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COBRA 1999 Proceedings [electronic resource]

By: Language: English ISBN:
  • 0854069682
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Partial contents:
Absolute indicators of sustainable construction -- An integrated framework for life cycle costings in buildings -- Best practice for multi-project management in the construction industry -- Briefing and Design: The role of creativity -- Building performance evaluation in higher education properties: Towards a process model -- Chinese Design institutes: Analysis of their options for internationalisation -- Community health care strategic: Facilities management -- Construction materials suppliers: To trade or not to trade? That is the question -- Drivers for change in the construction industry: An empirical study of the effects on undergraduate research -- Extraction of interpretable rules from office projects cost data -- Forecasting the cost of energy in sports centres -- Increasing construction productivity through total loss control -- Innovations in construction: lessons learned from four innovative organisations -- Integral value engineering in design -- ISO14000: The process towards sustainable construction -- Joint ventures in the construction industry -- Managing the change for quality -- Market trends and developments in QS services -- MCDM and the assessment of sustainability in construction -- New liabilities for the construction industry within the Party Wall Etc. Act 1996 -- Optimising embodied energy in commercial office development -- Process re-engineering in the construction industry - Buzzword or reality -- Professional interaction and participation: The role of culture and attitude -- Proposing a social network analysis approach to the evaluation of post-Latham initiatives in construction project management and procurement systems -- Research as a Marketing Strategy For Quantity Surveying Services -- Risk analysis for hazard combinations -- Risk management for local authorities' private finance initiative projects -- Scenario planning for implementing construction innovation -- Standardised process improvement for construction enterprises (SPICE): Research methodology and approach -- Sustainability and the development of an energy efficient housing stock: A review of some theoretical issues --Sustainable development challenging urbanization in China -- Temporal development issues of competitive advantage in construction -- Tender price estimation: Neural networks vs regression analysis -- The benefits of using CAPM in construction: A pilot study in the housing sector -- The changing face of housing in Britain -- The characteristics of Japanese construction procurement by the risk management approach -- The design and use of custom made spreadsheets to explore the environmental performance of dwellings -- The future role of architects -- The impact of HIV/AIDS on building types in selected areas of the Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa -- The implementation of value management in the public sector: A value for money approach? -- The need to remove ambiguity from the role of construction site managers -- The practical issues inherent in the use of a general model for bench-marking in a number of surveying practices in the West Midlands -- The practice of dayworks sheet use by a national management contractor -- The procurement of facilities services: A transaction costs approach and beyond -- The quality vector and the Cmn hyperbolic function -- The role of neural networks in early stage cost estimation in the 21st century -- The use and reuse of PVCu within the construction industry -- Towards sustainable construction materials for the new millennium -- Understanding innovation in construction profession service firms: A study of quantity surveying firms -- Using multi-agent systems technology and case based reasoning in the valuation of residential and office properties -- Value management: A failing opportunity?
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Absolute indicators of sustainable construction -- An integrated framework for life cycle costings in buildings -- Best practice for multi-project management in the construction industry -- Briefing and Design: The role of creativity -- Building performance evaluation in higher education properties: Towards a process model -- Chinese Design institutes: Analysis of their options for internationalisation -- Community health care strategic: Facilities management -- Construction materials suppliers: To trade or not to trade? That is the question -- Drivers for change in the construction industry: An empirical study of the effects on undergraduate research -- Extraction of interpretable rules from office projects cost data -- Forecasting the cost of energy in sports centres -- Increasing construction productivity through total loss control -- Innovations in construction: lessons learned from four innovative organisations -- Integral value engineering in design -- ISO14000: The process towards sustainable construction -- Joint ventures in the construction industry -- Managing the change for quality -- Market trends and developments in QS services -- MCDM and the assessment of sustainability in construction -- New liabilities for the construction industry within the Party Wall Etc. Act 1996 -- Optimising embodied energy in commercial office development -- Process re-engineering in the construction industry - Buzzword or reality -- Professional interaction and participation: The role of culture and attitude -- Proposing a social network analysis approach to the evaluation of post-Latham initiatives in construction project management and procurement systems -- Research as a Marketing Strategy For Quantity Surveying Services -- Risk analysis for hazard combinations -- Risk management for local authorities' private finance initiative projects -- Scenario planning for implementing construction innovation -- Standardised process improvement for construction enterprises (SPICE): Research methodology and approach -- Sustainability and the development of an energy efficient housing stock: A review of some theoretical issues --Sustainable development challenging urbanization in China -- Temporal development issues of competitive advantage in construction -- Tender price estimation: Neural networks vs regression analysis -- The benefits of using CAPM in construction: A pilot study in the housing sector -- The changing face of housing in Britain -- The characteristics of Japanese construction procurement by the risk management approach -- The design and use of custom made spreadsheets to explore the environmental performance of dwellings -- The future role of architects -- The impact of HIV/AIDS on building types in selected areas of the Kwazulu-Natal Province of South Africa -- The implementation of value management in the public sector: A value for money approach? -- The need to remove ambiguity from the role of construction site managers -- The practical issues inherent in the use of a general model for bench-marking in a number of surveying practices in the West Midlands -- The practice of dayworks sheet use by a national management contractor -- The procurement of facilities services: A transaction costs approach and beyond -- The quality vector and the Cmn hyperbolic function -- The role of neural networks in early stage cost estimation in the 21st century -- The use and reuse of PVCu within the construction industry -- Towards sustainable construction materials for the new millennium -- Understanding innovation in construction profession service firms: A study of quantity surveying firms -- Using multi-agent systems technology and case based reasoning in the valuation of residential and office properties -- Value management: A failing opportunity?

Available on the RICS website.