“Research Companion to Construction Economics” has been published today, 15 March 2022.
This is the list of chapters:
Foreword
Dr Patricia Hillebrandt
1. The book
George Ofori, London South Bank University, UK
2. Construction Economics: its origins, significance, current status and need for development
George Ofori, London South Bank University, UK
3. The philosophy of construction economics
Stephen Gruneberg and John Kelsey
University College London, UK
4. The nature and development of construction economics
Gerard de Valence, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
5. Construction economics in Antiquity
Jan Bröchner, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
6. Construction in the economy and in national development
Jorge Lopes, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal
7. Construction project economics
Nii A. Ankrah, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
and Emmanuel Manu, Nottingham Trent University, UK
8. Dynamics of construction industry development
Mohan Kumaraswamy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; and University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and Gangadhar Mahesh, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
9. Applications of mainstream economic theories to the construction industry: transaction costs
Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Aziz and Afzan Ahmad Zaini
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
10. Construction industry and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Alex Opoku, University College London, UK
11. Sustainability economics and the construction industry
Obas John Ebohon, London South Bank University, UK
12. International construction data: A critical review
Jim Meikle, University College London, UK
and Asheem Shrestha, Deakin University, Australia
13. Measuring and comparing construction costs in different locations: methods and data
Rick Best, Bond University, Australia
14. New trends in international construction
Hongbin Jiang, PricewaterhouseCoopers China, Beijing, P. R. China
15. Economics of trust in construction
Anita Cerić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
16. The builders of cities: Prospects for synergy between labour and the built environment
Edmundo Werna, London South Bank University, UK
and Jeroen Klink, University Federal do ABC, Brazil
17. Economic principles of bidding for construction projects
Samuel Laryea, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
18. Procurement and delivery management
Ron Watermeyer, Infrastructure Options Pty(Ltd), South Africa
19. The economics of housing policy and construction: developing a responsive supply sector
Suraya Ismail, Khazanah Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
20. A review of stakeholder management in construction
Ezekiel Chinyio, Sukhtaj Singh and Subashini Suresh
University of Wolverhampton, UK
21. The global construction market
Weisheng Lu, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong , SAR
and Meng Ye, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
22. Relational impacts of corruption on the procurement process: implications for economic growth in developing countries
Albert Chanand Emmanuel Kingsford Owusu
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR
23. Economic Considerations in the Procurement and Deployment of Construction Informatics Applications
Chimay J. Anumba
University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA
and Esther A. Obonyo, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA.
24. The future: New directions of Construction Economics research
George Ofori, London South Bank University, UK
