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Developing countries have faced many problems regarding humanitarian reconstructed buildings, especially during occupancy when most donors have left. Hospitals are some of the most important buildi...

The conventional contract that was usually used in the national road construction in Indonesia was replaced by the Performance Based Contract (PBC) due to the weaknesses of conventional contract in terms of the life cycle of the project. However, because the contractor role and risk influence the contractor performance; hence, the PBC has been improvised into the Long Segment Maintenance Contract (LSMC). The LSMC was introduced to assist contractors in improving their organizations to enhance performance in undertaking national road construction projects. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between LSMC and contractor performance in Aceh, Indonesia. Data collection for this study was done through a questionnaire survey, which was carried out involving non-small contractor companies from grades 5 to 7. Questionnaires were sent to 104 respondents. From the 104 questionnaires disseminated, 100 were completed and deemed usable. The data were analysed by the PLS software, followed by SPSS. The findings showed a positive relationship between LSMC and contractor performance.

Responding to the effects of the earthquake and tsunami in 2004, Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstruksi Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam-Nias (BRR NAD-Nias) was assigned as the coordinating and executing agency for improving the region in Aceh province and Nias islands in Indonesia. The allocation for the projects directly implemented by the BRR was approximately USD 2.6 billion. Based on local regulation, these assets must be turned over to the Aceh government. Although most assets were already occupied, neither an appropriate handover nor external project evaluation was conducted. This preliminary study surveyed opinions from building users regarding building quality, the need for building evaluation, and the general opinion for occupying assets with no appropriate handover process in a post-disaster context. The samples included a school, health center, and a sub-district level government office in Banda Aceh city. This study used descriptive methods and a quantitative approach. Results showed the majority of respondents doubted the quality and condition of the assets and agreed with the importance of conducting asset evaluation. However, they are uncertain whether occupying assets before an appropriate handover was appropriate because the post-disaster situation required assets to be functional as soon as possible.

As the largest reconstruction project in the developing world at the time, Aceh’s post reconstruction experience may provide useful lessons on how aid is delivered particularly for public buildings and facilities as one of the largest amount of projects after housing. In Indonesian construction industry, among many stages of construction process, handover is still commonly underrated or even skipped. This is no different in the case of post-disaster reconstruction where challenges raised as there were pressures to build thousands of facilities in a limited amount of time and need to be occupied as soon as possible. This study objective is to evaluate the handover practice in post-disaster reconstruction of public buildings and facilities after being occupied. The survey focused only for buildings constructed by the Indonesia government agency (BRR) and managed to cover 24 buildings that are divided into government offices, schools and community health centres in Banda Aceh, the capital city of Aceh province from total 53 buildings available. Questionnaires were distributed to respondents which are government staff that responsible for the building operational with a response rate of 54%. The survey results show that the handover process is not completed and therefore the respondents doubt with the building quality. Though, respondents are neutral in accepting buildings without proper handover because they understand the urgency of operating public buildings and facilities immediately in emergency situation. Respondents still urged for post-occupancy evaluation by independent committee and fully agreed for proper handover practice in the future. As for final recommendation, conducting project evaluation by independent committee is essential even most of the buildings already being used and might replace the lack of handover administration stage for legal solution in government assets in the context of Aceh’s post-reconstruction.

Quality continues to be such an issue in humanitarian projects and it is because the model of quality control in normal business is driven by its customers however, does not operate in the aid sector. Evaluation and monitoring in every building life cycle in reconstruction process is important to increase the quality of the aid project. Among all types of public buildings and facilities, hospital is considered as one of the most essential assets in disaster management. However, there is no list of criteria available yet to evaluate post-disaster hospital building performance. The objective of this study is to identify the key criteria for hospital building. A total of 116 respondents are collected from experts of built environment field and high level position staff in grade B hospital in the capital city of Aceh province, Banda Aceh. After conducting Cronbach's alpha coefficient test and factor analysis, total twenty-six criteria were found reliable and valid. Subsequent with the relative importance indices (RII) analysis, this study has come out with the top-fifteen most important criteria for post-disaster reconstruction building performance as in order: safety, health, control of environment impact, easiness, accessibility, engineering, building quality, staff and patient environment, comfort, functionality, building form and material, operational maintenance guideline, local institution capacity, architecture, disaster resilience, and the last criterion is sustainability. It is recommended to use these criteria for hospital building performance evaluation especially in disaster prone area. Future study is need to find out that the same criteria is applicable for other type of buildings and locations.

Housing shortage is a problem for all levels of household income particularly affects low-income households in recent years. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between migration and housing prices of low-income households. This study adopted the quantitative research method and involved a questionnaire survey of 381 low-income households in the district 20 located in south of Tehran, Iran. The result of this research shows that the inappropriate policy to control the housing prices in Tehran. The finding of this research can be used by the public and the private sectors as a basis for policy and decision making in housing markets, especially in the Iranian context.

Factors affecting the real estate market are very crucial and of utmost importance worldwide. In previous behavioral research conducted by Al-Nahdi (2014, 2015), Al-Nahdi and Abu Hassan (2014, 2015) and Al-Nahdi et al. (2014, 2015) it was found that subjective norms was the more significant factor for Saudi housing purchasing behavior In Jeddah. This research pursues and tries to understand which particular dimension of the subjective norm has the most significant influence on Saudi purchasers’ behavior when purchasing housing. The study examines the effect of attitude, subjective norm (Spouse, Children, Parents, Friends and Reference group), and perceived behavior control on the intention to purchase real estate. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed to respondents in Jeddah. Based on 220 questionnaires collected, the results show that there is a positively significant relationship between Attitude, Children influence, Reference group and Perceived Behavior Control toward the intention to purchase real estate, whereas the Spouse, Parents and Friends studies have not.

The tsunami that struck Aceh on 26th December 2004 had received the largest international aid-response due to the tremendous destruction. About USD 2.6 billion were spent on projects implemented by the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Bureau (BRR NAD-Nias). The fact is that when BRR were dissolved, there is still not a single asset that has been transferred to the Aceh government until at present and no evaluation made so far. The objective of this study is to evaluate these assets – government offices, schools, and community health centres at sub-district level – based on end-user judgements. This study had applied the quantitative approach and for the sampling method, first started with random cluster sampling that covered 45% buildings and followed by the simple random method with the target of 1 building to 1 respondent. From 48 questionnaires distributed, 50% were completed and collected. For the purpose of data analysis, this study made use of descriptive statistics-median, RII (Relative Important Index), and mode analysis. The results were utilised as planned and accepted, however, with unclear transfer processes and incomplete documents. As a conclusion, these assets could not be regarded as assets belonging to the Aceh government until proper documentation has been completed.