Building and civil engineering construction projects - a specific analysis?

With the objective of identifying future specific features of building construction and civil engineering projects and their implication in forming methodologies suitable for their analysis, there follows a short presentation of the concept of the investment project, of the various types of appreciation and of the different criteria and levels of overall evaluation available. From this and by comparing typical industrial projects, we hope to adapt the traditional building construction project methodologies, and conclude that analysis is superior to evaluation and that there is need for a much tighter schedule. It should be noted that these leads are only preliminary and are pointers to further investigation.