Making sense of construction improvement
Publication details: New York Routledge 2024Edition: Ed.2Description: xxi,344pISBN:- 9781032301334
- 690.068 GRE
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Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Technology | 690.068 GRE | Available | 026441 |
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables and Boxes ix
Preface to First Edition (2011) x
Preface to Second Edition (2023) xviii
1.Construction in the Age of the Planned Economy 1
2. The Dawn of Enterprise 20
3.Leanness and Agility in Construction 43
4. The Improvement Agenda Takes Shape 67
5. Rethinking Construction 92
6. From Business Process Re-Engineering to Partnering 119
7. Lean Construction 150
8. From Enterprise to Social Partnership 176
9. Dilemmas Austerity 210
10. The Age of Permacrisis 239
11. A Prevailing Sense of Permacrisis 270
12. Unfulfilled Dreams of Technological Optimism 304
Epilogue 335
Index 337
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