How can innovation in the construction industry be strengthened? What instruments and approaches are being used by governments to promote it? What works and under what circumstances? These key questions have profound implications. This book presents a framework for the analysis of innovation models and systems in construction and an international comparison of these systems, with a focus on their application in practical policy development.
How can innovation in the construction industry be strengthened? What instruments and approaches are being used by governments to promote it? What wor...
Building Education and Research explores this new active area of research in a series of papers by internationally acclaimed experts, presented at the CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research held in July 1998 (BEAR 98) in Brisbane, Australia. Sponsored in collaboratio jointly by the Queensland University of Technology, the Conseil International du Batiment (CIB) and the Australian Institute of Building (AIB), the conference was organised around the theme Building Research and Education Beyond 2000' and looks at the factors that are changing the...
Building Education and Research explores this new active area of research in a series of papers by internationally acclaimed experts, present...
There is clearly potential for the industrial production of open buildings - namely buildings where the parts which makeup the whole are designed to allow a high degree freedom for layout, construction and adaptation. Industrialized open building has the potential to radically cut building costs and construction time. This book focuses on product and production systematics and information systematics, and begins with an extensive survey of the field by the editor. The second part consists of a series of descriptions of the experience of different countries, and chapters on particular themes....
There is clearly potential for the industrial production of open buildings - namely buildings where the parts which makeup the whole are designed to a...
Based on research by the CIB's W92 Procurement Systems Working Group, this volume deals with best practice in construction procurement, the process by which customers of the construction industry go about procuring new facilities. The whole spectrum of procurement issues, starting with the client or customer and running through managerial, cultural and IT-based issues, is covered. Prefaced with an overview of previous work and a section on selection criteria, practitioneers can make their choices of procurement form. An appendix on procurement games and cases which will allow the reader to...
Based on research by the CIB's W92 Procurement Systems Working Group, this volume deals with best practice in construction procurement, the process by...
This comparative international review of law and practice liability describes the framework in which lawyers, insurers, contractors and clients dealing with liability operate. The act of building involves risk and, in the case of damages occurring after construction, it is often hard to identify responsibility. This will be an essential reference for construction lawyers, insurers and other senior practitioners and managers in industry, based on research and analysis by CIB (Conseil International du Batiment) as part of the CIB series programme.
This comparative international review of law and practice liability describes the framework in which lawyers, insurers, contractors and clients dealin...
The application of construction dispute procedures has changed dramatically in the last decade. This has resulted in an increased use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in many countries, and mediation in particular. Construction is one of the major industries using mediation, in the UK and in many other countries such as the US, China, Australia and New Zealand. This expansion in mediation has been helped by encouragement from governments, although it takes diverse forms in different legal jurisdictions, for example: court rules to encourage this use (as in the US and UK); the courts' own...
The application of construction dispute procedures has changed dramatically in the last decade. This has resulted in an increased use of Alternativ...
