With the rise in the public concern on environmental protection, more construction firms start to apply environmental management for their construction activities. As a result, environmental management systems (EMS) have been implemented in construction. However, to improve the construction...

Construction projects are increasingly multidisciplinary and the role of a project coordinator has become critical for success. A clear differentiation is drawn between the roles of a project manager and a project coordinator, and the attributes required in a successful project coordinator are...

Formal risk analysis techniques applied in managing construction project risks tend to focus on risks that lend themselves to 'objective' methods of economic analysis. Although subjective probabilities and Bayesian methods are applied successfully in other industries to manage 'subjective' risks...

Bon's book Building as an Economic Process: An Introduction to Building Economics was an important step in the development of the economic theory of the built environment. The book's aim was to establish theoretical foundations for building economics, using the perspective of Austrian economics....

Following the work of Bon, this article compares the stability of two types of input-output models. These are, the Leontief (or demand-driven) model and the Ghosh (or supply-driven) model. The empirical results are based on a times series of annual input-output tables for the Netherlands,...

The daily site report (DSR)—a common tool, which contains a lot of valuable data— is normally used for litigation purposes, i.e. claims and dispute resolution. All these valuable data are rarely used for the management and control of the ongoing project. The purpose of the current research...

Overlapping activities that are traditionally performed in a sequential manner can significantly reduce project delivery times. Overlapping, however, should be approached in a systematic manner to reduce the costs and risks. Information gathered from sector-based case studies and from the...