Reliable engineering productivity measurement is a critical element of predictable project performance and continuous improvement. Despite the fact that engineering costs have risen to levels approaching 20 percent of total ...

Research conducted by the Construction Industry Institute (CII) shows that adequate pre-project planning benefits project in the areas of cost, schedule, and operational characteristics. Pre-project planning is the project ...

International construction projects are managed most effectively by planning for and addressing the risks that occur to all participants across the project’s entire life cycle. The first step in this process is the ...

This dissertation presents the culmination of a research study, started at the University of Texas at Austin in August 2003. The main objective of the study was to establish a research mechanism to investigate the impact ...

Construction workforce management practice needs optimization techniques to better address the issue of investment in the workforce. This dissertation presents a linear programming model developed to provide an ...

A variety of innovative management processes, which are also interchangeably termed as best practices, value enhancing practices, and value management, are increasingly being introduced into capital facility projects, thereby ...

Benchmarking is recognized as an important function in improving practices and therefore capital effectiveness. In 1999, the Construction Industry Institute (CII) defined benchmarking as a systematic process of measuring ...

Construction productivity has been a cause of great concern in both the construction industry and academia. Even though many companies have developed their own productivity tracking systems based on their experiences ...

This research documents the development of a performance measurement system for the delivery of pharmaceutical capital facility projects. The purpose of this research is to develop a system for evaluating pharmaceutical ...