By Rizwan U, Farooqui, Syed M. Ahmed, Sarosh H. Lodi June 2008 Abstract The Pakistani Construction Industry has always been of economic and social significance to the country. In contrast to the prospective share of Pakistani construction in the local and global economic...
The BVA research has been very active in the first quarter of 2018. Using the CIB W117 Journal of “The Advancement of Performance Information and Value” and posting it to the “Research Gate” open platform, the effort to get the...
Hosted by the City of Over the past 25 years, The Best Value Approach (BVA) has been tested on 2000+ projects worth 6.6B in services with a 98% success rate in 7 different countries and 33 states. Dr. Dean has concentrated...
By Black Carroll, Matthew Lee, Dean Kashiwagi, Kenneth Sullivan, Marie Sullivan April 2005 Abstract The bonding and insurance surety industry has had difficulty regulating risk in the construction industry. They have had a constant increase in payouts and premiums due to increased construction...
By Nathan Chong, Kenneth Sullivan, Charles Egbu, Dean Kashiwagi July 2007 Abstract The motivation behind alternate delivery systems has been the poor performance of the traditional design-bid-build process. Construction professionals have identified public contract law and bureaucratic procurement/contract offices as one of the...
By Dean Kashiwagi July 2009 Abstract The Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG) at the Del E. Webb School of Construction, has developed a methodology to process data into information to reduce facility system life-cycle cost and risk of nonperformance. The methodology reshapes...
By Aderemi Adeyemi, Jacob Kashiwagi, Dean Kashiwagi, Kenneth Sullivan May 2009 Abstract The purpose of the paper is to propose and test to transform the teaching of procurement/project management from an education based approach to a research based approach, to change the focus...
By Pasis Mselle, Mex Muatjetjeja, Jacob Kashiwagi, Kenneth Sullivan July 2009 Abstract Purpose Review the attempt of transforming University of Botswana (UB) faculty into research based faculty using the U.S. Embassy test as a mechanism. MEthodology The UB faculty were trained through a mentorship of learning...
By Mex Muatjetjeju, Jacob Kashiwagi, Dean Kashiwagi, Kenneth Sullivan October 2009 Abstract The University of Botswana (UB) Project Management (PM) section in the Civil Engineering (CE) faculty are in a resource restricted environment and tasked to teach three classes a semester. Each faculty...
By Jacob Kashiwagi September 2012 Abstract Although some reports have shown the performance of the construction industry to be improving, it has yet to find a solution to ensure high performance on construction projects and services. Over the last 18 years, many public...