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.
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...
Data-driven BIM for Energy Efficient Building Design
1st Edition
By Saeed Banihashemi, Hamed Golzad, Farzad Pour Rahimian
December 16, 2022
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, ...
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 ...
New Forms of Procurement: PPP and Relational Contracting in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus C. Jefferies, Steve Rowlinson
July 27, 2018
The last three decades have seen the evolution of Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) and Relationship Contracting (RC) as alternative procurement approaches to traditional methods of delivering public infrastructure. The potential for growth in these new forms of procurement has led to an on-going ...
Containment of High-Level Radioactive and Hazardous Solid Wastes with Clay Barriers
1st Edition
By Raymond N. Yong, Roland Pusch, Masashi Nakano
May 31, 2017
One of the principal objections to or problems with the use of nuclear fuel is that a proven method for safe disposal of spent nuclear fuel has yet to be established. The central focus of most schemes underway to dispose of these high-level radioactive wastes relies on clay-based buffers and ...
Technology, Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Newton, Keith Hampson, Robin Drogemuller
November 18, 2016
Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid ...
Performance Improvement in Construction Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Atkin, Jan Borgbrant
July 27, 2016
Novel research in construction management is often distant from existing practice. This collection of reviews serves to bridge this gap under three major themes: innovation, organisation and human behaviour, and methods and tools. It outlines a series of successful collaborative projects between ...
Concurrent Engineering in Construction Projects
1st Edition
Edited
By Chimay Anumba, John M. Kamara, Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle
July 15, 2016
Concurrent Engineering (CE) is a systematic approach to the integrated and concurrent design of products and related processes, including aspects as diverse as manufacture and support. It is only now being carefully applied to the construction sector and offers considerable potential for increasing...
Managing Knowledge in the Construction Industry
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre
July 08, 2016
Knowledge management presents a new way of understanding organizations and companies, and is especially suited to sophisticated and highly technical firms and operations such as those in the construction industry. This new book draws on hard data from three separate research programs in ...
Collaborative Construction Information Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Q. P. Shen, Peter Brandon, Andrew Baldwin
May 13, 2016
Most construction projects are large and costly. Collaborative working involves two or more stakeholders sharing their efforts and resources to complete the project more effectively and efficiently. Collaborative, integrative and multi-disciplinary teams can tackle the complex issues involved in ...
Innovation in Small Construction Firms
1st Edition
By Peter Barrett, Martin Sexton, Angela Lee
May 13, 2016
Innovation in Small Construction Firms promotes the benefits of innovation, and stimulate innovation capability within and between small and medium sized (SMEs) construction firms in an effort to bring in a new 'can innovate, should innovate, want to innovate' culture to the construction industry. ...
Employee Resourcing in the Construction Industry: Strategic Considerations and Operational Practice
1st Edition
By Ani Raiden, Andrew Dainty, Richard Neale
April 27, 2016
Construction is one of the most challenging industrial environments for effective people management. It is characterised by geographically dispersed projects, production-oriented management styles, long working hours, high levels of staff turnover and employment practices grounded in the ...