...Qais K. Jahanger Purpose The US construction industry has been relatively slow to employ digital information technologies. The lack of adoption by project owners is a result of them not having a solid understanding of probable factors (PFs) that could influence the implementation of such systems...

...Faizan Naveed; Khurram Iqbal Ahmad Khan Purpose This paper investigates the causative relation between information complexity and construction quality. The objectives are to identify the challenges faced in the communication of information and data on construction projects and determine how...

... 17 11 2015 26 01 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Malaysia Risk Information Contracts Disputes Contract law Clause 11.0 of PAM 2006 was selected as the example for the restructured contract...

...Bee Lan Oo; Florence Yean Yng Ling; Alexander Soo Purpose – Contractors rely on effective pricing methods in order to translate potential business into reality for long-term survival of their firms. This involves effective utilization of bidding feedback information toward winning jobs with high...

...Hock Kang Sherman Heng; Martin Loosemore Purpose – The delivery of high quality healthcare services to the community requires the integration of information from a wide range of sources within a complex and highly dynamic environment. Using structural holes theory the challenges and opportunities...

...Christian Koch This article discusses how information technology and human resource oriented management tools can be integrated using their respective strengths to enable knowledge production. Two companies’ KM strategies encompassing a strong IT‐component in combination with organisation, training...

... specification information technologies in this sector. We present the results of an analysis of the ways that small practices currently create, manage and communicate project specification information and an overview of our research into new models to support these processes. The research has focused...

...GREGORY M. PERKINSON; VICTOR E. SANVIDO; FRANCOIS GROBLER This paper presents a conceptual framework to store, manage and retrieve facility programming information called a Facility Programming Product Model (FPPM). The FPPM represents an ‘open’ information framework that members of the facility...