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Commercial viability of privately financed heating systems in Europe — a case study
COLIN DUFFIELDThis paper presents a detailed case study of how a European heating contractor analysed the commercial viability of privately financing a critical component of the construction of…
Risk analysis and management of Private Finance Initiative projects
AKINTOLA AKINTOYE, CRAIG TAYLOR, EAMON FITZGERALDThe Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is a recent development in the UK in which private sector organisations, design, build, finance and operate assets to deliver a service to…
Aspects of funding for BOO projects
ALASDAIR SAUNDERSThis paper comments on the attitude of Banks to the HM Guidelines, for PFI as well as analysing the cost of finance obtained under the Guidelines and comparing it with finance…
GATT, GATS and the global construction industry
ABDUL‐RASHID ABDUL‐AZIZ, AMY CHWEE NGOH TANOn 15 December 1993, the most ambitious trade liberalisation package in history was concluded, marking the end of multilateral trade negotiations under the aegis of the General…
The implications of the difference in the growth rates of the prices of building resources and outputs in Hong Kong
K.W. CHAUThe prices of construction resources (construction cost) have been increasing faster than construction output prices (construction price) in Hong Kong since the mid‐1970s, giving…
The contribution of the client representative to the creation and maintenance of good project inter‐team relationships
DEREK H.T. WALKERConclusions flowing from an investigation of the literature together with the results of two recent research studies suggest that the relationship quality between the client…
Analysis of the accuracy of standard/average value curves using food retail building projects as case studies
R.C. EVANS, A.P. KAKASeveral cash flow forecasting models have been developed for use by the contractor at the tendering stage. The majority of these models have been based on the standard S‐curve…
Worker motivation on selected construction sites in Bangkok, Thailand
STEPHEN O. OGUNLANA, WEI PIEN CHANGThe groundbreaking works of Maslow and Herzberg have been used by many researchers on construction worker motivation. These two classical theorists were used as the basis for a…
Implementing an integrative approach to project schedule compression
ALEXANDER LAUFER, AVIAD SHAPIRA, ITZHAK GORENThe need to provide immediate housing solutions for hundreds of thousands of people in the early 1990's faced the Israeli construction industry with an unprecedented challenge: to…
The Health and Safety Expert System (HASES): an expert system framework for building inspections
KRISHNAN GOWRI, SEBASTIANO DEPANNIIn order to ensure the health and safety of occupants, buildings must be inspected to check their compliance to current regulatory requirements prompted by occupancy changes…
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