Introduction to the XXIVth World Road Congress

Introduction to the XXIVth World Road Congress

Major trial of a design and build project at Auckland

In the construction industry, there is historically a wide division between the design and construction aspects of a project. By bringing together these two aspects, there is often the opportunity for designer and the construction team to work together in a flexible and innovative manner to produce a better product. The result is the design and build concept. The central factor that differentiates a traditional construction contract is the tranfer of the design obligation from an independent [...]

Value engineering program

This article defines value engineering, and evaluates the value engineering programme of the Federal Higway Administration (FHWA) in the USA and its States. Value engineering is a recognised analysis technique, systematically applied by a multidisciplinary team. It is a basically functinally orientied process, examining ways to: improve overall design, simplify project construction, improve product maintenance and reduce a project's initial and/or life cycle cost.

Tenderind and procurment procedures of National Road Administrations in Western Europe

This paper containes the result of an exhange of information between national administrations of Western European Roads Directors Group within PIARC. The admintrative responsibilities for highways and the highways tendering and procurement procedures for the construction of national road networks are described. That is to say the net network which is the responsibility of the Road Dicertors. The purpose of the exercise was to obtain better back ground knowledge of current practices in Western Europe [...]

Risk management on mega projects

Use of risk management throughout the organization of the most recent Danish (Swedish/Danish) mega project.