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Author: Rick Best (Bond University, Australia) ,
Jim Meikle (University College London, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9780367738341
ISBN 10: 0367738341
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""In their endnote, the editors assert that ""much that is written about construction prices, output, productivity and the rest is unreliable or plainly wrong"". Their book is a helpful antidote. While offering more than a typical textbook for undergraduate courses, it should appeal to more than researchers in the field and deserves a broader readership."" – Construction Economics and Building, Jan Bröchner, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden ""The book is highly recommended for everyone, academics as well as practitioners, who engages in international price and cost comparisons and/or in performance benchmarking in construction."" - Bernard Vogl (2015), Construction Management and Economics, 33:9, 775-777,"
In their endnote, the editors assert that much that is written about construction prices, output, productivity and the rest is unreliable or plainly wrong. Their book is a helpful antidote. While offering more than a typical textbook for undergraduate courses, it should appeal to more than researchers in the field and deserves a broader readership. Construction Economics and Building, Jan Brochner, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden In their endnote, the editors assert that much that is written about construction prices, output, productivity and the rest is unreliable or plainly wrong. Their book is a helpful antidote. While offering more than a typical textbook for undergraduate courses, it should appeal to more than researchers in the field and deserves a broader readership. Construction Economics and Building, Jan Brochner, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden The book is highly recommended for everyone, academics as well as practitioners, who engages in international price and cost comparisons and/or in performance benchmarking in construction. - Bernard Vogl (2015), Construction Management and Economics, 33:9, 775-777,
Author Information
Rick Best is Associate Professor of Construction Management and Economics at Bond University. He has produced numerous book chapters and papers over a 20 year career as an academic as well as co-editing three books and co-authoring two quantity surveying textbooks. He was the founding director of the Centre for Comparative Construction Research. His research over the past ten years has been focused on the problems associated with making valid comparisons of construction industries across countries and has contributed to the development of the most recent construction data collection project within the International Comparison Program. Jim Meikle has a part-time chair in construction economics at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College, London (UCL). He also works as an independent consultant, having retired as a partner of Davis Langdon LLP in 2005. He has extensive experience in the management and implementation of construction, consultancy and research projects and programmes and has worked for private clients and government departments in the UK and other countries, and for international organisations. His interests include international comparisons, the structure and operation of construction industries and construction industry statistics. Jim is a non-executive director with Alexi Marmot Associates (AMA), a trustee of the Usable Buildings Trust and an adjunct professor at Bond University.
