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Outsourcing of property-related management functions in Europe and North America, 1993-1998

Bon, Ranko; Luck, Rachael - In: Construction Management and Economics 17 (1999) 4, pp. 409-412

Management Research Unit at the University of Reading and Johnson Controls Incorporated includes information on outsourcing … visual inspection of responses would suggest a gradual trend away from outsourcing, but the statistical tests indicate a … to reflect a wider trend away from outsourcing. …

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Integrated maintenance monitoring of hospital buildings

Shohet, Igal; Lavy-Leibovich, Sarel; Bar-On, Dany - In: Construction Management and Economics 21 (2003) 2, pp. 219-228

sources of labour (outsourcing vs. in-house). The research focused on maintenance of hospital buildings as a model for multi … using in-house labour vs. the outsourcing of labour. The third, the maintenance efficiency indicator (MEI), is based on the … efficiency of usage of the resources (labour, outsourcing, materials and spare parts) in maintenance. The fourth indicator deals …

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Integrated maintenance management of hospital buildings: a case study

Lavy, Sarel; Shohet, Igal - In: Construction Management and Economics 22 (2004) 1, pp. 25-34

Over the course of the past three decades, facilities management has become the subject of an increasing number of research and development efforts. The main objective of the present research was to examine the efficiency of maintenance under alternative maintenance policies and different...

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Living up to the value agenda: the empirical realities of through-life value creation in construction

Leiringer, Roine; Green, Stuart; Raja, Jawwad - In: Construction Management and Economics 27 (2009) 3, pp. 271-285

consideration of broader trends of privatization and outsourcing within and across the construction industry's client base. The … outsourcing of asset management capabilities. However, such trends are by no means uniform or consistent. An in-depth case study …

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Enabling and measuring innovation in the construction industry

Gambatese, John; Hallowell, Matthew - In: Construction Management and Economics 29 (2011) 6, pp. 553-567

Innovation is vital to successful, long-term company performance in the construction industry. Understanding the innovation process, how innovation can be enhanced and how it can be measured are key steps to managing and enhancing innovation. The factors that affect innovation on a project were...

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Critical success factors for PPP/PFI projects in the UK construction industry

Li, Bing; Akintoye, A.; Edwards, P. J.; Hardcastle, C. - In: Construction Management and Economics 23 (2005) 5, pp. 459-471

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used in the United Kingdom's public facilities and services provision through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Despite some casualties, PPP/PFI projects have been undertaken successfully, but the reasons for success are not entirely clear....

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An efficient search procedure for the resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem with discounted cash flows

Chiu, Huan Neng; Tsai, Deng Maw - In: Construction Management and Economics 20 (2002) 1, pp. 55-66

The main purposes of this study are to incorporate both the project delay penalty and early completion bonus into the objective function of the resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem with discounted cash flows (RCMPSP-DCF) and to develop an efficient heuristic search scheduling...

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Measuring construction project participant satisfaction

Leung, Mei-Yung; Ng, S. Thomas; Cheung, Sai-On - In: Construction Management and Economics 22 (2004) 3, pp. 319-331

Construction projects involve numerous stakeholders, and their satisfaction could directly influence the performance of subsequent projects. Driven by a desire to improve project success, the critical satisfaction factors pertinent to the construction management process should be identified. In...

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The financial risks in build-operate-transfer projects

Xenidis, Yiannis; Angelides, Demos - In: Construction Management and Economics 23 (2005) 4, pp. 431-441

The build-operate-transfer (BOT) approach for developing infrastructure projects is a technique that allows fast realization of public works in cases of a shortage of public funds. This process is full of risks, due mainly to the complexity and extend of the disciplines, public agencies and...

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A macro approach to estimating correlated random variables in engineering production projects

Hudak, David; Maxwell, Mark - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 8, pp. 883-892

An important consideration in cost risk analysis is the amount of correlation between different cost elements. If correlation is ignored, both the probability and magnitude of costs overruns could be significantly underestimated. The two major difficulties in implementing correlation addressed...

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