The Connectivity of Innovation in the Construction Industry

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• The construction industry is currently experiencing accelerating developments concerning societal demands along with project complexity, international... Lees meer

Very Large Floating Structures

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• Groundbreaking and comprizing articles by expert contributors, this volume provides a comprehensive treatment of VLFSs and their relationship with the... Lees meer

Communication in Construction Teams

Stephen Emmitt, Christopher Gorse

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• Construction teams are usually complex, interdisciplinary and temporary, and, as such, the need for effective communication is crucial. However, publi... Lees meer

Collaborative Construction Information Management

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• Most construction projects are large and costly. Collaborative working involves two or more stakeholders sharing their efforts and resources to comple... Lees meer

Tropical Urban Heat Islands

Nyuk Hien Wong, Yu Chen

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate problem is compounded in so-called... Lees meer

Risk Management in Engineering and Construction

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• Today's businesses are driven by customer 'pull' and technological 'push'. To remain competitive in this dynamic business world, engineering and const... Lees meer

Understanding Organisational Culture in the Construction Industry

Vaughan Coffey

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• Since the early 1980s, researchers and practitioners in the organisational and management fields have presumed a link between organisational, or corpo... Lees meer

Target Cost Contracting Strategy in Construction

Daniel W M Chan, Joseph H L Chan

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• The problems inherent in the traditional design-bid-build procurement method often lead to the adversarial working relationships within the constructi... Lees meer

Trust in Construction Projects

Anita Ceric

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• The relationship between project managers representing project owners and those on the contractor side is often threatened by communication risk. The ... Lees meer

Funding and Financing Transport Infrastructure

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• This book seeks to enhance understanding of the impacts of project setup and its implementation environment on project performance by leveraging infor... Lees meer

The Connectivity of Innovation in the Construction Industry

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• The construction industry is currently experiencing accelerating developments concerning societal demands along with project complexity, international... Lees meer

Procurement in the Construction Industry

William Hughes, Patricia M Hillebrandt, David Greenwood

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• Do recent moves in the construction industry towards collaborative working and other new procurement procedures really make good business sense? Procu... Lees meer

Construction Safety, Health and Well-Being in the Covid-19 Era

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relatio... Lees meer

New Forms of Procurement

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• This wide-ranging study of crucial procurement issues includes international historical context, collaboration and risk management, with a focus on su... Lees meer

Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them mor... Lees meer

Employee Resourcing in the Construction Industry

Ani Raiden, Andrew Dainty, Richard Neale

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• Construction is one of the most challenging industrial environments for effective people management. It is characterised by geographically dispersed p... Lees meer

Improving the Performance of Construction Industries for Developing Countries

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries. It will provide a stron... Lees meer

Communication in Construction Teams

Stephen Emmitt, Christopher Gorse

• Hardcover | Spon Research
• Provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on interpersonal communication and delivers a critical review of various research methods previous... Lees meer

Construction Health and Safety in Developing Countries

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• The global construction sector is infamous for high levels of injuries, accidents and fatalities, and poor health and well-being of its workforce. Whi... Lees meer

Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment

Natalya Sergeeva

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications ... Lees meer

People and Culture in Construction

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• Construction is one of the largest and most people-intensive industrial sectors. In many countries, however, construction is also one of the most high... Lees meer

Leadership and Sustainability in the Built Environment

• Hardcover | Engels | Spon Research
• Leadership and sustainability have separately been the subject of numerous studies in a built environment context over the years, but they have yet to... Lees meer

Performance-Based Optimization of Structures

Qing Quan Liang

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• Performance-Based Optimization of Structures introduces a method to bridge the gap between structural optimization theory and its practical applicatio... Lees meer

Improving the Performance of Construction Industries for Developing Countries

• Paperback | Engels | Spon Research
• This book documents the experiences, development and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries. Lees meer