Publications
Clients Driving Construction Innovation Clients Driving Construction Innovation: Benefiting from Innovation (edited by Kerry Brown, Keith Hampson, Peter Brandon and Janet Pillay) $49.95 (incl. GST) purchase book from online store OR complete an order form Edited by Kerry Brown, Keith Hampson, Peter Brandon and Janet Pillay, Benefiting from Innovation includes contributions from academics and practitioners from around the globe with specialist expertise in areas of: • meeting clients’ needs • procurement and risk management • improving efficiencies through information and communication technologies • construction health and safety • facilities management • industry development • sustainable construction for the future. As was the case with Mapping the Terrain and Moving Ideas into Practice, the content for the third book in the series has been principally derived from leading papers presented at the CRC for Construction Innovation’s most recent international conference. Clients Driving Construction Innovation Clients Driving Construction Innovation: Moving Ideas into Practice (edited by Kerry Brown, Keith Hampson and Peter Brandon) $49.95 (incl. GST)  Todays international business environment is becoming more competitive each day. The property and construction industry, with its highly fragmented project activities, and increasingly demanding clients is no exception. Clients Driving Construction Innovation: Moving Ideas into Practice provides a forum for world-leading industry practitioners and researchers creating the edge in this highly competitive environment to share the results of their research and innovation. Edited by Kerry Brown, Keith Hampson and Peter Brandon, this is the second book in a series focusing on the role of clients in the innovation process throughout the construction industry. This series of books is an important outcome of the CIB Task Group 58 Clients and Construction Innovation. The book builds upon key frameworks, concepts and case studies presented in the earlier volume Clients Driving Construction Innovation: Mapping the Terrain. Moving Ideas into Practice brings together research on clients, designers, constructors and facility managers to focus on cutting-edge research in constructed facilities. It showcases technologies and practices developed by leading practitioners and researchers globally and presents advanced applications of applied research for improving industry practice. First published 2006 by the CRC for Construction Innovation, for Icon.Net Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 7410712 8 3 Clients Driving Construction Innovation Clients Driving Construction Innovation: Mapping the Terrain (edited by Kerry Brown, Keith Hampson and Peter Brandon) $49.95 (incl. GST)  The 182-page book demonstrates that innovation continues to be prominent within the construction industry and that innovation can occur through leadership from competent clients who know what they want and are willing to work with the delivery team towards developing new processes and principles to achieve their goals. How stakeholders work together to solve problems is a key focus of this publication. It analyses the role of the client in the innovation process throughout the construction industry. Incorporating different industrial and organisational settings from a range of perspectives, this volume provides frameworks, concepts and case studies to further the knowledge and understanding of the client in the innovation processand establishes an agenda for capitalising on the benefits of innovation in construction. The rich array of case studies translatessome of the research results into a broader organisational and industry context.The lessons from the cases establish good-practice examples that demonstrate ways of addressing real problems or offering new ways of thinking about old problems. The recurring themes of innovation, relationships and collaboration are allied to the need to work together in new ways to prevent the innovation lag time, ensure that innovation meets the needs of all stakeholders and is able to be implemented across the industry. First published 2005 by the CRC for Construction Innovation, for Icon.Net Pty Ltd. ISBN 0 9758047 1 5 |
