Poor design and documentation quality has been identified as being a major factor in
reducing the overall performance and efficiency of construction projects as well as being …

While it is widely recognized that additional costs due to rework can have an adverse effect
on project performance, limited empirical research has been done to investigate the …

Construction and engineering practitioners have found it increasingly difficult to learn from
their mistakes, particularly with regard to the prevention, identification and/or containment of …

Cost and schedule overruns are endemic features of transport infrastructure projects.
Despite the considerable amount of research within the field of transport and planning in the …

Construction and engineering projects are typically complex in nature and are prone to cost
and schedule overruns. A significant factor that often contributes to these overruns is rework …

Rework represents the unnecessary effort of redoing a process or activity that is incorrectly
implemented the first time. Using a structured questionnaire survey, the causes and costs of …

The Australian government has issued several calls to improve the performance of the
construction industry. A lack of available benchmark metrics has made it difficult, if not …

The determination as to why projects fail to meet planned schedule, cost, and quality
parameters is a leitmotiv within the construction, engineering, and project management …

Construction professionals recognize that rework is a significant factor contributing to poor
project performance, yet little is known about its antecedents and consequently it remains an …

Despite its technological advance, the Japanese construction industry is currently paying
attention to the quality of its design documents. It acknowledges defective design as the …