Factors facilitating construction industry development

Developing a risk assessment model for PPP projects in China — A fuzzy synthetic evaluation approach

“…The sampling adequacy using KaiserMeyer-Olkin (KMO) and Barlett's Test of Sphericity can be used to test out the appropriateness [30]. The KMO statistic varies between 0 and 1.…”

Revealing bank lending decisions for contractors in Hong Kong

“…Although the research was completed in Hong Kong, the lessons learnt here may be relevant also to contractors in other areas. After all, contractors in other countries have also found limited access to finance their major problem (Fox and Skitmore, 2007;Enshassi et al, 2006;Reichstein et al, 2005;Fox et al, 1999). Apparently, the banking system in Hong Kong is rather "international" as a substantial number of banks are foreign controlled.…”

Application of artisanal dimension stone in the building industry: factor analysis of the regulatory environment in Nairobi, Kenya

“…The PCA successively extracts factors based on the maximum variance between the variables. For instance, the first factor extracted accounts for the largest amount of variance in the variables, while the second consists of the next largest amount of variance which is not related to or explained by the first one meaning that the two factors are not related (orthogonal) to one another and so on (Bryman & Cramer, 1997;Fox & Skitmore, 2007). Both the Eigenvalues and percentage of total variance explained (TVE) indicate the magnitude or relative strength of each component within the regulatory environment.…”