Books in the Spon Research series

Focusing on office buildings, this explores how green building development can be managed to achieve successful project outcomes, allowing project decision-makers such as clients and project team members to consider identified success conditions. Findings can inform future research for more efficient development of green building projects.

This book presents a research-led approach to identifying the massive opportunities that BIM and AI offer to sustainable design and strategies.

Do recent moves in the construction industry towards collaborative working and other new procurement procedures really make good business sense? Addressing this question, this book includes the categorizing of the differences between various procurement methods.

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. It develops a System Dynamics model of the relationship between the elements of sustainable design and construction and provides t

The book provides a detailed examination of the drivers for innovation in construction, engineering and infrastructure organisations. In particular, the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored.

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 linked to the leadership behind it, as this book

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 book is that as

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 to serve as a strategic tool for decision makers

This book documents the experiences, development and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

Performance-Based Optimization of Structures introduces a method to bridge the gap between structural optimization theory and its practical application to structural engineering.

Using the construction industry as the subject of research, this book traces the development of the literature on organisational culture and business effectiveness. It investigates the culture-performance link using an objective measure of company performance and an evaluation of organisational culture, which is largely behaviourally-based.

Shows how the concept of knowledge can make sense in the construction industry, an industry which can be viewed in essence as being engaged in the material transformation of 'nature into buildings'. This book explores different businesses including a medium sized construction firm, and Wingardh Architecture, Sweden's prestigious architecture firm.

Aims to promote the benefits of innovation, and stimulate innovation capability within and between small and medium sized construction. This book addresses issues including what is the motivation to innovate? what is appropriate innovation? how can small construction firms create, manage and exploit innovation? and others.

Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the challenge of a hot or humid climate. This book explores the complex relationships between climate, buildings and plants, especially in urban heat islands. It is useful for researchers and professionals such as architects, architectural science, and landscape architects.

Looks at employee resourcing in-depth, both analytically and in order to provide a practical insight into the strategic considerations and operational approaches which modern large contractors take in deploying their human resources. This work is suitable for both students and managers.

Details 'everyday' experiences and procurement decisions made by people in firms in the industry related to projects as they seek out other firms to work with during the tendering stage. This work introduces a new model for mapping the construction sector of particular interest to construction management and to procurement decision makers.

This book highlights the connectivity of construction actors, resources, and activities as fundamental for understanding how innovation takes place, and how it can be pushed forward.

This wide-ranging study of crucial procurement issues includes international historical context, collaboration and risk management, with a focus on sustainable procurement approaches. The international significance of public-private partnerships and relationship-based procurement approaches is reinforced with case study examples from the UK, Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific regions.

The book provides a detailed examination of the drivers for innovation in construction, engineering and infrastructure organisations. In particular, the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored.

Making buildings and infrastructure more sustainable represents a key and global challenge. This presents the results of research from the Australia Co-operative Research Centre for Construction Innovation, covering four themes, applied to regeneration as well as to new build: Sustainable Materials and Manufactures; Virtual Design, Construction and Management; Integrating Design, Construction and Facility Management over the Project Life Cycle; and Integration across spatial scales.