... Projects Health and safety and work The construction industry has played a significant role in bolstering national economies and fostering social development within nations. Extant studies have identified a notable and favorable correlation between competitive intelligence outputs and the economic...

... study's sample size revealed that the average error between the actual and the estimated project costs of Monte-Carlo simulation models (5.49%) performed better compared to the Bayesian model (5.95%), support vector machines (6.03%), case-based reasoning (11.69%), artificial neural networks (12.62...

...Harish Kumar Singla; Srividhya Sridharan Purpose Previous studies have highlighted that overheads form a critical part of the total project cost. However, despite this knowledge, the precise estimation of overheads is often neglected in construction projects. This paper aims to examine the reasons...

...Mian M. Ajmal; Mehmood Khan; Angappa Gunasekaran; Petri T. Helo Purpose Project scope creep is a nightmare and nearly intolerable task. Most project managers struggle to curtail the expanse and degree of scope creep. This study examines different likely project scope creep factors associated...

... and distrust in accordance with contractors’ quality and cost performance. Research limitations/implications One limitation is that dwelling fit-out projects are generally small in size. Parties in small size projects might have different mindsets than large projects. Thus, it is worthwhile to extend...

...Solomon Olusola Babatunde; Srinath Perera; Lei Zhou; Chika Udeaja Purpose – Studies on barriers to public private partnerships (PPPs) in Nigeria, especially those that are empirical, remain rare. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to identify and classify barriers to PPP projects implementation...