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Akintoye, A (2000) Analysis of factors influencing project cost estimating practice. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 77-89.

Arditi, D and Mochtar, K (2000) Trends in productivity improvement in the US construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 15-27.

  • Type: Journal Article
  • Keywords: productivity trends; survey; USA
  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/014461900370915
  • Abstract:

    Surveys of the top 400 US contractors were conducted in 1979, 1983 and 1993 to identify the areas with potential for productivity improvement in the construction industry. The trends in the findings of these surveys are observed and interpreted. The results indicate that cost control, scheduling, design practices, labour training, and quality control are the functions that consistently over the years are perceived as having considerable room for productivity improvement, whereas materials packaging and foreign developments in construction technologies are perceived consistently as functions that do not have much effect on improving construction productivity. The functions that were identified as needing more improvement in 1993 compared with the previous surveys were prefabrication, new materials, value engineering, specifications, labour availability, labour training, and quality control, whereas those that were identified as needing less improvement than in the previous surveys were field inspection and labour contract agreements. Also, respondents indicated consistently over the years that they are willing to participate in activities related to improving construction productivity but are not interested in funding any such activities

Craig, R (2000) Re-engineering the tender code for construction works. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 91-100.

Edwards, D J, Holt, G D and Harris, F C (2000) A model for predicting plant maintenance costs. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 65-75.

Fielden, S L, Davidson, M J, Gale, A W and Davey, C L (2000) Women in construction: the untapped resource. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 113-21.

Fraser, C (2000) The influence of personal characteristics on effectiveness of construction site managers. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 29-36.

Garnett, N and Pickrell, S (2000) Benchmarking for construction: theory and practice. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 55-63.

Hughes, W, Hillebrandt, P and Murdoch, J (2000) The impact of contract duration on the cost of cash retention. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 11-4.

Kim, J-C, Kim, D-H, Kim, J-J, Ye, J-S and Lee, H-S (2000) Segmenting the Korean housing market using multiple discriminant analysis. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 45-54.

Treloar, G J, Love, P E D, Faniran, O O and Iyer-Raniga, U (2000) A hybrid life cycle assessment method for construction. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 5-9.

Walker, A and Newcombe, R (2000) The positive use of power on a major construction project. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), 37-44.

Zarkada-Fraser, A and Skitmore, M R (2000) Decisions with moral content: collusion. Construction Management and Economics, 18(01), -11.