Critical infrastructure play an important role in supporting industries and communities and also responding against natural disasters to reduce their impacts (i.e., routes and bridges for evacuation and public buildings for sheltering). Due to global warming, there is an increase in the...

Construction organizations carry out projects in areas such as residential and commercial building, industrial plants, healthcare and education. Companies bid on projects and expect to obtain a profit that is the difference between the revenues they obtain from the owners of the projects and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the severity of social and economic impact of floods on the communities and industries with respect to their reliance on the flood impacted critical infrastructure. This paper illustrates a severity assessment tool to determine the reduced...

Cash flow management is one of the most important determinants of the success of construction project management. Overdraft, retainage, financing, payment and billing policies constitute the most significant financial issues that contractors must plan, control and manage for the successful...

The complexity trend of construction projects is increasing, not only technologically but on several other fronts, such as the institutional diversity of the actors and the coupling of their interactions. As a result of this increase in complexity, projects frequently face the dynamics...