The private finance initiative (PFI) is a means of using private finance and skills to deliver capital investment projects traditionally provided by the public sector. Traditionally, public sector bodies have been responsible for the procurement, operation and regulation of capital assets. In...

The UK construction industry has recently recognised the importance of client influence in driving the industry's performance improvement agenda as embodied within the Rethinking Construction report (Egan, 1998). Notably, the industry's Strategic Forum (2002) has recently advocated client led...

The idea of sustainable development was first brought to widespread attention as a global issue; however, it is increasingly being applied at more local levels down to that of individual companies. This raises the potential danger that sustainable development will come to be predominantly...

Innovative newly qualified graduates need to proof themselves to the worldthrough their God-given talents and ideas and can only really put their nameon the map by starting their own company. Graduates being compelled to joina company to attain, over a number of years, the necessary capital...

The thesis entitled This is Africa giving form to the informal arose from a concern with the growing levels of poverty and unemployment in South Africa and the recognition that small scale,self-generated economic activity provides an important means of survival for the very poor. It acknowledges...

Decisions concerning design are increasingly being made on economic grounds. This paper explores links between Economics and design. It examines the implications for evaluating design using the micro-macro economics distinction that exists in economics. The paper suggests the need for adopting...

Sustainability means capable of being continued. Sustainable transport means finding ways ofmeeting transportation needs that are environmentally sound, socially equitable, andeconomically viable in the long term.To be economically sustainable, transport must be cost-effective and continuously...

Two opposing views prevail regarding how information infrastructures develop over time. A top-down view asserts that organisations define the level of integration of data and standardisation of processes required for their optimal operation, and use management and goverance methodologies to...

This paper discusses and develops several findings out of a small action research project conducted in the context of a first year design studio. The basis for the project arose out of feedback that design critique is ambiguous, subjective and largely unqualified from the student point of view....