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.
Occupational Diseases in the Construction Industry
1st Edition
By Imriyas Kamardeen, Abid Hasan
October 23, 2024
Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers. The research in this book aims to discover occupational...
Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Commercial Buildings: An Analysis for Green-Building Implementation Using A Green Star Rating System
1st Edition
By Cuong N. N. Tran, Vivian W. Y. Tam, Khoa N. Le
August 26, 2024
This book develops a model to evaluate and assess life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions based on typical Australian commercial building design options. It also draws comparisons between some of the many green building rating tools that have been developed worldwide to support sustainable development....
Work Stress Induced Chronic Diseases in Construction: Discoveries using data analytics
1st Edition
By Imriyas Kamardeen
August 26, 2024
This book aims to fill a gap in the current construction health and safety research and discover new knowledge about work stress induced chronic diseases among construction industry professionals. In achieving these aims, the book investigates: the nature and extent of psychosocial stressors ...
Achieving Value for Money in Capital Build Projects
1st Edition
By Angela Vodden, Champika Liyanage, Akintola Akintoye
May 31, 2023
This book is the first to bring together academic and practitioner views of Value for Money (VFM). VFM has been used to assess whether or not an organisation has obtained the maximum benefit within the resources available to it. A concept used by the public sector to assess the benefits of major ...
Improving the Performance of Construction Industries for Developing Countries: Programmes, Initiatives, Achievements and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Pantaleo D. Rwelamila, Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Aziz
May 31, 2023
This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries. It will provide a strong base of reference for countries looking to improve their construction industries as part of their wider economic development programme. The opening...
Corruption in Infrastructure Procurement: Addressing the Dynamic Criticalities
1st Edition
By Emmanuel Kingsford Owusu, Albert P.C. Chan
May 10, 2022
This book presents an extensive study on the extant constructs of corruption in infrastructure-related projects and aims to contribute to the determination and elimination of its incidence and prevalence in infrastructure projects. The book conducts a comprehensive examination of the various ...
Construction Health and Safety in Developing Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Manu, Fidelis Emuze, Tarcisio Abreu Saurin, Bonaventura Hadikusumo
September 30, 2021
The global construction sector is infamous for high levels of injuries, accidents and fatalities, and poor health and well-being of its workforce. While this record appears in both developed and developing countries, the situation is worse in developing countries, where major spending on ...
Contract Law in the Construction Industry Context
1st Edition
By Carl J. Circo
September 30, 2021
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license." This book chronicles how contract cases from the construction industry have influenced, ...
Preventing Workplace Incidents in Construction: Data Mining and Analytics Applications
1st Edition
By Imriyas Kamardeen
September 30, 2021
The construction industry is vital to any national economy; it is also one of the industries most susceptible to workplace incidents. The unacceptably high rates of incidents in construction have huge socio-economic consequences for the victims, their families and friends, co-workers, employers and...
Risk Management in Engineering and Construction: Tools and Techniques
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Ogunlana, Prasanta Kumar Dey
September 30, 2021
Today’s businesses are driven by customer ‘pull’ and technological ‘push’. To remain competitive in this dynamic business world, engineering and construction organizations are constantly innovating with new technology tools and techniques to improve process performance in their projects. Their ...
The Connectivity of Innovation in the Construction Industry
1st Edition
Edited
By Malena Ingemansson Havenvid, Åse Linné, Lena E. Bygballe, Chris Harty
September 30, 2021
The construction industry is currently experiencing accelerating developments concerning societal demands along with project complexity, internationalization and digitalization. In an attempt to grasp the consequences of these demands on productivity and innovation, this edited book addresses how ...
Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment
1st Edition
By Natalya Sergeeva
June 30, 2021
This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers, project managers, academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects, the book ...