Articles

A refined basket of goods approach for comparing construction costs between countries, Australasian journal of construction economics and building (2009)

Most comparisons of construction industry performance require that construction costs be converted to a common...

 

Evaluation of construction contractor performance: A critical analysis of some recent research (with Craig Langston), Construction management and economics (2006)

International comparisons of construction industry performance are notoriously difficult. A recent comparative study, extensive in...

 

Books

Workplace strategies and facilities management: Building in value (with Craig Langston and Gerard De Valence) (2003)

This book provides comprehensive coverage of issues that facility managers in the property industry need...

 

Conference Papers

The use of assessment hurdles: Pedagogy v. practicality (with Ron Best), Paper presented at the 34th Australasian Universities Building Educators Association conference (AUBEA 2009) (2009)

The setting of assessment hurdles, i.e. components of assessment schemes that must be passed in...

 

Convergence of construction costs in the single European market (with Craig Langston), Managing IT in construction/Managing construction for tomorrow. Proceedings of the 26th international conference on IT in construction & 1st international conference on managing construction for tomorrow (2009)

Several studies have shown evidence of price convergence between countries in the European Union (EU)...

 

The development of a BIM based building measurement learning tool, Paper presented at the AUBEA 2008 conference (2008)

The paper discusses the development of an integrated tool for teaching and learning building measurement....

 

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The development and testing of a purchasing power parity method for comparing construction costs internationally (2008)

Over the past fifty to sixty years there have been numerous attempts to compare the...