonality in interpretation...

Construction is a strategic industry in developing economies like Kenya. In order for construction to ably perform this role, there is a need to provide information on its various economic aspects including raw materials, products, processes, finance and labour. Construction statistics of Kenya...

This article proposes a pre-emptive mechanism that prevents a self-interested contractor from taking benefits resulting from any post-contractual opportunism. The mechanism is based on an option to switch from one contract to another. The client and the contractor must simultaneously enter into...

Recent work on pricing has shown that neoclassical microeconomic theory (NCMT) is preferred to tendering theory and that implied by absorption, or full-cost, pricing of construction work because of its explicit treatment of market conditions, competitor behaviour and firm capacity levels....

Strategic IT implementation decisions for major construction projects in Hong Kong are subject to various forces or factors identified in previous research—such as external forces, technological factors and organizational factors. The aim of this research was to examine the relationship (if...

Advocating good faith as a key element of construction contracts under a 'new contract morality', as it has been developed mainly in Canada, this paper presents the advantages of an open exchange of information, of an adequate way of treating the unavoidable contingencies and of a global...

In the Libyan construction industry, the supervising engineer plays an important role in checking time schedules and protecting the client from delays and associated claims but there is no existing means of determining their proficiency in performing this task. A list of factors identifying a...

Anticipating the future is increasingly being seen as a useful way to align, direct and improve current organizational strategy. Several such 'future studies' have been produced which envision various construction industry scenarios which result from technological and socio-economic trends and...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship-based factors that affect performance of general building projects in China. Eight performance metrics that may be used to measure the success level of construction projects are defined and categorized into two groups namely 'hard' and...

In examining the impact of environmental issues on construction law, recent construction-related legislation and litigation can be seen as indicators of the growing importance of specific property-related environmental issues. Through reference to relevant literature and law reports, several...