Construction Economics and Building  

Esteban Lafuente, Felipe Strassburger, Yancy Vaillant, Jordi Vilajosana

The objective of this study is to determine the effect of relevant variables related to strategic sources of financial resources—in our case, suppliers’ trade credit and use of financial institutions—over performance among Spanish construction firms. To t... see more

Manav Mahan Singh, Anil Sawhney, Vaishnavi Sharma

Advancements in the computing realm have assisted the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry to progress significantly by automating several design tasks and activities. Building Information Modelling (BIM) authoring tools have played ... see more

Bee Lan Oo

Clients engage consultant quantity surveyors or cost engineers to perform project cost estimates before calling for tender submissions. This experimental study examines the impact of releasing the clients’ pre-tender cost estimates prior to bidding on stu... see more

Serdar Durdyev, Sherif Mohamed, Meng Leang Lay, Syuhaida Ismail

Although proper safety management in construction is of utmost importance; anecdotal evidence suggests that safety is not adequately considered in many developing countries. This paper considers the key variables affecting construction safety performance... see more

Che Maznah Binti Mat Isa, Hamidah Binti Mohd Saman, Christopher Nigel Preece

The paper aims to provide a holistic approach to address how construction firms make decisions covering all three domains (location, timing and mode) across country, market, firm and project factors within the Ownership, Locational and Internalisation plu... see more