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.
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 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 ...
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...