Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one of the best strategies that companies used in minimising negative societal and environmental impacts, enhancing economic development improving social progress concurrently. However, there are many factors discouraging construction to implement or establish a CSR plan. Furthermore, few empirical studies relation construction, majority research on impl...

On the border of two phases a building life cycle (LC), programming phase (conception and design) execution phase, contractor is selected. A particularly appropriate method selecting for construction market tendering system. It usually based on quality price criteria. The latter may involve (namely, direct costs connected with works realization as well mark-ups, mainly overhead profit) or cost ...

Operations in construction and real estate sector are increasingly networked. Practically this appears as a very high share of subcontracting, and recently the outsourcing as a lasting trend has even strengthened this phenomenon. In a major construction project the project manager and the company (s)he is representing can be connected to tens or even several hundred different partners who each ...

Despite the fact that women possess the required knowledge, skills, competencies, training and experiences to perform effectively and efficiently in construction industry, they experience entry and career advancement barriers. This research examines the effects of glass ceiling syndrome on women career advancement in construction industry. Data were obtained through structured questionnaire dis...

Industrialized production of building components, or entire houses, reduces activities at the construction site to the assembly of parts and has the potential to increase productivity and reduce the design effort invested in every project. However, in order to realize all of the potential efficiency gains that use of predefined components could deliver effective, interoperable information manag...