(Quality Management in Construction Companies)

IMPROVING QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION IN INDONESIAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES By

Performance Management Method for Construction Companies

Many companies have managed their business performance in order to achieve their enterprise purpose. Performance management which applied concept of BSC (Balanced Scorecard) is widely used all over the world. In the construction industry, BSC-based performance management is currently introduced with needs of balanced performance evaluation. However, most companies actually have intermediate lev...

Quality management evolution in service companies

Purpose: This study investigates how a quality profile can evolve over time and how different interventions can develop and change an existing quality profile. Methodology/approach: Data was collected over a five-year period, including a literature review, interviews, a document study and observations to capture the quality profile and associated interventions. The study was carried out in a se...

Knowledge management perceptions in construction and design companies

Knowledge management (KM) has been studied extensively in recent years. Some consider knowledge to be the most strategically important resource for any company, but the fragmented, project-based and task-oriented nature of construction work makes it more difficult to implement KM in this sector. This paper presents a survey of perceptions of KM implementation in the Spanish construction sector ...

Risk Management in Construction Projects: Are Small Companies Prepared?

Risk management has always impacts in one or more project targets [1,2]. Although many projects are similar, each one is unique and has always specific risks associated with to. In fact, for a company to be successful, it must accomplish a proactive and consistent approach to risk management, during the project life-cycle, to be effective at all organizational levels [1]. Economic downturn expe...