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.
Sustainable Design and Construction in Africa: A System Dynamics Approach
1st Edition
By Oluwaseun Dosumu, Clinton Aigbavboa
June 30, 2021
This book addresses some of the countless challenges faced by developing countries when adopting sustainable design and construction and offers suggestions for the way forward for African development projects.The authors argue that the pervasive non-consideration of the interrelationship between ...
Fall Prevention Through Design in Construction: The Benefits of Mobile Computing
1st Edition
By Imriyas Kamardeen
December 18, 2020
The role of designers has traditionally been to design a building so that it conforms to accepted local building codes. The safety of workers is left up to the contractor building the designs. Research shows, however, that designers can have an especially strong influence on construction safety ...
Funding and Financing Transport Infrastructure: Business Models to Enhance and Enable Financing of Infrastructure in Transport
1st Edition
Edited
By Athena Roumboutsos, Hans Voordijk, Aristeidis Pantelias
December 18, 2020
This book seeks to enhance understanding of the impacts of project setup and its implementation environment on project performance by leveraging information from the study of a rich set of European transport infrastructure project cases. It puts forward a system’s view of project delivery and aims ...
Leadership and Sustainability in the Built Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Alex Opoku, Vian Ahmed
December 18, 2020
Leadership and sustainability have separately been the subject of numerous studies in a built environment context over the years, but they have yet to be addressed together. The real impact of legislation and guidelines designed to promote sustainability within the construction industry is closely ...
Target Cost Contracting Strategy in Construction: Principles, Practices and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Daniel W.M. Chan, Joseph H.L. Chan
December 18, 2020
The problems inherent in the traditional design-bid-build procurement method often lead to the adversarial working relationships within the construction industry. Target cost contracts, accompanied by a gain-share/pain-share arrangement serving as a cost incentive mechanism, have emerged in ...
Valuing People in Construction
1st Edition
Edited
By Fidelis Emuze, John Smallwood
December 18, 2020
Valuing People in Construction provides contemporary perspectives on the ‘glue’ that binds the construction process together; people. The book addresses people issues in the construction industry where behavioural outcomes impact upon business and project performance. The main proposition of the ...
Free-Standing Tension Structures: From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems
1st Edition
By Binbing Wang
December 12, 2019
Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method of producing such spaces. They also enable the creation of different shaped spaces allowing architects more scope for ...
Performance-Based Optimization of Structures: Theory and Applications
1st Edition
By Qing Quan Liang
December 12, 2019
Performance-Based Optimization of Structures introduces a method to bridge the gap between structural optimization theory and its practical application to structural engineering. The Performance-Based Optimization (PBO) method combines modern structural optimisation theory with performance based ...
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 ...