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Performance Improvement in Construction Management

Edited by Brian Atkin, Jan Borgbrant

Novel research in construction management is often distant from existing practice. This collection of reviews serves to bridge this gap under three major themes: innovation,…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-54598-3 (Taylor & Francis)

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Relational Contracting for Construction Excellence

Principles, Practices and Case Studies

By Albert P. Chan, Daniel W. Chan, John F. Yeung

Improved efficiency and effectiveness in the construction industry provide huge potential savings. Various forms of relational contracting such as partnering, alliancing, public private partnership (PPP),…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46669-1 (Spon Press)

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Location-Based Management for Construction

Planning, scheduling and control

By Russell Kenley, Olli Seppänen

With extensive case studies for illustration, this is a practitioner's guide to an entirely new production system for construction management using flowline scheduling.

Covering the entire…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37050-9 (Spon Press)

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Economics for the Modern Built Environment

Edited by Les Ruddock

Recent decades have seen a major social and economic changes across the developed world and consequent changes in the construction and property industries. The discipline…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45425-4 (Taylor & Francis)

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Construction Economics

A New Approach, 2nd Edition

By Danny Myers

Construction Economics provides students with the principles and concepts underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. The new approach adopts an argument…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46229-7 (Taylor & Francis)

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Construction Cost Management

Learning from Case Studies

By Keith Potts

On time and in budget.

As a construction project manager achieving this, while maintaining quality, is the most valuable package you can offer your clients. Of…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44287-9 (Taylor & Francis)

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Construction Supply Chain Economics

By Kerry London

This is the first comprehensive investigation of the industrial sourcing and procurement practices throughout sixty-eight construction industry supply channels across seven major commodity sectors at…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40971-1 (Taylor & Francis)

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Procurement in the Construction Industry

The Impact and Cost of Alternative Market and Supply Processes

By William Hughes, Patricia M. Hillebrandt, David Greenwood, Wisdom Kwawu

Do recent moves in the construction industry towards collaborative working and other new procurement procedures really make good business sense? Procurement in the Construction Industry

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39560-1 (Taylor & Francis)

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The Construction Sector in the Asian Economies

By Michael Anson, Y.H. Chiang, John Raftery

This collection of essential data on eleven Asian economies outlines new trends and highlighting increasing differences between developed and developing countries. The book features a…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28613-8 (Taylor & Francis)

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Project and Cost Engineers' Handbook, Fourth Edition

4th Edition

By Kenneth K. Humphreys

Making the specifics of a complex concern accessible and its handling quite manageable, this fourth edition of the Project and Cost Engineers' Handbook examines the…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-8247-5746-5 (CRC Press)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment
By Robert Crawford
To be published January 1st 2011

Whole Life Costing: A New Approach
By Peter Caplehorn
To be published January 1st 2011

Modern Construction Economics: New Developments in Theory
Edited by Gerard de Valence
To be published January 2nd 2011

Contemporary Issues in Construction in Developing Countries
Edited by George Ofori
To be published February 1st 2011

Introduction to Building Procurement
By Brian Greenhalgh
To be published February 4th 2011

Risk Management in Engineering and Construction: Tools and Techniques
By Stephen Ogunlana, Prasanta Dey
To be published March 1st 2011

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