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The current COVID19 crisis has caused many face-to-face continuing professional education classes to be converted to online formats. I taught one this past week that lasted for 8 hours. It went...
11 April 2020 5,478 4 View
Hand-back criteria are those metrics used to measure the condition of a facility before it is transferred back to the owner/client at the conclusion of the concession period.
15 November 2019 9,215 2 View
For those that may not be familiar with the term, LSM is NOT a bar chart or Gantt chart. LSM is a robust production-based algorithm that greatly simplifies the visual description of project...
11 February 2019 7,341 4 View
We are looking at QBS for construction. We know it is heavily used for design contracts.
04 August 2018 503 4 View
We are looking for something other than the typical Likert scale-based decision algorithm. We are only interested in relatively simple systems that rely on past quantitative project performance data.
04 August 2018 4,138 2 View
Value for money (VfM) is a widely used term but one with very broad definitions and very little empirical research on measuring it. We'd like to find anyting in that area including algorithms,...
15 April 2018 6,814 15 View
This links with my collaboration metric question. We are trying to measure the costs and benefits of investing in formal partnering activities on US highway construction contracts.
01 October 2015 1,062 3 View
I'm aware of specific cases where construction contractors will purchase commodity futures to hedge against material volatility, especially in petroleum-based products. Does anyone know of past...
04 July 2015 2,854 4 View