... rail lines that provide viable travel alternatives to the automobile (Siemiatycki, 2012). This is affirmed by Farrell and Roumboutsos (2013) that rail projects found it harder to attract private finance, particularly for track and other basic infrastructure. This has been partly attributed...

...L.M. Swaffield; A.M. McDonald Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate attitudes and opinions of quantity surveyors working for design and construction contractors regarding the importance and use of life cycle costing within private finance initiative (PFI) projects, and the subsequent...

... Partnership Maintenance Facilities Private finance Hong Kong Likewise, all interviewees from the contractor welcomed the new approach (interviewees C1, C2, C3 and C4). They believed that PPP provides them with greater flexibility as the contractors are allowed to control their own programme...

...Akintola Akintoye; Ezekiel Chinyio Purpose The UK Government has now adopted Private Finance Initiative (PFI) as a major vehicle for the delivery of additional resources to the health sector in order to achieve a greater investment in healthcare facilities. The purpose of this paper is to examine...

...Bing Li; A. Akintoye; P.J. Edwards; C. Hardcastle Purpose The paper aims to report the findings of research into perceptions of what makes the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) attractive or unattractive as a procurement system for projects in the UK. Design/methodology/approach The research...

...AKINTOLA AKINTOYE; CRAIG TAYLOR; EAMON FITZGERALD The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is a recent development in the UK in which private sector organisations, design, build, finance and operate assets to deliver a service to public sector clients. The initiative is expected to bring the private...