Author: National Steering Committee ISBN: 0727731831 / 9780727731838 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The majority of multi-storey car parks in the UK are constructed of reinforced concrete and have been designed to normal building standards. However, car park structures are subjected to more severe...
Author: , Ian Mockett ISBN: 0727731645 / 9780727731647 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The cost of ever more freguent floods, landslides and erosion on coastal and fluvial structures is considerable. Through more detailed consideration of the risks and their acceptability, the enginee...
Author: Guy Cottam ISBN: 0727731475 / 9780727731470 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
This book is a simple, practical guide to the effects of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, and the Scheme for Construction Contracts which is a Regulation produced under th...
Author: Dr. Jon Broome ISBN: 072773136X / 9780727731364 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
This book is aimed at those who want to apply or improve the application of partnering in the construction and heavy engineering industries to their projects. It focuses on procurement aspects based...
Author: Leslie Edwards, Richard N M Anderson ISBN: 0727731092 / 9780727731098 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Adjudication provisions are now a fundamental part of construction contracts. A clear and concise understanding of the adjudication process is therefore essential. Practical adjudication for constru...
Author: Chimay J Anumba, John M Kamara, Nosa F Evbuomwan ISBN: 0727731033 / 9780727731036 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
At the heart of the construction industry are the clients, who initiate and finance construction projects. The acknowledged importance of clients as the driving force in the construction industry ha...
Author: Geoffrey Hawker ISBN: 0727730452 / 9780727730459 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides an easy to use, clause-by-clause comparison of the changes between the 1st edition and the 2nd edition of the ICE Design and Construct Conditions of Contract.
This essential vo...
Author: A Baldwin, A Thorpe, D Root, D Thomson, J Hammond, M Murray, S Austin ISBN: 0727730398 / 9780727730398 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Design chains presents innovative new thinking in supply chain management. Springing from the work of the Integrated Collaborative Design (ICD) research project, a combined industry and academic ini...
Author: Richard N. M. Anderson ISBN: 0727729977 / 9780727729972 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
As the use of contracts grows within the construction industry there will inevitable be a rise in the number of disputes. This book clears a path through the potential minefield of dispute managemen...
Author: Nigel A Standing ISBN: 0727730304 / 9780727730305 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Value management incentive programmes and clauses are a powerful mechanism for allowing continuity of contractors’ input throughout a project delivery. The fact that incentive programmes have ...
Author: David Hodgkinson ISBN: 0727730223 / 9780727730220 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Local Government is under ever increasing pressure to operate effectively and economically. The current Best Value regime means that both value for money and the imperative of continuously improving...
Author: Ted Hutchin ISBN: 0727729799 / 9780727729798 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This book represents a new voice in the drive for enterprise thinking within organisations. Although Enterprise Resource Planning and similar approaches are now commonplace in industry they continue...
Author: Shamil Naoum ISBN: 0727728741 / 9780727728746 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
People are at the heart of any organization and a good understanding of how they interact with the structure as a whole is an essential ingredient for an organization’s success. This new book ...
Author: T. M. Hutchin ISBN: 0727730169 / 9780727730169 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Every organisation faces constraints which may seem insurmountable. The Theory of Constraints argues that the number of constraints is limited and can be identified through the application of a robu...
Author: Hamilton ISBN: 0727734970 / 9780727734976 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Managing Projects for success is a 'how to do it' book of considerable value to practitioners and students alike. It provides the challenge of theory application through a series of exercises and is...
Author: Jim Parkin ISBN: 0727728733 / 9780727728739 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
This book explores the nature of professional judgement and how it is used in planning, design and management. It is based on two decades of research on the psychology of judgement and its applicati...
Author: David Blockley ISBN: 0727727486 / 9780727727480 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
"This is a serious and impressive work... It will help those who are committed to changing the industry to create structures to do so, whether in one area or in totality. It offers a whole range of ...
Author: David Crosthwaite, Ranko Bon ISBN: 0727727494 / 9780727727497 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
What is the relationship between construction activity and economic development? Are they positively or negatively related, or is the relationship more complex? Does the role of construction change ...
Author: Tim Cole ISBN: 072772746X / 9780727727466 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
The construction industry is redefining effective partnering through the implementation of common information exchange standards - and no one can afford to be left behind.
In a text that is steer...
Author: James Mather, Tim Cornick ISBN: 0727727451 / 9780727727459 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book addresses the important issues involved in forming effective and profitable teams for construction projects - both within and between client, design and construction firms.
It is divide...
Author: James Armstrong, Ross Dixon, Simon Robinson ISBN: 072772598X / 9780727725981 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book examines the problems involved in making engineering decisions that affect the quality of life of large numbers of people worldwide and presents the individual, family, community and globa...
Author: Trevor Holroyd ISBN: 0727727362 / 9780727727367 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
Newly qualified engineers often find that the skills required when they enter the workplace are different from the skills they learnt throughout their education and training. This may result in them...
Author: John Timpson ISBN: 0727726722 / 9780727726728 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book will serve as a practical guide to construction adjudication for those involved with construction disputes. It will also serve as an essential reference for training adjudicators. It cover...
Author: Adrian Smith ISBN: 0727727125 / 9780727727121 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book examines the major aspects of the relationship between government and the private sector in the provision of high quality, sustainable, and affordable privately funded infrastructure proje...
Author: Ian Ingram, Laurence Marsh, Roger Flanagan ISBN: 0727727141 / 9780727727145 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
'This report provides a vision of construction in 2010. I do hope you will read this report and develop specific ideas which you feel are relevant to your organisation, and use them to build your ow...
