Building Down Barriers: A Guide to Construction Best Practice

✍ Scribed by Clive Thom Cain

• Publisher: Spon Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With rapid changes in procurement processes and increasing pressure for improvement, cohesion and efficiency, practitioners need to be aware of industry-wide generally acknowledged best practice. The recent Latham and Egan reports in the UK have spurred further intitiatives from the demand side of the industry to speed the pace of reform. This text examines those new initiatives, clearly explaining and comparing them with each other and with similar initiatives from other countries such as the USA or Singapore, and painting a vivid picture of the future of the construction industry under the effects of such changes. Aimed at anyone involved in construction supply chain from supplier to end user.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
About the author......Page 8
The six goals of construction best practice......Page 10
Introduction......Page 11
Seventy years of customer demand for improvement......Page 14
The international demand for improvement......Page 19
The three UK best practice standards and their six goals......Page 27
The virtual firm......Page 36
Motivating and leading radical improvement......Page 51
Becoming a best practice client......Page 62
Integrating the design and construction team......Page 91
Ensuring the delight of the end users......Page 125
Selecting the independent experts......Page 132
The benefits of best practice and the risk of ignoring change......Page 138
Further reading......Page 143
Index......Page 150