Construction Economics and Building  

Vol 8 No 2 (2008): AJCEB

Jan Sundqvist

In the building sector, value for thecustomer, is often regarded as being valuefor money and this, in turn, is achieved bymeans of competitive tendering. However,there are companies that also focus oninnovation as a competitive parameter intheir contribut... see more

Thomas Ng, Ekambaram Palaneeswaran, Mohan Kumaraswamy

ISO9000-based Quality Management Systems(QMSs) have been widely applied by manycontractors with a hope to improve the productquality and hence achieve the desiredobjective of client satisfaction. However,setting up and implementing an ISO9000-based QMS is... see more

Gabriel Nani, Peter Edwards, Theophilus Adjei-Kumi, Edward Badu, Peter Amoah

This paper reports a study that identified andcategorised the modifications to the 5thEdition of the British Standard Method ofMeasurement (SMM5) of building works inGhana. Typical modifications involved ‘costinsignificant items’, ‘minor labour items’,‘cu... see more

Winston Shakantu, Mundia Muya, John Tookey, Paul Bown

The efficiency of any transport operation isdependent on the degree to which vehiclecapacity is utilised on the forward and returntrips. Efficiency requirements create thelogistical challenges of finding backloads forreturning vehicles. In the absence ofb... see more

Ingeborg Wasif, Per-Erik Josephson, Alexander Styhre

New materials, use of sophisticatedtechnologies and increased customerdemands, in combination with growingcompetition among construction companies,have led to a high degree of specialization. Forsuccessful integration of the differentprofessional speciali... see more