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Boussabaine, A H and Elhag, T M S (1999) Applying fuzzy techniques to cash flow analysis. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 745-55.

Brooker, P (1999) Survey of construction lawyers' attitudes and practicein the use of ADR in contractors' disputes. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 757-65.

Bubshait, A A, Farooq, G, Jannadi, M O and Assaf, S A (1999) Quality practices in design organizations. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 799-809.

Eldin, N N (1999) Impact of employee, management, and process issues on constructability implementation. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 711-20.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: constructability; project delivery time; schedule compression; schedule reduction; time to market; value engineering
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/014461999371051
  • Abstract:

    This paper reports the findings of a study that examined five projects in which implementation of constructability concepts was viewed as a schedule reduction tool. The study attempted to determine the benefits, success factors, and implementation barriers across the case studies. The data suggested that adopting constructability concepts has the potential for significantly reducing the project delivery time compared with the historical performance of the participating companies. Success factors, implementation barriers, and lessons learned were viewed as management, employee, and process-related issues. These issues were ranked further according to their apparent significance in the cases studied. When such a ranking is verified by additional studies, the efforts of present and future implementations will focus on the issues that yield the highest payoffs.

Fraser, C (1999) A non-results-based effectiveness index for construction site managers. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 789-98.

Hanna, A S, Russell, J S and Vandenberg, P J (1999) The impact of change orders on mechanical construction labour efficiency. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 721-30.

Leu, S-S and Yang, C-H (1999) A genetic-algorithm-based resource-constrained construction scheduling system. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 767-76.

Loosemore, M (1999) Responsibility, power and construction conflict. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 699-709.

Roy, R and Cochrane, S P (1999) Development of a customer focused strategy in speculative house building. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 777-87.

Yogeswaran, K and Kumaraswamy, M M (1999) To instruct or not? The engineer's dilemma. Construction Management and Economics, 17(06), 731-43.