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 ...

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 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 ...

Planning and control are the basic functions of project management, in the construction industry too. Peru is growing at a fast pace during the last decade; this fact is also reflected in planned and built infrastructures. ...

The implementation of BIM (Building Information Modeling) allows managing the project information of a building or infrastructure from the design phase to its maintenance and operation. The BIM model can handle all the ...