Qualifications BSc(QS) [Wits] PhD [UCT] Dr Cattell's areas of expertise include: Unbalanced bidding, bidding models, component item pricing, Component Unit Pricing theory, cost estimating, cost engineering, risk analysis, tendering, modern portfolio theory, cumulative prospect theory, utility theory, prospect theory, value-at-risk analysis, motoring economics, motor vehicle fringe benefit taxation, cashflow analysis, life-cycle cost analysis, total-cost-of-ownership studies and financial economic modelling and optimisations. His work experience also includes 25 years in the IT industry, including web development, and programming in Basic, Visual Basic, C, Java and JavaScript.
Articles
On being balanced in an unbalanced world (with M. Skitmore), Journal of the operational research society (2012)
Extract:
This paper examines the case of a procurement auction for a single project, in...
An overview of component unit pricing theory, Construction management and economics (2012)
Component unit pricing (CUP) theory presents a fresh approach to item pricing, described as the...
A proposed framework for applying cumulative prospect theory to an unbalanced bidding model (with Paul A. Bowen and Ammar P. Kaka), Journal of construction engineering and management (2011)
Recent research on unbalanced bidding models has identified both the benefits and the risks generated...
The risks of unbalanced bidding (with Paul Anthony Bowen and Ammar P. Kaka), Construction management and economics (2010)
Unbalanced bidding models have largely ignored the risk aspect of item pricing. Many researchers have...
A simplified unbalanced bidding model (with Paul Anthony Bowen and Ammar P. Kaka), Construction management and economics (2008)
Much research effort to date has focused on the development and use of bidding models...
Books
Construction item pricing: For more profit and less risk, Construction item pricing: For more profit and less risk (2011)
The pricing of the constituent component items of a project has a substantial infl uence...
The SA guide to tax-efficient cars: A study on how to drive more for less (2002)
This book delves deeply into the issues surrounding company cars and car allowances. It is...
PhD Thesis
Component unit pricing theory, Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (2009)
Building contractors are often commissioned using unit price based contracts. They, nevertheless, often compete on...
Conference Papers
The development of an online bidding game as a learning tool, 36th annual conference for Australian University Building Educators Association (AUBEA) (2011)
Competitive bidding in construction involves high degrees of risk. The nature of the work involved...
A model to distribute mark-up amongst quotation component items: An outline (with Paul A. Bowen and Ammar P. Kaka), Paper presented at the 2nd Postgraduate conference on construction industry development (2004)
The outline of a proposed new unbalanced bidding model is discussed. Background is provided as...