Engineering Construction and Architectural Management Volume 5 Issue 1

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Commercial viability of privately financed heating systems in Europe a case study

DUFFIELD, COLIN

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

This paper presents a detailed case study of how a European heating contractor analysed the commercial viability of privately financing a critical component of the construction of new apartment heating systems in return for ongoing maintenance contracts. The adaptation of some of the concepts of...

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Risk analysis and management of Private Finance Initiative projects

AKINTOYE, AKINTOLA; TAYLOR, CRAIG; FITZGERALD, EAMON

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021056

The Private Finance Initiative PFI is a recent development in the UK in which private sector organisations, design, build, finance and operate assets to deliver a service to public sector clients. The initiative is expected to bring the private sector's finance, management skills and expertise...

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Aspects of funding for BOO projects

SAUNDERS, ALASDAIR

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021057

This paper comments on the attitude of Banks to the HM Guidelines, for PFI as well as analysing the cost of finance obtained under the Guidelines and comparing it with finance from other sources. This analysis is extended, by way of example, to t he Dalmuir sewage treatment works project, as...

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GATT, GATS and the global construction industry

ABDULAZIZ, ABDULRASHID; CHWEE NGOH TAN, AMY

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021058

On 15 December 1993, the most ambitious trade liberalisation package in history was concluded, marking the end of multilateral trade negotiations under the aegis of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT. Among the landmark achievements of that round was the addressing of the services...

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The implications of the difference in the growth rates of the prices of building resources and outputs in Hong Kong

CHAU, K.W.

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021059

The prices of construction resources construction cost have been increasing faster than construction output prices construction price in Hong Kong since the mid1970s, giving rise to a longterm divergence between the two price trends. As the difference has existed for quite a long time, it cannot...

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The contribution of the client representative to the creation and maintenance of good project interteam relationships

WALKER, DEREK H.T.

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021060

Conclusions flowing from an investigation of the literature together with the results of two recent research studies suggest that the relationship quality between the client representative CR, the design team and the team undertaking construction management activities is a major factor governing...

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Analysis of the accuracy of standardaverage value curves using food retail building projects as case studies

EVANS, R.C.; KAKA, A.P.

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021061

Several cash flow forecasting models have been developed for use by the contractor at the tendering stage. The majority of these models have been based on the standard Scurve. The accuracy of these models depends on the accuracy of the standard Scurve used. Many researchers have attempted to...

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Worker motivation on selected construction sites in Bangkok, Thailand

OGUNLANA, STEPHEN O.; PIEN CHANG, WEI

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021062

The groundbreaking works of Maslow and Herzberg have been used by many researchers on construction worker motivation. These two classical theorists were used as the basis for a survey of needs, motivators and demotivators on highrise building construction sites in Bangkok, Thailand. The needs and...

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Implementing an integrative approach to project schedule compression

LAUFER, ALEXANDER; SHAPIRA, AVIAD; GOREN, ITZHAK

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021063

The need to provide immediate housing solutions for hundreds of thousands of people in the early 1990's faced the Israeli construction industry with an unprecedented challenge to multiply overnight its output and drastically cut construction time. It also created a unique opportunity to observe a...

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The Health and Safety Expert System HASES an expert system framework for building inspections

GOWRI, KRISHNAN; DEPANNI, SEBASTIANO

1998 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/eb021064

In order to ensure the health and safety of occupants, buildings must be inspected to check their compliance to current regulatory requirements prompted by occupancy changes, renovations and building code revisions. Recent inspections conducted by Public Works Canada have identified about 1700...

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