Construction projects are complex and risky. According to the literature, even profitable construction companies can fail due to poor cash flow. In order to survive in this rapidly changing environment, effective cash flow management is essential. Many unforeseen factors affect a construction project’s cash flow. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to examine the impact of ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that effect actual construction time in the context of commercial projects in Chennai, India. One of the factors of particular interest was the extent of sub-contracting in construction projects. The data for the study was obtained from a few leading design and construction management companies in Chennai, India. The sample size consisted of ...

Environmental pollution is considered to be one of the main concerns in the construction industry. Environmental pollution has become a major challenge to construction projects due to the huge amount of pollution caused by construction projects. There are different types of environmental impact indicators, such as the greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint, eutrophication potential (EP), acidification ...

In order to enhance experience management for engineers participating in construction projects, it is helpful to provide engineers the experience exchanging and sharing platform to understand important issues form the previous executed projects during the construction. The proposed experience maps help engineers better to illustrate what they have previous earned experience to “real-life” probl...

engineering – procurement and construction (epc) contract is one of the current contracts in the today world. when governmental sector trends to use the expertise of domestic or foreign private in engineering and construction of infrastructural projects, finds epc contract as a suitable legal frame. in this article, we have tried to discuss about the most important legal aspects of this kind of...

The literature states that project duration is affected by various scope factors. Using 168 building projects carried out in Spain, this paper uses the multiple regression analysis to develop a forecast model that allows estimating project duration of new builds. The proposed model uses project type, gross floor area (GFA), the cost/GFA relationship and number of floors as predictor variables. ...

This paper provides surveyors with a practical and concise explanation of the management concepts and techniques needed to motivate today’s survey employees in construction projects. It reviews key motivation concepts, and describes how to apply the theory into practice in accordance with the ISO 9001:2000 standard.

Localization of randomly distributed wireless sensor nodes is a significant and fundamental problem in a broad range of emerging civil engineering applications.

The right management of information is crucial in construction projects and has been studied by many researchers. This paper begins by defining and discussing some information management concepts. In particular, it proposes a reflection about the pull-push model for transferring information and links the resulting ideas to some generic issues of information management, namely information overlo...