Building and Construction

Portfolio and Programme Management Demystified

Managing Multiple Projects Successfully, 2nd Edition

By Geoff Reiss, Paul Rayner

You’re now responsible for a programme, or you’ve got a portfolio to manage? Where do you start? Right here! Projects are not simply the bread and butter of an organisation. Form them into programmes or portfolios and they can be prioritised and integrated to deliver change to your organization in...

Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge

Facilities Management and the Business of Managing Assets

By Danny Then Shiem-Shin, Tan Teng Hee

The importance of facilities management to the effective operation of all businesses is now widely accepted. Where there continues to be debate is on what constitutes a successful approach, and how much attention it should be given within an overall business plan. Drawing on both research and...

Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge

OHS Electronic Management Systems for Construction

By Imriyas Kamardeen

Series: Spon Research

Occupational accidents have a massive personal and social cost as well as a major financial cost. The construction industry is one of the most dangerous industries, accounting for around 20–30% of all occupational deaths worldwide. The accompanying financial cost is either absorbed directly or...

Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge

Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction

By Martin Loosemore

Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction integrates insights from business and government leaders with contemporary research, to help construction firms of all sizes to use times of crisis to their own advantage and build greater adaptive capacity into their operations. Accessible and full of...

To Be Published January 6th 2014 by Routledge

Builders

Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry

By Darren Thiel

Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost every country of the world. They construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every day. Yet we know surprisingly little...

Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge

Organization Management in Construction

Edited by Paul S. Chinowsky, Anthony D. Songer

Today’s construction environment is changing at an unprecedented pace and executives are facing a diverse set of issues – globalization, economics, workforce demographics, and technology. Moreover the traditional issues of competition and delivery are being challenged by new laws and new industry...

Published January 11th 2011 by Routledge

Collaborative Working in Construction

Edited by Dino Bouchlaghem

Complications arising from poor collaboration are the source of a variety of the construction industry's biggest problems. It is now widely recognized that an effective collaboration strategy based on the implementation of information systems and careful consideration of the wider...

Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge

Human Resource Management in Construction

Critical Perspectives, 2nd Edition

Edited by Andrew Dainty, Martin Loosemore

The construction sector is one of the most complex and problematic arenas within which to manage people. As a result, the applicability of much mainstream human resource management (HRM) theory to this industry is limited. Indeed, the operational realities faced by construction organizations mean...

Published June 12th 2012 by Routledge

Responsible Corporate Strategy in Construction and Engineering

"Doing the Right Thing?"

By Martin Loosemore, Florence Phua

The role that communities have to play in the evolution and implementation of an effective strategy is often overlooked, despite the fact that it is becoming increasingly important and complex. This book addresses how consulting and contracting firms in the construction and engineering industries...

Published September 5th 2010 by Routledge

Collaborative Construction Information Management

Edited by Geoffrey Shen, Peter Brandon, Andrew Baldwin

Series: Spon Research

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...

Published May 21st 2009 by Routledge

Business Organisation for Construction

By Chris March

With a user-friendly style and a strong theoretical base, Business Organisation for Construction provides readers with the tools required to skillfully and successfully operate a business in today's construction industry. Arranged into three sections, Chris March explains: strategy and vision,...

Published February 8th 2009 by Routledge

Risk: An Introduction

The Concepts of Risk, Danger and Chance

By Ben Ale

Investments, global warming and crossing the road – risk is a factor embedded in our everyday lives but do we really understand what it means, how it is quantified and how decisions are made? In six chapters Ben Ale explains the concepts, methods and procedures for risk analysis and in...

Published April 5th 2009 by Routledge

Employee Resourcing in the Construction Industry

Strategic Considerations and Operational Practice

By Ani Raiden, Andrew Dainty, Richard Neale

Series: Spon Research

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...

Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge

Managing Knowledge in the Construction Industry

By Alexander Styhre

Series: Spon Research

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...

Published February 16th 2009 by Routledge

Managing Work-Life Balance in Construction

By Helen Lingard, Valerie Francis

Work in the construction industry is particularly tough. It demands excessively long hours and frequent weekend work. Other characteristics are particularly marked, such as re-location, job insecurity and distinctive behavioural patterns, which negatively affect employees’ personal lives further....

Published April 5th 2009 by Routledge

Finance and Control for Construction

By Chris March

Drawing on a wealth of practical experience, both in the construction industry and teaching students, Chris March presents this study of construction management and the major aspects of controlling the building process. Covering the stages from the client's initiation, to the final handover of the...

Published February 8th 2009 by Routledge

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Construction Industry

Edited by Michael Murray, Andrew Dainty

The construction process, right through from planning and design to use and demolition, has a major impact on society. Traditionally, concern has been focused on its environmental impact and the quest for sustainability, but this has now extended into the wider remit of Corporate Social...

Published August 27th 2008 by Routledge

Innovation in Small Construction Firms

By Peter Barrett, Martin Sexton, Angela Lee

Series: Spon Research

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....

Published January 9th 2008 by Routledge