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 ...

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. ...

Construction projects usually suffer from delays and cost overruns. Poor planning and control practices, as well as the impact of (adverse) weather, are two of the most common causes for these delays and cost overruns. ...

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 ...