Almost every paper I have ever read on infrastructure finance focuses on the achievement of what market practitioners believe is the Holy Grail of infrastructure finance. As PwC (2013) has stated in a recent publication, ‘[a] logical infrastructure project debt market would use short-term bank debt markets e.g. construction finance, with refinancing into the long-term institutional markets as s...

How to boost the economy and achieve more sustainable development with enhanced quality, efficiency, fairness by leveraging digital technology in post-COVID-19 era has been an important agenda faced many countries. As China’s new infrastructure initiative potential open a pathway for economic resilience, its policy characteristics orientation have attracted attention makers researchers. Taking ...

Shield tunneling construction of metro infrastructure will continuously disturb the soils. The ground surface will be subjected to uplift or subsidence due to the deep excavation and the extrusion and consolidation of the soils. Implementation of the simultaneous monitoring with the shield tunnel construction will provide an effective reference in controlling the shield driving, while how to de...

IT2000 is a strategic national information technology (IT) policy introduced by the Singaporean government in 1992. The Construction and Real Estate Network (CORENET) is one of such several sectoral applications of IT, expected to be implemented in the construction industry. IT has special significance for Singaporean economic development. Planning practices for the national IT policy in each h...