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Key contractor selection criteria for green construction projects in the UAE

International Journal of Construction Management, 2019
Selecting the appropriate contractor is of paramount importance to the success of any construction project. This is even more important to green construction projects. There is a noticeable surge in the number of green construction projects.
S. El-Sayegh, Munir Basamji, Ahmad Haj Ahmad, Nizar Zarif   +3 more
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Multi-mode resource constrained project scheduling and contractor selection: Mathematical formulation and metaheuristic algorithms

Applied Soft Computing, 2019
Contractor selection is a matter of particular attraction for project managers whose aim is to complete projects considering time, cost and quality issues.
Reza Nemati-Lafmejani, Hamed Davari-Ardakani, Hamid Najafzad   +2 more
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The Contractors

2014
Fully illustrated in colour, The Contractors, is the first history of the challenges and adventures faced by British civilengineering contractors from their emergence with canal construction in the late-eighteenth century to the presentday. Extraordinarily ambitious, largely unrecognised men who built the world's infrastructure - its roads and railways,
Hugh Ferguson, Mike Chrimes
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Contractor selection for renovation of cultural heritage buildings by PROMETHEE method

Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 2019
Cultural heritage buildings have architectural, historical and cultural values creating one of the most dominant features, which is related to the local identity.
Žydrūnė Morkūnaitė, V. Podvezko, E. Zavadskas, R. Baušys   +3 more
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How Contractor Behavior Affects Engineering Project Value-Added Performance

Journal of Management in Engineering, 2019
Contractors are one of the most important project participants, and their behavior has gained increasing attention for improving performance, but few studies have been devoted to focusing on the forms of contractor behavior and project value-added ...
Jun Liu, Zhixiu Wang, M. Skitmore, Ling Yan   +3 more
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Role of Performance Feedback on Process Performance in Construction Projects: Client and Contractor Perspectives

Journal of Management in Engineering, 2018
This study addressed a perceived research gap by examining the role of performance feedback in construction process performance from both client and contractor perspectives using a database of unpr ...
Ossi Pesämaa, J. Larsson, P. Eriksson
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Contractor management performance evaluation model at prequalification stage

Expert Systems With Applications, 2015
Muhd Zaimi Abd Majid
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Identification of Key Contractor Characteristic Factors That Affect Project Success under Different Project Delivery Systems: Empirical Analysis Based on a Group of Data from China

, 2016
The reasonable choice of a proper project delivery system (PDS) is one of the key links to project success. Research in this area has focused on decision making in PDSs. However, project success depends not only on the science of choosing a PDS but also,
Bingsheng Liu, T. Huo, Junna Meng, J. Gong, Q. Shen, Ting Sun   +5 more
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The contractor’s site organization

1995
The key personnel employed by a contractor on a civil engineering construction site are: the agent, who is in charge; sub-agents and/or section engineers; the plant manager or site coordinator; the general foreman; the office manager. On small jobs there may only be the agent and a section or site engineer.
Alan C. Twort, J. Gordon Rees
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Managing contractor safety the contractor's perspective

IEE Seminar: Manslaughter - it could happen to you, 2004
Too often safety during work at site is perceived as the responsibility of the contractor alone. Current health and safety legislation would say otherwise. This paper covers the practical aspects of managing the safety of personnel involved in undertaking work on switchgear at a customer's site.
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