Search Results - subject:"Building works"

Improving building safety in property maintenance

Chan, KH - In: Property Management 30 (2012) 5, pp. 465-476

Purpose – Property defects and building safety have been major concerns for many years in Hong Kong. The local government intends to launch a Mandatory Building Inspection Scheme (MBIS) for owners of aged buildings; and instigate necessary defect rectification to enhance building and public...

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Key considerations for delivering best value in the small building works portfolio of large client organizations

Griffith, Alan - In: Construction Management and Economics 25 (2007) 8, pp. 903-909

, refurbishment and small-scale new building works. Such activities form the category small building works, a sub-sector of the UK … management of small building works, in the context of an organization with a large property portfolio, is important to the … business. Studies into small building works conducted over the past 15 years have been synthesized and augmented to highlight …

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Library tangled with county issues

Fitzsimons, Eileen - In: The Bottom Line 14 (2001) 1

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Unauthorised structures in a high‐rise high‐density environment ‐ The case of Hong Kong

Lai, Lawrence W.C.; Ho, Daniel C.W. - In: Property Management 19 (2001) 2, pp. 112-123

Extending the ground works of Ho (1993), Baldwin (1994), Walters and Hastings (1998a, 1998b) on property management in Hong Kong, this short paper documents the context[1] of research on illegal structures, explains the incentive for building illegal structures on government land and private...

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Management of small building works

Griffith, A.; Headley, J. D. - In: Construction Management and Economics 16 (1998) 6, pp. 703-709

This paper focuses on the management dimension of small building works. The paper presents a subset of findings from a …

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Using a weighted score model as an aid to selecting procurement methods for small building works

Griffith, A.; Headley, J. D. - In: Construction Management and Economics 15 (1997) 4, pp. 341-348

This paper focuses on the selection of procurement methods for small building works. While a range of procurement … aid to selecting procurement methods for small building works. From this paper, client organizations should become more …

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