7 articles in this issue
Martin Loosemore
Vol 4 No 2 (2004): AJCEB
R.J Fuller
Despite their proven track record in the cold climate countries of northern Europe, there are no reports in the research literature of experiences using advanced fabric energy storage (FES) systems in countries where cooling rather than heating is the mai... see more
Therese Daddow, Martin Skitmore
Despite its obvious theoretical benefits, there has been some reservations regarding the practical implementation of Value Management (VM) for construction projects. In particular, these concerns the extra time and costs involved in conducting VM in relat... see more
Patrick Zou
Knowledge management (KM) could be described as a management system that supports the creation, sharing and retrieving of valued information, expertise and insight within and across communities of people and related organizations using information and com... see more
Eric Hu, Linda Zou, Craig Langston
Multi-criteria decisions usually require measurement or evaluation of performance in different units and their mix by application of weighting factors. This approach lads to potential manipulation of the results as a direct consequence of the applied weig... see more
James Wong, Albert Chan, Y.H Chiang
Forecasting manpower requirements has been useful for economic planners, policy makers and training providers in order to avoid the imbalance of skills in the labour market. Although reviews of the manpower planning models have been conducted previously, ... see more
Gerry Postmus
A Life-cost approach to building evaluation by Craig Langston Reviewed by by Gerry Postmus