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Al-Tabtabai, H and Diekmann, J E (1992) Judgemental forecasting in construction projects. Construction Management and Economics, 10(01), 19-30.

Finch, E F (1992) Environmental assessment of construction projects. Construction Management and Economics, 10(01), 5-18.

Kapliński, O and Meszek, W (1992) Catastrophic and strategic aspects of building processes balancing. Construction Management and Economics, 10(01), 81-8.

Laufer, A (1992) A micro view of the project planning process. Construction Management and Economics, 10(01), 31-43.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: client; conflict; decision making; planning; project; uncertainty
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446199200000004
  • Abstract:

    The objective was to make a descriptive study of the decision making process in the early stages of project planning as it actually takes place. Data were gathered from 27 managers affiliated with large owners in the USA. Interviewees were questioned about the degree of involvement of client, project manager, project manager’s team, and design engineers, in the technical definition, organization and systems, and schedule of the project - once at the conceptual planning stage and again at the engineering design stage. Involvement was assessed also in terms of intensity, relative efforts invested by the parties in the phases of the decision making process, and by type of contract. Other variables studied included extent of disagreement among the parties, degree of interruption during the planning process and sources of uncertainty hindering the decision making process.

Ranasinghe, M and Russell, A D (1992) Analytical approach for economic risk quantification of large engineering projects: validation. Construction Management and Economics, 10(01), 45-68.

Yizhe, T and Youjie, L (1992) Unbalanced bidding on contracts with variation trends in client-provided quantities. Construction Management and Economics, 10(01), 69-80.