Project knowledge mostly remains in minds of involved individuals of project team and is not captured and transferred across the project in order to be used in future projects, mainly in construction industry. The successful completion of a project requires a rigorous understanding of each stage that can be enhanced through integrating knowledge between all individuals involved in project, spec...

Project management in the information systems industry has had a poor record of delivering value and has consequently seized upon the recent evolutional of agile project management. What is meant by agile project management, from whence it originated and whether it has further applicability are not widely understood. The construction industry also has a less than perfect project management reco...

The public transport reform discussion initiated in 1992 in the Netherlands ended in 2000 with the enactment of a new passenger transport law. According to this new law, about a third of public transport services will have to be tendered by regional authorities in the coming years. In the meantime, a few regional railway lines have been contracted or tendered and preparations are made to tender...

With the continuous acceleration of China's economic development and urbanization process, construction industry has obtained unprecedented opportunities for development, units want to improve their own management level in an invincible position market. At present, however, our country enterprises engineering there are many shortcomings, such as organization design, schedule, project quality, p...

The paper describes the immediate need for Construction Process Re-engineering related to asset management. The paper uses the Building Envelope Life Cycle Asset Management (BELCAM) project to describe potential opportunities to improve the efficiency of maintaining constructed assets. BELCAM is a research project employing the following enabling technologies: maintenance management, life cycle...

The construction industry in the British Isles has long been accused of being low tech, averse to funding research and development, and reliant on other sectors allied to construction for innovative improvements. One area has been championed as reflecting change, especially post Latham and Egan, and that is construction procurement. The last few decades have witnessed a proliferation of procure...