To maximize project value, managers of construction projects must recognize, plan for and strategically manage uncertainty. Current construction planning, estimating, and management practices regarding uncertainty can undervalue projects by failing to exploit opportunities to increase project...

The prevalence of client dissatisfaction in the South African building industry is a consequence of non-achievement of set project objectives due to identifiable constraints. The paper presents the results of investigations into the nature, magnitudes and frequencies of occurrence of these...

The construction industry is a major user of formal project risk management practices, yet risk is often dealt with inadequately, which is a contributory factor to poor performance. Conceptual developments propose a holistic view of risk incorporating threats and opportunities and the management...

Stakeholders are a major source of uncertainty in projects. This uncertainty encompasses who relevant stakeholders are, how they could influence a project, and what their motives are in so far as their actions affect project activity. A generic project uncertainty management process framework is...

В статье рассматриваются возможности использования механизма нечеткой логики при оценке рисков, возникающих при реализации инновационных проектов, в...

В статье рассматриваются теоретические аспекты и практические вопросы управления проектами. Сравнивается управление проектами и проектно-ориентированное...

В статье рассматривается классификация инвестиционных проектов с позиции обеспеченности их исходными ресурсами, что особенно актуально на прединвестиционной...

Innovation is vital to successful, long-term company performance in the construction industry. Understanding the innovation process, how innovation can be enhanced and how it can be measured are key steps to managing and enhancing innovation. The factors that affect innovation on a project were...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used in the United Kingdom's public facilities and services provision through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Despite some casualties, PPP/PFI projects have been undertaken successfully, but the reasons for success are not entirely clear....

The main purposes of this study are to incorporate both the project delay penalty and early completion bonus into the objective function of the resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem with discounted cash flows (RCMPSP-DCF) and to develop an efficient heuristic search scheduling...