Events in recent months, not least the Prime Minister's speech at Ruskin College and the so called ‘Great Debate’, have focussed attention on to the educational arena. Many have publicly expressed their disquiet at the lack of accountability which the professionals in the educational field...

Despite the crucial importance of the 'bid/no bid' decision in the construction industry, it has been given little attention by researchers. This paper describes the development and testing of a novel bid/no bid model using the artificial neural network (ANN) technique. A back-propagation...

In 1903, the world's first garden city was founded in Hertfordshire, England. The utopian dream to combine the best of town and country living was about to be progressed from concept to reality. A hundred and ten years later, Letchworth Garden City is a thriving town of 33,000 people who enjoy...