Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 6 Issue 3

Delivering sustainable communities: a case study in China

Bo Xia, Tian Wu, Martin Skitmore, Qing Chen, Mei Li, Jian Zuo

China’s accelerated urbanisation leads directly to pressure on the urban environment. The purpose of this paper is to identify best practices involved in a real sustainable…

A systems approach to assessing organisational viability in project based organisations

Bankole Awuzie, Peter McDermott

Extant literature highlights the increasing inability of project-based organisations (PBOs) to meet infrastructure client’s expectations, particularly as it concerns the delivery…

Improving relationships in project teams in Malaysia

Florence Y.Y. Ling, Wei Wey Khoo

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate relational practices that can improve construction project outcomes in Malaysia.

Building management system for sustainable built environment in Sri Lanka

W.H.C.D Kumara, K.G.A.S. Waidyasekara, R.P.N.P. Weerasinghe

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of building management system (BMS) towards a sustainable built environment.

Change management framework to enable sustainable outsourcing of facilities management services

Pournima Sridarran, Nirodha Gayani Fernando

In this present globalised era, outsourcing has become a very popular and much sought after procurement strategy for facilities management (FM). Generally, a sustainable…

Fault tree analysis method for deterioration of timber bridges using an Australian case study

Weena Lokuge, Nirdosha Gamage, Sujeeva Setunge

Deterioration of timber bridges can often be related to a number of deficiencies in the bridge elements, connectors and/or as a result of been in aggressive environments which…

Task-based defect management: anatomical classification

Abdullah Almusharraf, Andrew Whyte

Studies on the construction defects and quality deviations have been commissioned and published in many countries, showing the global status of the issues related with…

Diving deeper and drilling further

Mohan Kumaraswamy