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Outsourcing has considerably increased in number, as evident by the literature. Many activities, once being carried out by the organization itself, are now accomplished by contractors. Nowadays, implementing successful outsourcing projects is an important and challenging deal for outsourcer organizations. Such organizations always aim to finish their projects based on a defined scope of time, budget and quality while accepted by the final customer. Managers are trying to use outsourcing strategy more extensively but are faced with various problems in practice. So it’s advantageous to perform a research to identify these difficulties to be able to employ this strategy more efficiently. Due to... 

This research represents findings about obstacles in using value engineering in construction projects of khorasan razavi province via collection of information and views of experts of value engineering.The research shows that the value engineering in the majority of the projects is not practiced and majority of the projects are not benefited from this technique. Many experts believe that lack of required culture and motivation to save up and lack of organisational position for this technique are the main factors for non-progressive use of assessment engineering.The absence of proper understanding of the objectives and place of the value engineering is also an effective factor of on its... 

In construction projects, when the employer does not have enough knowledge or experience to implement and manage the project, or does not have enough time to implement the project, can hire a Management Contractor with sufficient experience and knowledge in the field of project management. On the other hand, the inability of the Management Contractor to manage the project or contracting with him in inappropriate way, not only causes additional costs for hiring the Management Contractor, but also causes the employer to suffer due to the inappropriate performance of the Management Contractor. Therefore, the utmost care should be taken in choosing the Management Contractor and contracting with...