Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent Performing Arts buildings with budgets ranging from A3.4 million to over A100 million, Geometry and Atmosphere presents unique and valuable insights into the complex process of building for the arts. Each theatre project, from tailor-made spaces for avant-garde companies to iconic and innovative receiving houses, yields surprising and counter-intuitive findings. For each of the six projects, the authors have interviewed all those involved. Combining these interviews with exhaustive archival research, the authors...
Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent Performing Arts buildings with budgets ranging from A3.4 million to ...
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. Presenting new theoretical and practical insights and models grounded in descriptive case studies, the issues addressed include:
what is the motivation to innovate?
what is appropriate innovation?
how can small construction firms create, manage and exploit...
Innovation in Small Construction Firms promotes the benefits of innovation, and stimulate innovation capability within and between small and medium...
This book focuses on how school facilities can affect children's learning outcomes, identifying parameters that can inform the design, implementation, and supervision of future educational infrastructure projects. It reflects on aspects for which the evidence could be strengthened, and identifies areas for further exploratory work.
This book focuses on how school facilities can affect children's learning outcomes, identifying parameters that can inform the design, implementation,...
