Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management: Volume 20 Issue 3

Practitioner understanding of value in the UK building sector

Derek S. Thomson, Simon A. Austin, Grant R. Mills, Hannah Devine‐Wright

For over a decade, UK public sector construction policy and industry rhetoric has advanced a value agenda that advocates the development of project‐specific understanding of…

Developing a planned work process model for housing associations

Hervé Leblanc, Craig Thomson, Iain Cameron, Pollaphat Nitithamyong

Improving process management within construction projects has been the source of academic and policy research for decades, and continues to be today. This paper seeks to focuses…

The social life of the novel idea: what did social psychologists ever do for us?

Jennifer Barrett, Jack Goulding, Pamela Qualter

The purpose of this paper is to present the extant literature relating to the social processes of innovation in built environment design teams. The paper connects the relevant and…

The project insurance option in infrastructure procurement

Issaka Ndekugri, Hannah Daeche, Diwei Zhou

Project insurance is designed to get over the perceived deficiencies of the conventional insurance practice. It involves the entire project supply chain being insured under a…

The need to improve double‐loop learning and design‐construction feedback loops: A survey of industry practice

James R. Henderson, Kirti D. Ruikar, Andrew R.J. Dainty

The purpose of this paper is to report the empirical findings of a survey aimed to investigate the need to improve cross‐phase learning between design and construction. Through…

The effect of cross‐cultural uncertainty and complexity within multicultural construction teams

E.G. Ochieng, A.D.F. Price, X. Ruan, C.O. Egbu, D. Moore

The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges faced by senior construction managers in managing cross‐cultural complexity and uncertainty. The rationale was to identify the…

Editorial

Ronald McCaffer