Facilities management is a new discipline, an exciting profession that embraces many essential areas of the built environment. The last two decades have witnessed a significant growth in the profession to the extent that there is the need to be clear on its roles both in the industry and organisation. This study looks at the role of facilities management in the procurement of a facility. It tri...

This paper presents a study conducted in collaboration with large Canadian engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) firm to identify areas of improvement in the current process of progress reporting and forecasting project status at different targeted future dates. The study focused mainly on trending and time/Cost control of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) pr...

Project sponsorship is assumed to be critical to the success of information systems development and implementation. However, there is limited research on the effect of vendor-based sponsorship on the management of information technology (IT) projects. This paper contributes to that emerging body of evidence. Drawing on literature on psychological contract, management control and project sponsor...

Construction planners on every project are faced with a unique task of spatially organizing site activities with effective space utilization. This is a crucial planning exercise that if effectively rehearsed then can attribute to increased workers productivity, minimized construction accidents, improved delivery of project on time. One of the major issues in traditional project management tools...

One of the important problems in the field of Construction Industry is ‘rework’. It affects time, costs, quality, and almost every criteria of project success. As a result of rework and ineffective use of resources and materials in the workshops, there is always a considerable loss of resources, materials, investments, and workforce-time. Designing and planning through full awareness of clients...

this paper aims at providing a new model based on data envelopment analysis (dea) to prioritize project risks. it is clear that the large amounts of involved capitals, the long term of infrastructure projects’ implementation, and the project management problems in on-time completion of projects indicate the necessity of paying particular attention to this issue and conducting applied research i...

Materials management practice is a procedurethat coordinates planning, requirement assessment,sourcing, purchasing, transporting, materials storing and controlling, wastage minimisationand cost reduction for profit optimization.Material have been great problem to most firms in the construction industrydue tendency of mismanagement materials.The scale activities concerning managementincreases as...

With the promotion of Engineering Procurement Construction mode in railway construction projects, collaborative management between design and has faced increasing challenges due to complexities participants various professional fields involved EPC projects. This paper aims analyze issues present project construction. Utilizing social network analysis methodology combined with Wuli–Shili–Renli (...

Construction project control attempts to obtain real-time information and effectively enhance dynamic control and management via information sharing and analysis among project participants to eliminate construction conflicts and project delays. However, survey results for Taiwan indicate that construction commercial project management software is not widely accepted for subcontractors and suppl...

The use of condition monitoring techniques within industry to direct maintenance actions has increased rapidly over recent years to the extent that it has marked the beginning of what is likely to prove a new generation in production and maintenance management practice. There are both economic and technological reasons for this development driven by tight profit margins, high outage costs and a...