Journal ArticleDOI
Are Construction Disputes Inevitable
Sai On Cheung,Tak Wing Yiu +1 more
TLDR
The authors suggested that construction dispute can be conceptualized as having three basic components: contract provisions, triggering events and conflict.Abstract:
Many construction projects are of long-duration and high value and foreseeing and planning for every eventuality may be impossible. Engineers and managers are expected to solve problems surfacing during the execution stage. Moreover, problems blended with conflict are damaging and manifest as disputes. The authors suggested that construction dispute can be conceptualized as having three basic components: contract provisions, triggering events and conflict. This conceptualization fits nicely with fault tree (FT) framework that is used to evaluate system failures. Furthermore, through the use of a hypothetical case, a fuzzy FT model was employed to analyze the likelihood of construction dispute. This research suggested that complex project delivered in the traditional design then build approach, construction dispute are bound to appearread more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Project Pathogens: The Anatomy of Omission Errors in Construction and Resource Engineering Project
TL;DR: A generic systemic causal model of the key factors that contributed to omission errors in construction and engineering projects is presented and can improve understanding of the archetypal nature and underlying dynamics of omission errors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Moving Beyond Optimism Bias and Strategic Misrepresentation: An Explanation for Social Infrastructure Project Cost Overruns
TL;DR: Acknowledgment of the systemic pathogenic influences has enabled the establishment of an orthodoxy, which provides an impetus for addressing the issues needed to improve the performance of social infrastructure projects.
Journal ArticleDOI
Causes of Conflicts in a Construction Industry: A Communicational Approach
Sigitas Mitkus,Tomas Mitkus +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the causes of conflicts arising between client and contractors in the construction industry, and they hypothesize that the main cause of conflicts is unsuccessful communication between the client and the contractor.
Dispute causation: identification of pathogenic influences in construction. | NOVA. The University of Newcastle's Digital Repository
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the underlying pathogens that clients and contractors perceive to contribute to disputes in construction projects, which can provide an ameliorated understanding of the origin of disputes and therefore enable their prevention.
Journal ArticleDOI
Dispute causation: identification of pathogenic influences in construction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the underlying pathogens that clients and contractors perceive to contribute to disputes in construction projects, which can provide an ameliorated understanding of the origin of disputes and therefore enable their prevention.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations
TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that if transaction costs are negligible, the organization of economic activity is irrelevant, since any advantages one mode of organization appears to hold over another will simply be eliminated by costless contracting.
Book
Markets and hierarchies, analysis and antitrust implications : a study in the economics of internal organization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the transaction to be the ultimate unit of microeconomic analysis, and define hierarchical transactions as ones for which a single administrative entity spans both sides of the transaction, some form of subordination prevails and, typically, consolidated ownership obtains.
Book
Fault Tree Handbook
TL;DR: This handbook has been developed not only to serve as text for the System Safety and Reliability Course, but also to make available to others a set of otherwise undocumented material on fault tree construction and evaluation.