Managing geotechnical risk on US design-build transport projects

Risk Analysis for Design-Build Construction Projects: A Simplified Approach

Construction Projects are being implemented under different contract systems in the Midwest. Negotiated design-build has been a popular contract system in recent years. It provides various advantages through entailing the contractor to be responsible for the whole project. However, design-build turns out to be risky system for both owners and contractors unless the risks are identified, quantif...

Engineering Innovative Practice in Managing Design Projects

Most references to innovation relate to the development of new products. This paper does not address innovation in these terms, but as changes in practices an engineer creatively adopts during engineering design projects. The authors adopt Actor-Network Theory as a way to understand these change processes (translations). The authors design a perturbation index inspired in Earned Value managemen...

Scoring Design-Build Proposals for Military Construction Projects

The Role of Modelling and Simulation in Design-build Projects

The paper discusses the role of modelling and simulation techniques in large scale construction projects focusing on the opportunities and on the modelling challenges that are specific to this context of application. The paper argues that a methodology based on dynamic multi-process simulation models provides powerful decision support when assessing the performance implications of changes in th...

Managing Knowledge to Promote Sustainability in Australian Transport Infrastructure Projects

To deliver tangible sustainability outcomes, the infrastructure sector of the construction industry needs to build capacities for the creation, application and management of ever increasing knowledge. This paper intends to establish the importance and key issues of promoting sustainability through knowledge management (KM). It presents a new conceptual framework for managing sustainability know...