...Patrick Sik‐wah Fong This paper reports the results of a questionnaire survey of public clients in the construction industry in Hong Kong on their organisational knowledge, responses and use of value management (VM). It concludes that VM is essential to capital projects both to reduce costs...

...James M. Kearns Many Third World capital project investments lack “sustainability” — they are often successfully designed and implemented but then fail to operate well enough or long enough to realise the full intended benefits. It is argued here that the administrative environment within which...