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The construction industry is an information-intensive sector and low levels of productivity are often blamed on inadequate integration of information. This book shows how the different types and sources of information can be integrated to benefit individual construction projects, construction companies and in the construction industry at world-wide level.
The construction industry is an information-intensive sector and low levels of productivity are often blamed on inadequate integration of information. This book shows how the different types and sources of information can be integrated to benefit individual construction projects, construction companies and in the construction industry at world-wide level.
"This book is essential reading for all those who want to remain competitive . those who read [it] will find it not only a mine of useful information, but also a stimulus to change." From the Foreword, by Professor Peter Brandon, University of Salford. After years of being slow to change, the construction industry has finally started to appreciate the importance of information technology as a tool in construction process re-engineering. This book brings together leading academics, construction management practitioners and experts from ITcompanies to show why the new IT technologies and communications are of such importance to the modern construction business. It introduces the concept of str...
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This short, concrete, and to-the-point book guides students through this vast field of conflicting opinions. The book begins from the premise that students benefit most from seeing a balanced treatment of all available views. For instance, this book provides coverage of both ad hoc and optimizing models. It also explores divisions such as flexible price versus sticky price models, rationality versus irrationality, and calibration versus statistical inference. By giving consideration to each of these 'mini debates;, this book shows how each approach has its good and bad points.