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Engineering Construction and Architectural Management Volume 15 Issue 1

Subject Areas: Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited - Emerald Publishing
ISSN: 0969-9988
SJR: 63

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Using mobile computing for construction site information management

Yuan Chen; John M. Kamara

2008 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/09699980810842034

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for the use of mobile computing in the management of on‐site construction information and communication. Design/methodology/approach – The research strategy contains three steps: a pilot study for the first stage, a survey that...
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Evaluation and analysis of criteria and sub‐criteria of a construction excellence model

H.A. Bassioni; T.M. Hassan; A.D.F. Price

2008 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/09699980810842043

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and analyse the criteria and sub‐criteria of an excellence model for construction that would aid construction contractors in measuring and improving their business performance. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology of evaluation was based...
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New approaches to solving the skills shortages in the New Zealand construction industry

Yadeed B. Lobo; Suzanne Wilkinson

2008 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/09699980810842052

Purpose – In the light of international skills shortages at different levels of the construction industry, this research assesses solutions to skills shortages in the construction industry drawing on research from New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach – The way in which the research objectives...
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The selection of sharing ratios in target cost contracts

Ulrika Badenfelt

2008 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/09699980810842061

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a broader understanding of target cost arrangements by empirical study of the choice of sharing ratios from the perspective of both clients and contractors. Design/methodology/approach – Eight Swedish construction clients and eight contractors...
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Culture change through the use of appropriate pricing systems

Ammar Kaka; Chee Wong; Chris Fortune; David Langford

2008 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/09699980810842070

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how practitioners have not fully responded to calls for change in culture. Given that construction teams are motivated by several key factors including money, payment systems may play a major role in facilitating this change. Traditional pricing...
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Collaborative project information management in a semantic web environment

C.J. Anumba; J. Pan; R.R.A. Issa; I. Mutis

2008 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/09699980810842089

Purpose – The advent of web services and the semantic web have opened up opportunities for a new generation of interoperable systems on the web. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of semantics in design and construction, and how this has long been recognised and addressed to...

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