Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 12 Issue 1

Models for predicting quality of building projects

Florence Yean Yng Ling

The objectives of this paper are to: find out whether design‐bid‐build (DBB) or design‐build (DB) procurement method gives better quality building; identify variables that…

Factors affecting ICT diffusion: A case study of three large Australian construction contractors

Vachara Peansupap, Derek Walker

To address the critical issue of how best to adopt and diffuse information and communication technology (ICT) into organisations.

Bidding ratios to predict highway project costs

Trefor P. Williams

Ratios were constructed using bidding data for highway construction projects in Texas to study whether there are useful patterns in project bids that are indicators of the project…

Examining architects' performance in Nigerian private and public sectors building projects

Lukumon O. Oyedele, Kwok W. Tham

The aim of this paper is to examine and compare the performance of architects with respect to clients' rating of importance over a set of performance criteria in Nigerian public…

Analysis of factors that drive brief development in construction

Ayman A.E. Othman, Tarek M. Hassan, Christine L. Pasquire

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the factors that drive changes to the construction project brief and the background to those factors. The founding argument, that…

Taking the pulse of UK construction project managers' health: Influence of job demands, job control and social support on psychological wellbeing

Peter E.D. Love, David J. Edwards

In this paper the predictive capabilities of the full job strain model (JSM) for construction project managers is examined. The principal aim of the work is to determine whether…

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Editorial

Ron McCaffer