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Akintoye, A and Skitmore, M R (1994) Models of UK private sector quarterly construction demand. Construction Management and Economics, 12(01), 3-14.

Carrillo, P M (1994) Technology transfer: a survey of international construction companies. Construction Management and Economics, 12(01), 45-51.

Duff, A R, Robertson, I T, Phillips, R A and Cooper, M D (1994) Improving safety by the modification of behaviour. Construction Management and Economics, 12(01), 67-78.

Fortune, C and Skitmore, M R (1994) Quantification skills in the construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 12(01), 79-88.

Khalid, G (1994) Obsolescence in hedonic price estimation of the financial impact of commercial office buildings: the case of Kuala Lumpur. Construction Management and Economics, 12(01), 37-44.

Laufer, A, Tucker, R L, Shapira, A and Shenhar, A J (1994) The multiplicity concept in construction project planning. Construction Management and Economics, 12(01), 53-65.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: construction planning; scheduling
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446199400000007
  • Abstract:

    Why plan? Who should plan? What and when should one plan? These fundamental issues of construction planning raised by the authors 5 years ago, are revisited in this paper in the light of studies conducted recently within the construction industry. In the focus of this research program stood mature companies, advanced projects and competent and experienced practitioners of construction planning and management. The findings show that there is no one single answer to any of these basic questions and that in fact a state of multiplicity - of roles and users, plans and formats, timings and time horizons, planning parties and modes of preparation - prevail, calling upon the willing practitioner to resort systematically to situational analysis if effective planning is to be accomplished.

Ranasinghe, M (1994) Quantification and management of uncertainty in activity duration networks. Construction Management and Economics, 12(01), 15-29.

Tah, J H M, Thorpe, A and McCaffer, R (1994) A survey of indirect cost estimating in practice. Construction Management and Economics, 12(01), 31-6.