Performance Improvement in Construction Management

Brian Atkin, Jan Borgbrant

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781135998356
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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 industry and the academic and research communities. Many of the authors have worked in technology transfer, as change agents, resolving industrially-relevant problems by using scientifically-based research. The book reveals the source of ideas, data and results to provide a useful resource for researchers, academics and graduate students, and a challenging guide for senior industry managers.

Table of contents

• Spon Research
• Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• 1 Steps toward improving performance in construction management
• 2 Clients as initiators of change
• 3 Stakeholder engagement in real estate development
• 4 A systems approach to construction supply chain integration
• 5 Rethinking communication in the construction industry
• 6 Transfer of experience in a construction firm
• 7 Autonomy and innovation in construction teams
• 8 Foundation of a practical theory of project management
• 9 Role of action research in dealing with a traditional process
• 10 Corporate strategies
• 11 Organizational change in the house-building sector
• 12 Trust production in construction
• 13 Value-based award mechanisms
• 14 Organizational culture in the merger of construction companies
• 15 Environmental attitudes, management and performance
• 16 Stakeholder management through relationship management
• 17 Learning in demonstration projects for sustainable building
• 18 Participative design tools in inner-city redevelopment
• 19 Boundary objects in design
• 20 Methodological and other uncertainties in life cycle costing
• 21 Decision-making practice in the real estate development sector
• 22 Differences in the application of risk management
• 23 Quantitative risk management in construction
• 24 Concentration ratios in the construction market
• References
• Index