Construction Management

This new evidence-based book shows how knowledge management can make sense in the construction industry, viewed as being engaged in the material transformation of "nature into buildings". It takes findings from three very different businesses and demonstrates the situational and context-bound nature..

This book presents a theoretical framework which is designed to improve the construction industry's health and safety record. It draws on original research to explain how to integrate OHS management in construction using knowledge management, and web technologies...

User-friendly and rich in anecdotal evidence, Chris March’s new book highlights the issues involved in managing a construction site, from the setting up of a site to the contractor’s responsibility to the environment...

User-friendly and rich in anecdotal evidence, Chris March’s new book highlights the issues involved in managing a construction site, from the setting up of a site to the contractor’s responsibility to the environment...

Partnering is the most effective way of tackling construction projects. This book explains how clients and construction firms using partnering can achieve ever higher levels of efficiency and certainty to provide world class buildings and infrastructure of various kinds. It is suitable for those in ..

Performance Improvement in Construction Management..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Filled with practical advice for all aspects of the site agent's role, this text fills a need for training in this essential subject, to ensure greater efficiency on site and smoother client-contractor relations...

This clear and practical title sets out the effective methodology required to transform sustainable life-cycle management to proactively and holistically protect property value at every stage and includes a description of a prototype IT system...

In contrast to existing texts on project finance that tend to be non-technical and is either procedural or relies heavily on case studies, this text book presents a more analytical perspective without a loss of pragmatism...

In contrast to existing texts on project finance that tend to be non-technical and is either procedural or relies heavily on case studies, this text book presents a more analytical perspective without a loss of pragmatism...

Evidence-based assessment of new procurement processes in relation to collaborative working patterns, weighing up the costs and benefits to the construction industry...