This paper examines the relative performance of three different systems of forecasting movements in macro building prices. The three systems analysed are (1) the Building Cost Information Service system, (2) the Davis, Langdon & Everest system, and (3) Akintoye and Skitmore's reduced-form...

With perpetual strains on resources, road agencies need to develop network-level decision-making frameworks to ensure optimum resource allocation. This is especially true for intelligent transport systems (ITS), and in particular, variable message signs (VMS), a key component of incident...

The financial management of the construction procurement process is dependent upon on the performance of the managers involved. This paper describes an analysis of pre-tender building price forecasts (estimates) made by a Hong Kong consulting organisation for a series of 89 building projects...

With notably few exceptions, bidding models contain probability distributions with parameters that are assumed to be fixed, or stationary, over time. Some methods of method of testing the tenability of this assumption are examined and applied to eight datasets. Of particular interest is the...

This paper develops a Cournot duopoly in which a domestic firm competes with a technologically more advanced foreign-owned firm on the home market.

The pre-conditions of the increase of efficiency of management of enterprises’ technical and economic development have been defined. The mechanism of evolution of the technological setups has been presented. The analysis of the dynamics of the technological setups is being considered as the...

The article is devoted the questions of providing of effective work of the ground economy through using of new methods and technologies of implementation of walkovers for the change of structure of turnover of goodsand passenger is a turn in Ukraine

Увеличение количества предприятий, которые осуществляют внешнеэкономическую деятельность и наличие социальных проблем, требующих немедленного решения,...