The book is intended for students and graduates of civil engineering, construction management, building and quantity surveying, and arranged to
reflect site, business and corporate responsibilities embraced by the latest national vocational qualifications available for supervisory and management
levels of career development. This approach acknowledges that the modern successful construction engineer, builder, commercial manager or quantity
surveyor needs to be a competent technologist who possesses complementary skills and knowledge in management as well as understanding the business
processes. Armed with such expertise, the young construction trainee will be better prepared for decision making and undertaking executive responsibilities.
Importantly, the new edition directs attention towards achieving a socially responsible, innovative, carbon-reducing, manager-involved, people-oriented,
crisis-free, efficient and cost-effective construction industry that competes in an information-enabled environment.
Guided by the drive for improvement in performance stimulated through the Rethinking Construction; Construction Best Practice; and Accelerating Change
reports, and more recently by the UK government agenda to achieve Building Information Modelling (BIM) for delivering projects, the key recommendations
concerning leadership, client satisfaction, integrated processes and teams, quality management, environmental and social responsibility, cloud operations, and
BIM are thus interwoven throughout the text. The construction engineer, builder, commercial manager or quantity surveyor
may thereby better understand and implement the modern strategies needed in providing value for money for the client and society. Particularly, alternative
solutions for achieving adequacy in cash flow through invoice financing are provided. Equally, inefficient practices relating to investment decision making,
standards and regulation complexity, stakeholder responsibilities, supply chain management, contractual-risk allocation, cost and asset condition data provision
as highlighted in the recent Infrastructure UK cost review of delivering construction projects are covered.
The book begins by emphasizing the important role of total quality management and safe working that now pervades every aspect of construction
