Very few construction companies and consulting firms in Australia measure their costs of quality. Consequently, it is difficult for them to prove that systems for preventing quality failures are cost-effective. Although the direct costs of a quality system can be quantified with some accuracy...

Construction project managers work under conditions of uncertainty and high risk, and this can contribute to an excessive level of work-related stress being experienced. To date, there has been limited research that has examined how project managers cope with work-related stress. This paper...

Many construction organizations have misunderstood the reality that total quality management (TQM) based on continuous improvement requires a commitment to learning and that essentially it is the means to a learning organization. The paper argues that if the construction industry is to improve...

Wong, K. C. and Walker, A. (2000) Construction Management and Economics, 18 (2), 131-138 have argued that co-operative joint venture arrangements (with state enterprises in the People's Republic of China) reduce the dissipation of rent under public ownership, which leads to an apparent transfer...

Rework that is experienced in construction projects is often caused by errors made during the design process. Factors that contribute to design errors are identified and used to design and develop a systems dynamics model, which is used to simulate a number of practical scenarios that can be...

The court in <em>CCC Holdings</em> (1) unambiguously followed <em>Whole Foods </em>(despite there being no majority opinion), (2) received the message that lower courts really should apply “serious questions†as the standard for FTC requests for a preliminary injunction, and (3)...

Rule-based expert systems and artificial neural networks are two major systems for developing intelligent decision support systems. The integration of the two systems can generate a new system which shares the strengths of both rule-based and artificial neural network systems. This research...

The public – private partnership (PPP) market in Australia is considered to be sophisticated and mature. Yet there have been several major failures that have occurred with economic infrastructure projects. Building on the experiences of Australia, we examine the underlying concepts of PPPs...