Volume 1 ISBN 0854067434. CONTENTS:- Contexts and trends in the construction industry - keynote address at the COBRA conference. - BARRETT, P. / Integrating and managing the project team. - HOWELL, P. & HARDCASTLE, C. / How clients influence construction professionals' working practices. - SIMISTER, S. / Assessing the effectiveness of client participation in construction projects. - DAVENPORT, D & SMITH, R. / The growth and development of project management in the UK construction industry. - GAMESON, R. & LOWE, D. / An investigation into the reasons for cost differences between equivalent French and UK construction activities in the field of concrete work. - SMITH, R. & DAVENPORT, D. / Marketing the professional service by quantity surveying consultancy practices in South Africa. - BOWEN, P. & RWELAMILA, P. / An examination of the varying methods employed to manage the client relationship in building surveying practices. - WELDON, J. & BARRETT, P. / Changing nature of QS practices in New Zealand. - WILKINSON, S. /Life cycle costing techniques: how the construction industry could learn from other industries - GARNETT, N.; OWEN, K. / Facilities Programming - KELLY, J.; MALE, S. / Strategic cost modelling and the role of judgment - FORTUNE, C.; LEES, M. / Examination of the modelling potential of life cycle costs for office buildings - EATON, D.; SMITH, J. / Determining the influence of design attributes on construction costs - JAMES, H.; PACKER, A.; TATE, B. / Effect of value techniques on design flair - MORLEDGE, R.; MARRIOTT, P. / A method for allowing dependency between activities duration in solving the problem of stochastic network analysis - DAWOOD, N. / Multi-criteria analysis for satisfying client needs - OLTEAN-DUMBRAVA, C. / The application of computer generated graphics in organisational decision support systems operating in a real time mode - MCGEORGE, D.; CHEN, S. E.; OSTWALD, E. / The effectiveness of the design team as a temporary management structure - HALL, K. & BOWEN, P. / Changing procedures and practices and their impact on the industry: the supply of construction services for the repair and maintenance of historic buildings and monuments - DREWER, S.; STEEL, M. / Error characteristics of the English house condition survey - LARHAM, R. / Construction on contaminated land - LEWRY, A.; GARWIN, S. / Assisted learning in building condition assessment - MIKA, S. / The 'art' and the management of design and build competitions - ORMEROD, M. / Flood damage and Reinstatement - LUNAN, N. / Procurement and the use of intelligent contract authoring - HIBBERD, P.; STANSFIELD, F. / Quantity surveyors' role in design and build procurement method - KENNEDY, S.; AKINTOYE, A. / Strategies for procurement: development of choice and implementation methodology - MORLEDGE, R.; SHARIF, A. / New forms of project procurement: implications for cost databases, cost planning and tender price indexing - SMITH R.; ADAM F.; QUINN, E. / Postmodernism provides new ways of thinking about construction procurement - STANSFIELD, F. / Interpretive and modelling problems of risk and uncertainty in bidding techniques - EATON D.