01) Industry Associations - [Back to Top]

• American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
  This is the site of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association's (AREUEA), which offers an online information resource, access to publications about the housing market and government policies, and a schedule of conferences sponsored by the organization.
• FIDIC - International Federation of Consulting Engineers
  This is the site of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, which offers information about the organization's workshops, conferences, and seminars, as well as news related to its activities and links to its publications.
• International Cost Engineering Council
  This is the site of the International Cost Engineering Council, a worldwide confederation of cost engineering, quantity surveying and project management societies, which promotes cooperation between national and multinational cost engineering, quantity surveying and project management organizations around the world in over 40 countries.
• International Project Finance Association
  This is the site of the International Project Finance Association (IPFA) the only international, independent, nonprofit association dedicated to promoting and representing the interests of private sector companies involved in project finance and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) throughout the world.
• Major Projects Association
  This is the site of the UK-based Major Projects Association, which offers a forum for organizations involved with large and complex projects to share knowledge and experience and counts among its members government departments and agencies, contractors, consulting engineers, suppliers, management consultants, lawyers, funding institutions, and project promoters.
• Pacific Rim Real Estate Society
  This is the site of the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES), which provides a focus for property researchers, educators and practitioners in the Pacific-Rim Region and has over 120 members from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Korea working with real estate organizations worldwide to further develop international property research and education.
• Professional Risk Managers' International Association
  This is the site of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA), a provider of professional networks, certification, handbooks, online and classroom training, research and other resources for the risk profession and has 33,347 members from 167 countries working to establish and implement the global best practices of risk management.
• Project Management Institute
  This site of the Project Management Institute, which focuses on making project management indispensable for business results, offers news and links to training and publications of interest to project management professionals.
• ECRI-Engineering & Construction Risk Institute
  ECRI is an international risk management consulting forum that provides information and guidelines to the engineering and construction industry to assist in the development of project risk management capabilities and to identify and analyze total project risks and the allocation of these risks among client, contractors, and others.

02) Academic Associations - [Back to Top]

• Academy of International Business
  The site of the Academy of International Business (AIB), which is an association of some 3,000 scholars and specialists in the field of international business in over 70 different countries worldwide, .provides information about events, careers, and publications in the international business sector.
• Association of Researchers in Construction Management
  The site of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management, an organization that seeks to further the advancement of knowledge in all aspects of management in construction by supporting education, dissemination and research, offers information about and links to conferences, publications, workshops, abstracts, and resources of interest to management construction professionals.
• CIB World
  This site of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, a global network for international exchange and cooperation in research and innovation in building and construction that supports an improved building process and of improved performance of the built environment, offers databases that provide information about the organization, its conferences, and its publications.
• The Global Social Change Research Project
  This site focuses on the specific topics relating to what globalization is and how is it happening, why industrialization first occurred in Europe, and how far democratization will spread and in what forms, presenting information that looks at long-term, large-scale changes in social, political and economic systems at the national and international levels and offering links to sites with theories, approaches, data and research.
• The International Management Division of the Academy of Management
  The site of the Academy of Management's International Management Division offers information about conferences and special announcements concerning activities of interest to the international management community.

03) Research Centers - Major Projects - [Back to Top]

• The Center for Energy, Petroleum, and Mineral Law & Policy CEPMLP at the University of Dundee in Scotland supports graduate education and research activities in the field of international business transactions and natural resources and energy law and policy. 30+ years in existence, 80+ publications. Also runs the OGEMID electronic discussion list, which provides professionals with a special interest in Oil-Gas-Energy-Mining and Infrastructure investment, legislative reform, contracting, arbitration and other forms of Dispute management with a forum for peer discussion.
• CIB World
  This site of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, a global network for international exchange and cooperation in research and innovation in building and construction that supports an improved building process and of improved performance of the built environment, offers databases that provide information about the organization, its conferences, and its publications.
• Hydro-Quebec-CAE Chair in the Management of Technology
  The site of the Hydro-Quebec/Cae Chair in the Management of Technology at the University of Quebec in Montreal offers information about research in R&D management and innovation, particularly in capital-intensive industries.
• Keston Institute for Infrastructure
  The site of USC's Keston Institute for Infrastructure offers information about and links to conferences and symposia, including a lecture on extremely large, multi-billion-dollar engineering works and the risks involved with such projects.
• Norsk senter for prosjektledelse
  The site of the Norwegian Center of Project Management, which is written chiefly in Norwegian, offers information for organizations interested in developing new competence in the sphere of project management and/or seeking an arena for network building and an external reference for in-house competence.
• The Concept research programme
  The site of the Concept Research Program, which is financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, focuses on front-end management of major investment projects, seeking to develop the expertise to make more efficient use of resources and improve the effect of major public investments.

04) Research Centers - Peripheral to Major Projects - [Back to Top]

• Center for International Development at Harvard University
  The site of the Center for International Development at Harvard, which was created to serve as Harvard's primary center for research on sustainable international development, offers information about events, research, student programs, and publications of interest to the international development community.
• Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford
  The site of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, a group of more than 150 Stanford faculty, researchers, and visiting scholars, has downloadable (PDF) publications, announcements of new publications, and links to information about research in Institute's focus areas of democracy, development, and rule of law; environmental science and policy; health policy; international security and cooperation; and the Asia-Pacific region.
• IRIS Center at the University of Maryland
  This site, developed by a research and advisory center located in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland that seeks to understand and facilitate economic growth and democratic development in poor and transition countries by focusing on the role of institutions, offers articles about economic and institution analysis, enterprise development, governance and civil society, and legal and regulatory reform around the world.
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Web Site
  This site offers links to education, research, and publications related to the Lincoln Institute's focus, which is to improve the quality of public debate and decisions in the areas of land policy and land-related taxation.
• Ronald Coase Institute
  This is a list of links of interest to researchers of institutions - laws, rules, customs, and norms - that govern real economic systems.
• The Center for Public Integrity
  This is the site of the Center for Public Integrity, which conducts investigative journalism, offers a profiles of companies that receive government contracts, providing information about contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan in particular, listing the names of company principals, directors on the board, contract history, political contributions, and ties to government officials.
• The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
  The site of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California, which facilitates innovative, rigorous research into the causes of international conflict and cooperation, offers information about its publications, which include conference reports, policy papers, policy briefs, NEWSWired, an annual report, and an electronic newsletter.
• The William Davidson Institute
  This is a database of global business and environment indexes alphabetized by producer.