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This third book from editors Rick Best and Jim Meikle brings together and presents insights into a number of key concepts in the study of construction firms, projects and the group of activities that loosely define the construction industry.
List of contents
1. Describing construction, Rick Best and Jim Meikle 2. Construction products and producers: one industry, or several?, Jim Meikle and Gerard de Valence. 3. Output and employment in australian built environment industries 2007-2019, Gerard de Valence. 4. Education for collaboration in construction: challenges for universities and institutions, John Connaughton. 5. A guide to construction contracting, Mark Hackett. 6. Construction project procurement: a critical review, Steve Rowlinson. 7. Estimating challenges in the digital era, Pat O'Donnell and Inna Kolyshkina. 8. Defining and describing construction in developing countries, George Ofori. 9. Transforming the construction firm?, Hedley Smyth. 10. The measurement and characteristics of construction firms in theory and practice, Gerard de Valence. 11. Using financial concepts to understand failing construction contractors, Alex Murray and Alexandr Kulakov. 12. The race to the future for the construction sector, Roger Flanagan.
About the author
Rick Best is an Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor of Construction Management and Economics at Bond University. He has produced numerous book chapters and papers over a 25-year career as an academic as well as co-edited five books and co-authored one quantity surveying textbook. His research in recent years focused on the problems associated with making valid comparisons of construction industries across countries, and he contributed to the development of the most recent construction data collection project within the International Comparison Program.
Jim Meikle retired as a partner of Davis Langdon LLP in 2005 and, since then, has worked as an independent consultant with UK government departments and agencies, foreign governments, international organisations including the EU, the World Bank and the African Development Bank, and private clients. His main interests are international comparisons construction industry policy, construction data and international comparisons.
