The inclusion of sustainable criteria in public tenders could achieve environmental and social benefits. For this reason, public agencies are seriously involved in designing and implementing sustainable procurement policies ...

Research in Bid Tender Forecasting Models (BTFM) has been in progress since the 1950s. None of the developed models were easy-to-use tools for effective use by bidding practitioners because the advanced mathematical apparatus ...

The objective of this study is to: (1) evaluate the team behavior in the Spanish building industry; (2) investigate the barriers in adopting more integrated delivery methods; and (3) suggest practices to enhance team ...

Recent developments in the area of Bid Tender Forecasting have enabled bidders to implement new types of easy-to-use tools for increasing their chances of winning contracts. Although these new tools (such as iso-Score Curve ...

The literature demonstrates a lack of consensus and consistency to identify critical succes factors (CSFs) for different construction operations. Therefore, the objectives of the study are to: (1) identify and categorize ...

The goal of the research described in this paper is to investigate the obstacles and barriers that countries face during the development of an asset management system for infrastructures. Two countries are chosen for the ...

The construction sector, in general, and the building sub-sector, in particular, have been classified as non-innovative and too traditional. In other sectors related to the manufacturing industry, at the end of last century, ...

In Peru, most of the projects are carried out using public funds, being the Government the main developer. A high percentage of these projects go through a public procurement process in order to be built. During this ...

The aim of this paper is to show a tool of planning activities for the execution of building projects based on the occupation of physical space and resource availability. The tool was developed to prove a new view of the ...

The aim of this paper is to show a methodology to control construction projects with high level of outsourcing proving a multidimensional perspective that enable a view for the cost in a traditional budget structure, and ...