Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to the Construction Industry

ISBN-13: 9781032360591 / Miękka / 2023 / 206 str.

Michael Siebert

Opis

Using the broken UK housing sector as a case study, Mike Siebert applies a Systems Thinking approach to tackling some of the shared Wwicked Pproblems faced by an industry which that urgently needs to change direction. Essential reading for all construction industry stakeholders.

Spis treści

Part I - What are we trying to do; What’s stopping us?; How could we approach it differently

Chapter 1 – Defining the Sectors

Chapter 2 – Drivers for Change: The government perspective on what the industry needs to do

Chapter 3 – Barriers to Change: The industry perspective on what the government needs to understand

Chapter 4 – The Methodology for Change

Part II - What ‘approaching it differently’ could achieve

Chapter 5 – Political Intervention: pushing the right buttons at the right time

Chapter 6 – Industry Intervention: changing the message to fit the audience

Chapter 7 – The Missing Tools: the tools we need, how to build them, and how to promote them

Chapter 8 – Applying these tools to solve the Housing Industry’s crisis

O autorze

Mike Siebert is a practising architect, active researcher and founder of Ecologic Homes Consultancy Ltd. He has advised Nottingham City Council, lectured and tutored at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent Univerisy, and worked with the Construction Innovation Hub to help deliver the UK government’s latest initiatives aimed at transforming the construction industry, including the Platform Design Approach and the Value Toolkit.