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Building in Value
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Edited By
Rick Best, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney
Gerard de Valence, The Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney
Description
The design and construction of buildings is a lengthy and expensive process, and those who commission buildings are continually looking
for ways to improve the efficiency of the process. In this book, the second in the Building in Value series, a broad range of topics
related to the processes of design and construction are explored by an international group of experts. The overall aim of the book is
to look at ways that clients can improve the value for money outcomes of their decisions to construct buildings.
The book is aimed at
students studying in many areas related to the construction industry including architecture, construction management, civil engineering
and quantity surveying, and should also be of interest to many in the industry including project managers, property developers, building
contractors and cost engineers.
Audience
Postgraduate and senior undergraduate students of construction management and related subjects. Professional construction managers, project
managers, architects, services engineers, quantity surveyors, cost engineers and facilities managers.
Contents
1. Introduction : Innovation in Design and Construction
2. Industry Performance and Innovation
Part 1 Design and Construction
3. Architectural
design 1970-2000 (a review of post-modern/high tech architecture since 1970: Venturi, Moore, Graves, Piano, Foster, Rodgers etc)
4. Generation
and assessment of alternative solutions
5. Design practice and management
6. Embodied energy, material selection, design for deconstruction
7. Energy issues (modelling, assessment of design alternatives, compliance with codes, prescription and performance)
8. Controls and
approvals (building codes, statutory requirements, heritage and conservation controls, compliance)
Part 2 - Project Procurement and
Management
8. Project finance and procurement
9. Project management and construction management (broad view of the processes and procedures)
10. Construction contracts and risk allocation
11. Site remediation (contaminated sites, geotechnical investigation)
12. Lean construction
13. Project planning (scheduling of construction activities, 4D planning, computer based scheduling)
14. Cost control, monitoring and
reporting (cash flows, cost planning, cost modelling, financial reporting)
15. Quality assurance during design and construction (discussion
of the various ISO standards relating to QA and their application and relevance to construction)
16. Performance measurement
17. Supply
chain management
18. Co-ordination of on-site activities (computer modelling, services co-ordination)
19. Administration of building
contracts (variations, delays, tendering, tender evaluation, subcontracts, novation)
20. Site safety
21. Waste management
Part 3 -
Innovation
23. Innovation - A Note of Caution
24. Intelligent buildings (communications, services, BEMS, BMS)
25. Future technologies
(prefabrication, industrialized building, new materials and technologies)
26. Robotics and automated building systems
27. New trends
in building services (including passive engineering, information technology, cabling)
Conclusion
28. The crystal ball (some thoughts
on future directions and developments in global construction)
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 504 pages, publication date: SEP-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5149-3
ISBN-10: 0-7506-5149-0
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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