Measuring Construction: Prices, Output and Productivity

ISBN-13: 9780367738341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 278 str.

Rick Best; Jim Meikle

Opis

Explores fundamental economic theories and concepts with respect to the construction industry, and explains how to avoid pitfalls by looking at real life examples.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Setting the scene  2. Background to Purchasing Power Parity Indices  3. International construction cost comparisons  4. The International Comparison Program and purchasing power parities for construction  5. A Review of Construction Cost and Price Indices in Britain  6. Measuring and comparing construction activity internationally  7. Internationalization of the construction industry  8. Performance measures for construction  9. Refining the citiBLOC Index  10. A review of the theory and measurement techniques of productivity in the construction industry  11. Construction Productivity and Cost Estimation using Artificial Neural Networks  12. Determining levels of productivity in the construction industry using Data Envelopment Analysis  13. Endnote

O autorze

Rick Best is Associate Professor of Construction Management and Economics at Bond University. He has produced numerous book chapters and papers over a 20 year career as an academic as well as co-editing three books and co-authoring two quantity surveying textbooks. He was the founding director of the Centre for Comparative Construction Research. His research over the past ten years has been focused on the problems associated with making valid comparisons of construction industries across countries and has contributed to the development of the most recent construction data collection project within the International Comparison Program.

Jim Meikle has a part-time chair in construction economics at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College, London (UCL). He also works as an independent consultant, having retired as a partner of Davis Langdon LLP in 2005. He has extensive experience in the management and implementation of construction, consultancy and research projects and programmes and has worked for private clients and government departments in the UK and other countries, and for international organisations. His interests include international comparisons, the structure and operation of construction industries and construction industry statistics. Jim is a non-executive director with Alexi Marmot Associates (AMA), a trustee of the Usable Buildings Trust and an adjunct professor at Bond University.