Compared with many other sectors, a construction project is a subject to more risks due to its specific characteristics such as long period, complicated processes, abominable environment, financial intensity and dynamic organization structure. Managing risks is recognized as a very important management process in order to assure its successful delivery. It aims at identifying sources of risk an...

This paper examines project management research from the perspective of its relationship to allied disciplines in the management field and provides a view of the progress of project management as a research-based academic discipline. This study which is partially funded by the Project Management Institute specifically investigates project management research in allied disciplines from 18 top ma...

the research on project scheduling has widely expanded over the last few decades. the vast majority of these research efforts focus on exact and suboptimal procedures for constructing a workable schedule, assuming complete information and a static deterministic problem environment. project activities are scheduled subject to both technological precedence constraints and resource constraints, mo...

In the United States, there is currently significant growth in the construction of healthcare facilities. This healthcare construction boom is driven by multiple factors including population shifts within the U.S.; aging facilities which no longer meet modern operational practices and efficiencies; and significant shifts in building code requirements. The last major healthcare construction boom...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computerbased tool used extensively to solve various engineering problems related to spatial data. In spite of growing popularity of GIS, its complete potential to construction industry has not been realized. In this paper, the summary of up-to-date work on spatial applications of GIS technologies in construction industry is presented. GIS technologies h...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Artificial intelligence Optimization Project management Cost estimation Bid award amount Regression analysis Artificial neural network Case-based reasoning Genetic algorithm Bridges are essential components of transportation systems. The bidding process is the main determinant of whether a contractor is commissioned to complete a construction project. Therefore, ...

Construction supply-chain management offers new approaches to reduce the cost of and increase the reliability and speed of facility construction. Supply-chain management takes a systems view of the production activities of autonomous production units (subcontractors and suppliers in construction) and seeks global optimization of these activities. Applications of supply-chain management techniqu...

The recent Egan report on the UK construction industry has concluded that “integrated construction process” holds the key to further improvement in efficiency and productivity. In the last decade or so, considerable R&D efforts have been devoted to the integration issues in numerous research initiatives. A range of technologies of different levels of maturity have emerged from these studies, in...