A comparative study of construction cost and commercial management services in the UK and China

Zhou, L, Udeaja, CE ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6405-9664, Victoria, M and Chen, Q 2016, A comparative study of construction cost and commercial management services in the UK and China , Technical Report, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), London.

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Abstract

Cost and commercial management processes and practices in different parts of the world vary significantly. In the UK and the British Commonwealth these practices are mainly market oriented and matured over several centuries. The effects of globalisation and impact of foregoing recession have led most UK based cost consultancies to expand overseas. In contrast China, the modern world’s economic powerhouse is still transforming its construction industry from a communist quota based system to a market based system. UK-China cooperation agreements foster greater economic cooperation and professional mobility. This requires better understanding of systems and processes in both countries. There is a significant level of lack of common understanding of construction cost and commercial management systems of these two countries. Therefore, this research aims at mapping the UK Cost and Commercial Management systems to Chinese Engineering Cost Systems.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Schools:	Schools > School of the Built Environment > Centre for Urban Processes, Resilient Infrastructures & Sustainable Environments (UPRISE)
Publisher:	Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Funders:	RICS Research Trust Funding
Depositing User:	CE Udeaja
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2019 15:03
Last Modified:	28 Jan 2019 15:03
URI:	http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/49894

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