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 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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Constant exposure to adverse weather conditions in civil work projects generates, in most cases, unavoidable delays during the execution phase. Therefore, activity planning and time management at an early stage will always ...

Nowadays, maintenance operations of the urban infrastructure in Spain are based on a "worst first" approach. Under this approach, pavements showing poor conditions are given higher priority to receive maintenance. In the ...