Collaboration is acknowledged as a key to continued growth in the Australian construction industry. Government, as a … competitiveness of the industry. The paper draws upon data collected for the Construction 2020 study and aims to demonstrate that …

The building and construction sector is one of the five largest contributors to the Australian economy and is a key … within the building and construction sector. It traces the emergence of the Construction Innovation Project in Australia as a … hybrid institutional arrangement moulding public, private and academic stakeholders of the building and construction industry …

average construction costs for two building types in two groups of EU countries, one using the euro, the other using their … the coefficient of variation. The results show little evidence of price convergence for non-residential construction for …. The results raise the question of why construction prices in the EU appear to be resistant to convergence even in the …

construction industry, especially in projects implemented in the developing world. Planning techniques used in developing countries … to major construction projects by practitioners with different levels of expertise. This tool incorporates learning from …

revenues. P3 broaden the private sector?s participation beyond the design and construction phases to include the assumption of … construction and the type of risk involved within it. The PEST framework illustrates the distribution of risk by project types …, phases of construction and risk dependencies. It gives greater ability to monitor and control common type of identified and …

Neo-classical microeconomic theory has been suggested to offer (1) an appropriate analytical tool for construction … price determination while, at the same time, (2) full-cost pricing is most commonly accepted pricing policy of construction …

Typical measures of goodness of construction price forecasts are the mean and standard deviation, coefficient of … explores the use of a postal questionnaire survey to elicit construction industry client disutilities. The results of the first … asymmetric and Schools and Industrial being less asymmetric. The work to date indicates that, for construction price forecasting …

Purpose: To provide recommendations for construction clients who design and implement financial incentive mechanisms …, clients are increasingly using FIM in their construction contracts. Despite the rising use of financial incentives, there is a … lack of comprehensive construction-specific knowledge available to help clients maximize outcomes. The study addresses this …

Construction industry observers tout the use of financial incentives as promoters of motivation and commitment on … construction projects? The reasons that construction project participants are motivated to pursue voluntary incentive goals are … equitable contract conditions in promoting the effectiveness of financial incentives. In the context of a construction project …