Public procurement is prone to corruption, which in the global construction market alone accounts for an estimated US$340 billion per year. There is a growing need for procurement systems to be able to fight corruption and improve the effectiveness, efficiency, fairness and transparency of...

There are just two Indian construction companies in the ENR 'Top 225 Global Contractors 2006' list and Indian construction companies have only a 0.05% market share of the $3-4 trillion global construction business. International construction experience in India is limited, but enormous scope for...

Owners of bridges all over the world are facing the task of maintaining them within limited resources. The allocation of resources among the competing deteriorating bridges is a difficult task. Bridge health indices are used for deciding the priority of bridges for maintenance, and for the...

Resources—especially funds allotted—for the maintenance of bridges, are generally scanty. Thus, it becomes difficult to select bridges for maintenance from among several competing bridges to ensure their safety and serviceability to the desired level. A bridge health index is considered a...

Despite extensive efforts, corruption in public procurement has reached epidemic proportions and has become one of the major challenges for management. Because corrupt practices mostly occur under wraps, the task of combating corruption becomes even more difficult. In the course of a review of...

Achieving success in public construction projects is difficult because it requires economy, efficiency, quality, fairness and transparency. Such projects are taken up on the requisition of owners/clients and almost always involve multiple entities and are also accountable to external financial...

Approximately 42% of Indian government-funded construction projects are facing time overruns. With a number of challenging projects around the corner, there is a definite need to overcome these delays. In an earlier study conducted by one of the authors, 55 project performance attributes were...

Construction projects are increasingly multidisciplinary and the role of a project coordinator has become critical for success. A clear differentiation is drawn between the roles of a project manager and a project coordinator, and the attributes required in a successful project coordinator are...

The efforts of contractors, consultants and owners need to be appropriately coordinated in large civil engineering projects, whose success can be defined in terms of compliance to schedule, economy in cost, adherence to quality, and non-occurrence of disputes. Based on the hypothesis that...