Spon Research
About the Book Series
Spon Research provides a series of advanced books for built environment researchers and professionals from one of the world’s leading publishers.
External Stakeholder Management in Projects
1st Edition
Edited
By Johan Ninan
April 22, 2026
External stakeholders in projects across sectors, such as infrastructure, policy, healthcare, communication, are the set of users, special interest groups and actors that are not a party to the contract but are socially or economically affected by the outcomes of the project. Since these projects ...
Constructing Building Integrity: Raising Standards Through Professionalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Katja Cooper, Hugh Breakey, Charles Sampford, Peter Gow, Keith Hampson
March 11, 2026
Constructing Building Integrity examines how ethical and professional standards can be raised in the residential apartment sector. Recent incidents in a number of countries, culminating in London’s Grenfell Tower inferno that claimed 72 lives, have highlighted systemic failures in the building ...
Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Temitope Omotayo, Temitope Egbelakin, Olabode Ogunmakinde, Adebayo Sojobi
December 26, 2025
Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction Industry examines current and futuristic developments in the construction industry hinged on the construction industrial fourth and fifth revolution, otherwise known as construction industry 4.0 and 5.0. This book provides a wide...
Power in Megaproject Decision-making: A Governmentality Approach
1st Edition
By Jessica Pooi Sun Siva, Thayaparan Gajendran
December 26, 2025
This research-based book critically examines the complex interplay of power relations in decision-making in megaprojects. This book is tailored for academics, students, practitioners, clients, and policymakers and addresses a significant gap in understanding how formal and informal power influences...
Managing Projects with Smart Technologies: Developing Technological Competency for Project Managers
1st Edition
By Bon-Gang Hwang, Jasmine Ngo, Hanjing Zhu
October 27, 2025
With a focus on project managers (PMs) in the construction industry, this book addresses the impact of smart technology applications on project management and examines how technologically competent PMs can be developed for successfully managing and delivering projects with smart technologies. The ...
BIM and Construction Health and Safety: Uncovering, Adoption and Implementation
1st Edition
By Hamed Golzad, Saeed Banihashemi, Carol Hon, Robin Drogemuller
September 29, 2025
This book aims to conceptualise the implementation of building information modelling (BIM) in the workplace health and safety (WHS) management of construction projects to reduce occupational accidents. The safety performance of the construction industry has always been a concern across the globe, ...
Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the COVID-19 era
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Manu, Clara Cheung, Akilu Yunusa-Kaltungo, Fidelis Emuze, Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, Bonaventura H. W. Hadikusumo
September 29, 2025
This edited book presents a significant and timely contribution to our understanding of a broad range of issues pertaining to COVID-19 and its relationship to occupational safety, health and well-being (OSHW) in the global construction industry. The editors first introduce the industry and its poor...
Data-driven BIM for Energy Efficient Building Design
1st Edition
By Saeed Banihashemi, Hamed Golzad, Farzad Pour Rahimian
September 29, 2025
This research book aims to conceptualise the scale and spectrum of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches in energy efficient building design and to develop its functional solutions with a focus on four crucial aspects of building envelop, building layout, ...
Digitalization in Construction: Recent trends and advances
1st Edition
Edited
By Chansik Park, Farzad Pour Rahimian, Nashwan Dawood, Akeem Pedro, Lee Dongmin, Rahat Hussain, Mehrtash Soltani
September 29, 2025
This book highlights the latest trends and advances in applications of digital technologies in construction engineering and management. A collection of chapters is presented, explicating how advanced technological solutions can innovatively address challenges and improve outcomes in the ...
Successful Development of Green Building Projects
1st Edition
By Tayyab Ahmad
September 29, 2025
Focusing on office buildings, this book explores how Green Building (GB) development can be managed to achieve successful project outcomes. The book starts by highlighting the special requirements of GBs which distinguish them from traditional buildings. The book then presents a detailed discussion...
Sustainable Communities through Digital Transformation
1st Edition
By Yusuf Arayici, Niraj Thurairajah, Bimal Kumar
April 29, 2025
This book brings together cutting-edge exploratory research findings to show how a vision for sustainable communities can be enabled by digital transformation. It attempts to apply existing knowledge about digital transformation and sustainable communities and compare, interpret, diagnose, and ...
International Construction Management Research
1st Edition
By Igor Martek
December 30, 2024
This book lays out the evolution of the often contested construction management discipline. How is the field defined? What has been discovered to date? Who are the researchers involved? Where is the research being conducted? What national priorities exist among the many nations now grappling with ...