Research Activities

  • Innovations in project & construction management

  • Construction procurement systems

  • Determinants of project success

  • Key performance indicators & benchmarking

  • Project partnering & strategic alliance

  • Quality assurance & construction productivity

  • Constructability and its assessment

  • Value management

  • Market competitiveness

Consultancy & Technology Transfer Services

  • The demand and supply of construction personnel

  • Facilitating partnering workshops for client and contracting organizations

  • Facilitating value management workshops / training sessions for private and public sector clients

  • Analyzing partnering in Hong Kong

  • Preparing and delivering in-house training programs on project management

  • Establishment of standard architectural specification

  • The ready-mixed concrete supply in Hong Kong

Co-ordinator:

 Ir Prof Albert P.C. Chan
Researchers: Dr Daniel W.M. Chan
  Dr Y.H. Chiang
  Dr Linda C.N. Fan
  Dr Patrick S.W. Fong
  Dr Patrick T.I. Lam
  Dr B.S Tang
  Ms Sandy L.Y. Tang
  Prof Francis K.W. Wong

Selected Consultancy Projects

  1. Demand and supply of construction personnel
    (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)
    Commissioned by the Works Bureau of HKSAR Government, 2001-2002

  • To develop a new construction personnel manpower demand and supply estimating methodology

  • To produce a user-friendly computer based model for estimation of the demand and supply of different categories of construction personnel including labour trades for the short to medium term

  1. Partnering workshop for the senior residence at Jordan Valley (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)
    Commissioned by a leading construction firm, 2001

  • To liaise with the client to formulate the structure of the workshop and to prepare for the workshop materials

  • To facilitate the two-day workshop

  • To compile a detailed report to document the findings of the partnering workshop

  1. Analysis of partnering in Hong Kong (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)
    Commissioned by the Hong Kong Housing Society, 2001

  • To investigate the industry's perception on partnering

  • To identify practical elements leading to the success of partnering venture

  • To establish the measures for monitoring and evaluating the partnering performance of the two HKHS projects

  1. Establishment of standard architectural specification (PI: Dr Patrick T.I. Lam)
    Commissioned by a leading Singaporean QS firm, 2000

  • To establish a library of standard architectural specification clauses

  • To edit/update existing specification clauses

  • To incorporate relevant technical standards

  • To customize standard specifications to suit Singapore's building types and construction practice

  1. Value management workshop for the Water Supplies Department (PI: Dr Patrick S.W. Fong)
    Commissioned by the Water Supplies Department, HKSAR, 1999
  • To facilitate a strategic value management workshop with various project stakeholders on desilting and renovating several impounding reservoirs on Hong Kong Island and Lantau Island
  1. Value management awareness seminars (PI: Dr Patrick S.W. Fong)
    Commissioned by a leading consultancy firm, 1999
  • To provide a series of value management awareness seminars, conducted in either English or Cantonese, to 90 senior staff of a government department
Selected Research Projects

  1. Impact of building environments on organizational effectiveness: an investigation in the health-care sector (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)

  2. Quality relationships in public housing (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)

  3. Assessment of contractors' quality performance with a view to enhancement (PI: Dr Patrick T.I. Lam)

  4. An analysis of project partnering in Hong Kong (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)

  5. Project partnering as a construction management strategy (PI: Dr Linda C.N. Fan)

  6. Financial strategy of contractors in Hong Kong (PI: Dr Y.H. Chiang)

  7. Procurement selection model for Hong Kong (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)

  8. Evaluation of integrated procurement systems in Hong Kong (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)

  9. Benchmarking and development of a process model for applying value management in construction projects (PI: Dr Patrick S.W. Fong)

  10. Process improvement for construction (PI: Prof Albert P.C. Chan)

  11. Applications of value management in the construction industry in Hong Kong (PI: Dr Patrick S.W. Fong)


Examples of projects under different types of procurement system



Table 1. Procurement selection model for Hong Kong

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