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.
People and Culture in Construction: A Reader
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Dainty, Stuart Green, Barbara Bagilhole
December 18, 2015
Construction is one of the largest and most people-intensive industrial sectors. In many countries, however, construction is also one of the most highly criticized in terms of its employment practices and industrial relations. People and culture are too often seen as variables that must be ...
Tropical Urban Heat Islands: Climate, Buildings and Greenery
1st Edition
By Nyuk Hien Wong, Yu Chen
December 18, 2015
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 Urban Heat Islands, urban areas where the air can be 3–5°C hotter than its surrounding areas and where pollution levels are consequently raised. ...
Trust in Construction Projects
1st Edition
By Anita Cerić
December 08, 2015
The relationship between project managers representing project owners and those on the contractor side is often threatened by communication risk. The main communication risk minimization strategy in the construction phase is trust, which plays a major role in the success of key working ...
Communication in Construction Teams
1st Edition
By Stephen Emmitt, Christopher Gorse
November 24, 2015
Construction teams are usually complex, interdisciplinary and temporary, and, as such, the need for effective communication is crucial. However, published data regarding the manner in which individuals interact within the temporary project team is scarce, with little other than anecdotal evidence ...
Procurement in the Construction Industry: The Impact and Cost of Alternative Market and Supply Processes
1st Edition
By William Hughes, Patricia M. Hillebrandt, David Greenwood, Wisdom Kwawu
November 24, 2015
Do recent moves in the construction industry towards collaborative working and other new procurement procedures really make good business sense? Procurement in the Construction Industry is the result of research into this question and it includes the first rigorous categorizing of ...
Relational Contracting for Construction Excellence: Principles, Practices and Case Studies
1st Edition
By Albert Chan, Daniel W Chan, John F Yeung
November 24, 2015
Improved efficiency and effectiveness in the construction industry provide huge potential savings. Various forms of relational contracting such as partnering, alliancing, public private partnership (PPP), and joint venture are good examples of this. Relational Contracting for Construction ...
Construction Supply Chain Economics
1st Edition
By Kerry London
February 27, 2015
This is the first comprehensive investigation of the industrial sourcing and procurement practices throughout sixty-eight construction industry supply channels across seven major commodity sectors at all levels. London presents real-world case studies to combine theory and practice to describe...
Understanding Organisational Culture in the Construction Industry
1st Edition
By Vaughan Coffey
February 27, 2015
Since the early 1980s, researchers and practitioners in the organisational and management fields have presumed a link between organisational, or corporate, culture and organisational performance. Whilst many believe this exists, other authors have been critical of the validity of such studies. Part...