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Since the mid-Nineties and until 2005 the italian construction sector experienced an exceptional expansive cycle, the most intense in the last four decades. Construction was allowed to boom by a mix of factors (demographic, financial, increase in public works expenditure) and was driven by new...
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In spite of the proliferation of the activity, construction management is not a much studied or systematized subject. There are still only pockets of excellence in a sea of seat-of-the-pant and ad-hoc working. Most second level construction firms do not have systematic recording, documenting,...
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In this study the relation between the economic growth and the construction industry has been tackled. While the growth … industry’s growth in the economic fluctuation periods, in the aftermath of a recession, is more than the GDP. These two … proposals are tested by the quarterly data of 2000:01-2012:03 for Turkey. Additionally the relation between the economic growth …
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This article posits that there is no a priori reason that industrial upgrading and market expansion leads to greater social protections or better regulation. I ask three questions and attempt a conceptual framework for institutions and their broader spatial evolution. A firm’s regional risk...
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This paper is devoted to the study of project and entrepreneurial approach in relation to the specifics of the building complex, when in the process of diversification of the construction industry are transformed into multi-complex conglomerates, structural units which are interconnected,...
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The paper presents conclusions from a technical benchmarking study, performed in order to analyze the performance of the provisions concerning seismic design of reinforced concrete frame structures, as specified by the Romanian seismic code (P100-1/2006). The Romanian code is analyzed with...
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This article analyzes the approaches to the definition of the competitive advantages of business. Based on a review of the resource, technological, institutional, organizational and technological approaches, the expediency of the organizational and technological approach to solving the problem...
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An article about the problems and prospects of the formation of a regional information management system for the commercialization of energy-efficient and innovative technologies in construction. The author presents the created project "Regional Register of innovative technologies in the...
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The economic and social importance of housing markets justifies, more than ever, rigorous analyses that show clearly … economic impact of the construction sector on the Spanish economy. By means of an input-ouput model, the paper provides as well … an estimate of the economic consequences of a probable medium-term stagnation of the housing subsector in Spain. …
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The construction sector, whether privately or publically financed, is characterized by potentially large rents and government intervention. Not surprisingly then, both case-study and survey evidence has been provided highlighting the problem of corruption in this sector. In this article, we test...
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