Built Environment Project and Asset Management: Volume 1 Issue 1

Editorial: integrating “infrastructure project management” with its “built asset management”

Mohan Kumaraswamy

This paper aims to convey the rationale underpinning this new journal and its timeliness in addressing emerging imperatives in our built environment, to highlight the range of the…

A real options framework to evaluate investments in toll road projects delivered under the two‐phase development strategy

Baabak Ashuri, Jian Lu, Hamed Kashani

This paper aims to present a financial valuation framework based on the real options theory to evaluate investments in toll road projects delivered under the two‐phase development…

A new future for the past: a model for adaptive reuse decision‐making

Peter Bullen, Peter Love

Adaptive reuse is an effective strategy for optimizing the operational and commercial performance of built assets. While the benefits of adaptive re‐use have been widely espoused…

Conflict analysis study for public engagement programme in infrastructure planning

C.M. Tam, Thomas K.L. Tong

Stakeholder management in the form of public engagement in urban planning and infrastructure project impact assessments have become increasingly prevailing. However, the exercise…

Effectiveness of infrastructure asset management: challenges for public agencies

Daan Schraven, Andreas Hartmann, Geert Dewulf

The aim of this research is to better understand the decisions in infrastructure asset management at public agencies and the challenges of these agencies to improve the…

Quality control analysis of downtime and time to repair for water supply pipes

Amarjit Singh, Stacy Adachi, Megan Inouye

The purpose of this paper is to investigate performance times from a quality engineering perspective for response and repair of pipes at a public utility. The objective is to…

Ethical views of micro‐enterprises delivering project and asset management services in west‐central Scotland

James Sommerville

There is little in the way of research on ethical views on the project and asset management sides of the construction industry, and an absence of work on micro‐enterprises. This…

Applying just‐in‐time principles in the delivery and management of airport terminal buildings

Low Sui Pheng, Faisal Manzoor Arain, Jolene Wong Yan Fang

This study aims to examine how the just‐in‐time (JIT) principles can be adopted for the air travel industry with specific emphasis on the management and operations of terminal…

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh