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Improving building services coordination at the pre‐installation stage
Sammy K.M. Wan, Mohan M. KumaraswamyCoordinating interdependencies between concurrent activities is a special challenge in managing increasingly complex building services projects. Effective coordination at the…
Client learning for successful architect‐client relationships
Jessica Siva, Kerry LondonThis paper seeks to explain how clients deal effectively with challenges on private single dwelling projects by achieving learning.
Factors affecting contractor's business failure: contractors' perspective
Ibrahim MahamidThe main objective of this paper is to identify the factors that have the potential to cause a contractor's business failure in the West Bank in Palestine and to determine their…
Trust and the Project Management Body of Knowledge
Graham Brewer, Scott StrahornThis paper aims to identify the extent to which dimensions of trust are reflected in the functional description of the role of a project manager as outlined in the Project…
Is incentivisation significant in ensuring successful partnered projects?
Deborah Hughes, Trefor Williams, Zhaomin RenThis research aimed to test the hypothesis “The use of incentivisation with a gain/pain share of about 15 per cent is a precursor to the achievement of successful infrastructure…
Using stochastic frontier regression to estimate the construction cost inefficiency of prevailing wage laws
Kevin Duncan, Peter Philips, Mark PrusThe aim of this paper is to use stochastic frontier regression to measure the effect of the introduction and expansion of prevailing wage requirements on the cost efficiency of…
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