Australia has adopted public-private partnership (PPP) as a major strategy for procuring infrastructure for decades. However, even though considered to be a mature and sophisticated market, several major failures have occurred resulting in increasing financial burdens on taxpayers. Failures have...

As an integral part of risk management process, effective risk transfer should be based on a collective understanding of risks in terms of their impacts, responsible project stakeholders as well as likely stages of occurrence in a project life cycle. Until now, most research has focused on...

In recent years, scholars, practitioners and government agencies have paid increasing attention to project alliancing. Despite the fact that a number of studies have been undertaken to date, a comprehensive review of the previous studies on project alliancing has not appeared. Thus, the purpose...

The O(3) symmetric Anderson model is an example of a system which has a stable low energy marginal Fermi liquid fixed point for a certain choice of parameters. It is also exactly equivalent, in the large U limit, to a localized model which describes the spin degrees of freedom of the linear...