Haugbolle / Haugbølle / Boyd Clients and Users in Construction

Agency, Governance and Innovation
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-29005-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten

Clients have been identified as critical for building delivery but have been under-researched with only a few studies about them. This book is seeking to address this gap.

A deeper look into the nature of construction clients and their relation to building users exposes more fundamental questions related to the activity of building and the activity in the building. These fundamental questions include "how clients get what they want", "how clients cope with the building process", and "how clients are being shaped by building(s)".

This book on clients and users is structured around three main themes: agency, governance and innovation.

- The first theme is concerned with the classical agency/structure dichotomy on actions, roles and responsibilities or put differently, how actors can act freely or are bounded by structural constraints.

- The second theme is related to the interplay between clients and the supply system: clients govern the supply system but at the same time they are governed by the supply system through different processes and mechanisms.

- The third theme deals with construction innovation and what part clients and users play in this struggle between change and stability.

The book includes theoretical and conceptual frameworks on what constitutes clients and users as well as case studies on R&D themes of relevance to practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haugbolle, Kim

Haugbølle, Kim

Boyd, David

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: three research themes 1. The merits of client associations 2. A model of clients and users: a corporate real estate view 3. Users in low energy buildings: consequences for clients 4. An ethical foundation for health and safety 5. A review of funding and its implications for construction clients 6. Defects and insurance: protective mechanism or driver of change 7. Construction management capabilities of clients: a methodology for assessment 8. Client learning across major infrastructure projects 9. Quality and satisfaction with constructed roads in Nigeria: the clients’ view 10. Stimulating innovation through integrated procurement: the case of three-envelope tendering 11. BIM for clients: developing digital dividends 12. Innovation roles for clients: implementing building information modelling 13. Client innovation networks 14. Postscript: facing the changing world of clients and users

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Haugbølle conducts advisory services to the Danish government, undertakes teaching, and develops research-based knowledge to improve the built environment. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 publications on the role of the construction client focusing on innovation, procurement, building performance, life cycle economics and sustainable design. Kim has been involved in the coordination and management of several national and international R&D projects, and has been heading the secretariat of a think tank and a research department. Kim is the international co-coordinator of the CIB Working Commission W118 on Clients and Users in Construction as well as a member of the Nordic researchers’ network on construction economics and organisation (CREON).

David Boyd has a background in engineering, but is better known for his management insights of the industry. His major contribution has been to develop a model of projects in the industry as complex adaptive socio-technical systems. He has completed research on construction clients which was published as a book and adopted by the Construction Clients Forum. He is developing research into practice through the philosophy of expertise-in-context and is currently researching the challenges of connecting human and information perspectives in BIM. David is the international co-coordinator of the CIB Working Commission W118 on Clients and Users in Construction.