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Engineering Construction and Architectural Management Volume 20 Issue 4

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

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2nd generation concrete construction: carbon footprint accounting

Frank Collins

2013 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/ECAM-09-2010-0072

Purpose – Construction contractors and facility managers are being challenged to minimize the carbon footprint. Life cycle carbon‐equivalent (CO 2 ‐e) accounting, whereby the potential emissions of greenhouse gases due to energy expenditure during construction and subsequent occupation of built...
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Investigation of drivers and modes of differentiation in Turkish construction industry

Cenk Budayan; Irem Dikmen; M. Talat Birgonul

2013 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/ECAM-09-2011-0083

Purpose – The positive effect of differentiation strategy on achieving competitive advantage among construction companies is widely acknowledged in the literature. However, there exists only a limited number of studies in the construction management literature that investigate the drivers and...
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The how and why of plant‐related fatalities in the Australian construction industry

Helen Lingard; Tracy Cooke; Ehsan Gharaie

2013 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/ECAM-09-2011-0085

Purpose – Drawing on the findings of coronial investigations, this research aimed to investigate the circumstances and causes of fatal incidents involving plant in the Australian construction industry. The analysis sought to provide greater insight into how and why fatal incidents occur and to...
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Prequalification of Egyptian construction contractors using fuzzy‐AHP models

Ossama Hosny; Khaled Nassar; Yasser Esmail

2013 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/ECAM-09-2011-0088

Purpose – Contractor prequalification is a typical multiple criteria decision‐making problem that includes both quantitative and qualitative criteria. The conditions surrounding the prequalification decision are often imprecise, subjective and uncertain; assessments are consequently made using...
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Fine‐tuning the value and cost of capital of risky PPP infrastructure projects

Andreas Wibowo; Hans Wilhelm Alfen

2013 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/ECAM-11-2011-0097

Purpose – The present paper aims to introduce a new methodology taking risk behavior of decision maker into account to fine‐tune the value of a risky public‐private‐partnership (PPP) project and the corresponding cost of capital based on the target rate of return set by the project sponsor and...
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Users’ satisfaction survey on building maintenance in public housing

Anthony W.Y. Lai; W.M. Lai

2013 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management

doi:10.1108/ECAM-06-2011-0057

Purpose – A building maintenance scheme introduced by the Hong Kong Housing Authority in January 2006 employed contractors and public housing owner's frontline representatives to provide inspection in the public rental housing tenants’ units and arrange corresponding repair works. This study aims...

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