The Connectivity Of Innovation In The Construction Industry

Author : Malena Ingemansson Havenvid,Åse Linné,Lena E. Bygballe,Chris Harty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351110174

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The Connectivity of Innovation in the Construction Industry by Malena Ingemansson Havenvid,Åse Linné,Lena E. Bygballe,Chris Harty Pdf

The construction industry is currently experiencing accelerating developments concerning societal demands along with project complexity, internationalization and digitalization. In an attempt to grasp the consequences of these demands on productivity and innovation, this edited book addresses how innovation is likely to take place with a more long-term perspective on the construction sector. While existing literature focuses on organizational discontinuity and fragmentation as the main reasons for the apparent lack of innovation in the industry, this book highlights the connectivity of construction actors, resources and activities as fundamental for understanding how innovation takes place.Through 15 empirically grounded chapters, the book shows how innovation is part of construction processes on various levels, including project, firm and industry, and that these innovation processes are characterized by organizational and technological connectivity over time. Written by European business management scholars, the chapters cover empirical cases and examples from both a multi-organizational and a multi-international perspective in terms of covering the viewpoints of different industry actors and the contexts of several different European countries including: Sweden, Norway, the UK, Italy, France, Hungary and Poland. By illustrating how connectivity is part of innovation processes in the creation of single-product innovations, of various innovations within and across projects, as well as a fundamental aspect of the processes in which innovations cross nations, the book provides a new angle on how to understand construction innovation and where the industry might (or needs to) be heading next. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in construction management, project management, engineering management, innovation studies, business and management studies.

Author : Seyed Hamidreza Ghaffar,Paul Mullett,Eujin Pei,John Roberts
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030957988

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Innovation in Construction by Seyed Hamidreza Ghaffar,Paul Mullett,Eujin Pei,John Roberts Pdf

This book tackles the complex topic of implementing innovation and the successful application of advanced technology in the construction industry. It provides a practical guide for the transformation of the industry by detailing appropriate and effective implementation methods, required skill sets and structural changes necessary to facilitate the practical and innovative application of technology. The construction industry is behind other industries in its level of innovation and adoption of technology, and is of critical importance to many of today’s global challenges, such as climate change, global warming and resource scarcity. There is therefore a need for smarter and more efficient ways of managing available resources. This book elaborates on how the innovative application of technology could offer hope for the construction industry in it’s imperative to rise to current and future global challenges. It includes the real-world case studies of innovative projects that go beyond the current state-of-the-art academic research, and have improved productivity, quality and performance in the construction sector. This book provides readers from both industrial and academic backgrounds with a comprehensive guide on transforming the construction industry with the efficient and effective implementation of technologies and modern methods of construction.

Author : Finn Orstavik,Andrew R. J. Dainty,Carl Abbott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118655535

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Construction Innovation by Finn Orstavik,Andrew R. J. Dainty,Carl Abbott Pdf

Construction innovation is an important but contested concept, both in industry practice and academic reflection and research. A fundamental reason for this is the nature of the construction industry itself: the industry and the value creation activities taking place there are multi-disciplinary, heterogeneous, distributed and often fragmented. This book takes a new approach to construction innovation, revealing different perspectives, set in a broader context. It coalesces multiple theoretical and practice-based views in order to stimulate reflection and to prepare the ground for further synthesis. By being clear, cogent and unambiguous on the most basic definitions, it can mobilise a plurality of perspectives on innovation to promote fresh thinking on how it can be studied, enabled, measured, and propagated across the industry. This book does not gloss over the real-life complexity of construction innovation. Instead, its authors look explicitly at the challenges that conceptual issues entail and by making their own position clear, they open up fresh intellectual space for reflection. Construction Innovation examines innovation from different positions and through different conceptual lenses to reveal the richness that the theoretical perspectives offer to our understanding of the way that the construction sector actors innovate at both project and organizational levels. The editors have brought together here leading scholars to deconstruct the concept of innovation and to discuss the merits of different perspectives, their commonalities and their diversity. The result is an invaluable sourcebook for those studying and leading innovation in the design, the building and the maintenance of our built environment.

Author : André Manseau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351954136

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Building Tomorrow: Innovation in Construction and Engineering by André Manseau Pdf

In the past decade construction and engineering have changed dramatically, with an explosion of innovative new approaches to construction and new methodologies. By bringing together economic, social and construction/engineering management perspectives, this book offers a unique and comprehensive survey of these approaches and techniques. It presents a history of studies in innovation in construction and engineering, and then presents the most recent models of innovation brokering and risk-management, based on complex project-based industries. Innovation is defined and competing theories are discussed in the light of operational issues. The book covers all aspects, including the importance of construction and engineering 'cultures' in the trades for successful project innovation. It also discusses the role of government and policy makers, the implications of rapid change for the building trades and skilled labour, and the difficulty of measuring innovation quantitatively.

Author : Akintola Akintoye,Jack Goulding,Girma Zawdie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781405156486

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Construction Innovation and Process Improvement by Akintola Akintoye,Jack Goulding,Girma Zawdie Pdf

Innovation in construction is essential for growth. The industry strives to remain competitive using a variety of approaches and needs to engage structured initiatives linked to proven innovation concepts, techniques and applications. Even in mature markets like the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector, where business behaviour is generally considered as being risk averse, it is increasingly important to embed innovation into mainstream business practices. In Construction Innovation and Process Improvement a number of wide ranging issues from construction practice in different countries with different contexts are presented to provide a rich collection of literature embracing theory and practice. Chapters are divided into three broad themes of construction innovation relating to: Theory and Practice; Process Drivers; and Future Technologies. Several questions are posed, including for example: What is particularly unique about construction innovation in theory and practice? What are the major drivers of construction innovation? What factors are needed to support and deliver future construction technologies? In attempting to respond to such questions, the book sheds new light on these challenges, and provides readers with a number of ways forward, especially cognisant of the increased role of globalisation, the enhanced impact of knowledge, and importance of innovation. All these can have a significant impact on strategic decision-making, competitive advantage, and sustainable policies and practices. Part One deals with change management, technology, sustainable construction, and supply chain management; Part Two addresses innovation and process improvement drivers, including strategic management, concurrent engineering, risk management, innovative procurement, knowledge management; Part Three explores future technologies in construction – and particularly, how these can be harnessed and leveraged to help procure innovation and process improvement.

Author : Andre Manseau,George Seaden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134576418

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Innovation in Construction by Andre Manseau,George Seaden Pdf

How can innovation in the construction industry be strengthened? What instruments and approaches are being used by governments to promote it? What works and under what circumstances? These key questions have profound implications. This book presents a framework for the analysis of innovation models and systems in construction and an international comparison of these systems, with a focus on their application in practical policy development.

Author : Peter Barrett,Martin Sexton,Angela Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781134161737

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Innovation in Small Construction Firms by Peter Barrett,Martin Sexton,Angela Lee Pdf

Innovation in Small Construction Firms promotes the benefits of innovation, and stimulate innovation capability within and between small and medium sized (SMEs) construction firms in an effort to bring in a new 'can innovate, should innovate, want to innovate' culture to the construction industry. Presenting new theoretical and practical insights and models grounded in descriptive case studies, the issues addressed include: what is the motivation to innovate? what is appropriate innovation? how can small construction firms create, manage and exploit innovation? what practice-based models, tools and techniques support the capability of small construction firms to innovate well? how does this fit in the context of leading international work in construction innovation? Findings are contextualised in the broader literature to make them of relevance to policy makers, practitioners and researchers interested in small, project-based firms in general.

Author : Joachim Thiel,Venetsiya Dimitrova,Johanna Ruge
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 386859678X

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Constructing Innovation: How Large-Scale Projects Drive Novelty in the Construction Industryhnologies in Urban Environments by Joachim Thiel,Venetsiya Dimitrova,Johanna Ruge Pdf

The construction sector is not exactly known for its innovation. Also, the reputation of large-scale projects builds less on their capacity to generate novelty than on their likelihood to fail in terms of project management's performance indicators of time and cost. And yet, throughout the history of construction, the sector has regularly experienced the introduction of novel technologies and techniques, often advanced through large-scale projects such as the Eiffel Tower or Sydney Opera House. This book seeks to shed light on this aspect of large-scale construction projects. The volume contains the results of an interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars from the social sciences and construction engineering. Through six indepth case studies comprising recent large-scale construction projects in Germany, chapters take different disciplinary and conceptual premises to explore the contribution these projects have made in generating and dispersing innovations.

Author : Ben Obinero Uwakwhe,Isaam A. Minkarah
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420040104

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10th Symposium Construction Innovation and Global Competitiveness by Ben Obinero Uwakwhe,Isaam A. Minkarah Pdf

This two-volume set comprises the proceedings of the 2002 symposium concerned with innovation in the construction industry and global competition. Approximately 115 papers address topics ranging from business improvement to the impact of innovation on the built environment; globalization and competitiveness, including core issues influencing global

Author : Natalya Sergeeva
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351117326

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Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment by Natalya Sergeeva Pdf

This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers, project managers, academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects, the book addresses some key themes, challenges and concerns that practitioners face when managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key drivers for innovation in the construction, engineering and infrastructure firms and projects. In particular, the questions of how and why innovation becomes recognised and sustained over time are explored. Different theoretical perspectives are considered to explain different aspects of innovation. This includes sensemaking, organisational and individual identity, storytelling and narration. The book has practical implications for how organisational activities become labelled as ‘innovation’ and for what purpose. It shares some lived stories of innovation as mobilised by practising managers. The connectivity between the formal narratives of innovation at the policy level and the lived narratives of innovation articulated by practitioners is explored. Combining the theory with practice, this book presents an insightful view on the implications of innovation in the business world today.

Author : Pantaleo D. Rwelamila,Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Aziz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000288650

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Improving the Performance of Construction Industries for Developing Countries by Pantaleo D. Rwelamila,Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Aziz Pdf

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries. It will provide a strong base of reference for countries looking to improve their construction industries as part of their wider economic development programme. The opening chapter presents a strategic overview of the contents of the book, and each country-specific chapter is structured to consider the legal and policy frameworks, administrative infrastructure and procedures, and implementation mechanisms, as well as the experiences, current activities, and future plans and programmes with respect to construction industry development in each country. The concluding chapter looks forward and considers the implications of future trends for the construction industries in developing countries and the actions which will be required to address them. Chapters cover: India, Singapore, Chile, South Africa, Tanzania, Malaysia, Botswana, Ghana, Uganda, Indonesia, China, Croatia, and Eswatini. Readers will learn about the wealth of comparable stories from global coverage from the detailed country-specific cases. Building on important scholarly works in the field, this book is essential reading for academics, researchers, and policy makers in built environments, economics, construction management, infrastructure management, and the wider construction industry.

Author : Martin Loosemore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136673542

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Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction by Martin Loosemore Pdf

Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction integrates insights from business and government leaders with contemporary research, to help built environment professionals turn serendipity to their own advantage by building greater innovative and adaptive capacity into their operations. Accessible and full of practical examples, the book argues that traditional business strategies which seek to systematise innovation and eliminate uncertainty need to be balanced with more flexible approaches which acknowledge and harness uncertainty. The missing key to innovation, it is argued, is to turn serendipity into capability. The author proposes a simple model which allows managers to tap into the increasingly dynamic and interconnected nature of the construction industry. Innovation does not occur in isolation within individual firms, but through collaboration. Each stakeholder in the construction industry has a responsibility to drive innovation, and this book will be key reading for consultants, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and clients, as well as policy makers and all serious students of construction management.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Building
ISBN : OCLC:946644476

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Construction Innovation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clinton Aigbavboa,Wellington Thwala,Douglas Aghimien
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031224348

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Towards a Sustainable Construction Industry: The Role of Innovation and Digitalisation by Clinton Aigbavboa,Wellington Thwala,Douglas Aghimien Pdf

This book gathers papers from the 12th Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Postgraduate Research Conference, which was held at the International Convention Centre, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, from July 10 to 12, 2022. The conference directly addresses the objectives of SDG9: “Building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation”. Moreover, the conference is designed to promote capacity development and transformation within the built-environment space by providing an all-inclusive platform to established and emerging researchers to discuss the recent advancements needed to move the industry forward.

Author : Teerikangas, Satu,Onkila, Tiina,Koistinen, Katariina,Mäkelä, Marileena
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789906035

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Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency by Teerikangas, Satu,Onkila, Tiina,Koistinen, Katariina,Mäkelä, Marileena Pdf

This innovative Research Handbook answers crucial questions about how individuals and organisations can make a difference towards sustainability. Offering an integrative perspective on sustainability agency, it reviews individual, active, organisational and relational forms of sustainability agency, demonstrating the capacity of individuals and organisations to act toward sustainable futures.