Purpose: The main objective of this study is to identify the various origin and causes variation orders. area limited Tribhuwan University premises, Kathmandu. result can be further used analyze impacts those also develop prevention measures which beneficial in upcoming projects. Design/Methodology/Approach: Fifty respondents including client, consultant, contractor their representatives having...

Estimating of the overhead costs of building construction projects is an important task in the management of these projects. The quality of construction management depends heavily on their accurate cost estimation. Construction costs prediction is a very difficult and sophisticated task especially when using manual calculation methods. This paper uses Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach to...

Marketplaces worldwide have become very competitive in most sectors, and companies have realised that a key area to ensure commercial success is good product quality. Several methods to help in this regard have emerged under the total quality management (TQM) umbrella. However, to date, associated research in the construction sector has received little attention by comparison to say, manufactur...

Highway construction projects are one of the most important construction projects in the world. Therefore predicting the time of these kinds of projects is important. Basically highway projects are including few activities which are repeating along the horizontal direction. One of the best methods for scheduling these types of projects is linear scheduling method. The repetitive nature of the h...