Based on the polluter pays principle, construction waste disposal charging schemes (CWDCS) have been deployed by various economies as one of the most effective ways of managing construction waste. Nevertheless, a means of rationalizing these schemes has not been well documented. Using the...

Construction professional service (CPS) firms sell expertise and provide innovative solutions for projects founded on their knowledge, experience, and technical competences. Large CPS firms seeking to grow will often seek new opportunities in their domestic market and overseas by organic or...

Since the late 1970s, the <italic>Engineering News-Record</italic> (<italic>ENR</italic>) has produced annual lists ranking firms involved in development of the built environment on the basis of their international revenues. <italic>ENR</italic> lists, such as the Top 225 International Contractors and the Top 200 International Design Firms, have...

The construction sector is facing widespread criticism of its low efficiency and poor performance. This has led to a rethink of contemporary project management (PM). However, current critical perspectives have failed to diagnose the practical problems existing in PM, and as a consequence, no...

Since its popularization in the 1980s, competitiveness has received close attention from practitioners and researchers across a wide range of industries. In the construction sector, many works on competitiveness have also been published. So far, however, there seems to be no comprehensive review...

Construction waste comprises inert (e.g., sand, bricks, and concrete) and non-inert materials (e.g., bamboo, plastics, glass, wood, and paper). In Hong Kong, the inert portion can be deposited at public filling areas for land reclamation while the non-inert portion is disposed of at landfills....

With the involvement of an increasing number of contractors in the international construction market, venturing overseas has been fraught with fierce competition and considerable uncertainties. This underscores the importance of examining the extent to which the intensity of competition (IoC)...

Over the past few decades, studies on competition and organizational performance in the international construction market have been prolific. Construction companies are founded, then grow, compete, evolve, and die in the international landscape, a common process from an ecological perspective....

Solid waste arisen from construction activities is grave concern in many economies. Given its negative impacts to the natural environment as a public good, construction waste is often heavily regulated by authorities. Hong Kong is no exception to this; over the past decades, a series of...

The construction industry around the globe has been increasingly advocated to utilize prefabrication to minimize waste, thereby alleviating associated negative impacts on environment and the society. Previous studies have reported on waste reduction potential from adopting prefabrication in...