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Ahiaga-Dagbui, D D and Smith, S D (2014) Dealing with construction cost overruns using data mining. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 682-94.
Bijleveld, F R and Dorée, A G (2014) Method-based learning: a case in the asphalt construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 665-81.
Buser, M and Koch, C (2014) Is this none of the contractor’s business? Social sustainability challenges informed by literary accounts. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 749-59.
Close, R and Loosemore, M (2014) Breaking down the site hoardings: attitudes and approaches to community consultation during construction. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 816-28.
Collinge, W H and Harty, C F (2014) Stakeholder interpretations of design: semiotic insights into the briefing process. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 760-72.
- Type: Journal Article
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- ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2014.894247
- Abstract:
Briefing phase interactions between clients and designers are recognized as social engagements, characterized by communicative sign use, where conceptual ideas are gradually transformed into potential design solutions. A semiotic analysis of briefing communications between client stakeholders and designers provides evidence of the significance and importance of stakeholder interpretation and understanding of design, empirical data being drawn from a qualitative study of NHS hospital construction projects in the UK. It is contended that stakeholders engage with a project through communicative signs and artefacts of design, referencing personal cognitive knowledge in acts of interpretation that may be different from those of designers and externally appointed client advisers. Such interpretations occur in addition to NHS client and design team efforts to "engage" with and "understand" stakeholders using a variety of methods. Social semiotic theorizations indicate how narrative strategies motivate the formulation of signs and artefacts in briefing work, the role of sign authors and sign readers being elucidated as a result. Findings are contextualized against current understandings of briefing communications and stakeholder management practices, a more socially attuned understanding of breifing countering some of the process-led improvement models that have characterized much of the post-Egan report literature. A stakeholder interpretation model is presented as one potential method to safeguard against unforeseen interpretations occurring, the model aligning with the proposal for a more measured recognition of how designs can trigger interpretations among client stakeholders.
Ju, C and Rowlinson, S (2014) Institutional determinants of construction safety management strategies of contractors in Hong Kong. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 725-36.
olde Scholtenhuis, L L and Dorée, A G (2014) High reliability organizing at the boundary of the CM domain. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 658-64.
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Sage, D, Dainty, A, Tryggestad, K, Justesen, L and Mouritsen, J (2014) Building with wildlife: project geographies and cosmopolitics in infrastructure construction. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 773-86.
Sherratt, F (2014) Exploring ‘Zero Target’ safety programmes in the UK construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 737-48.
Shipton, C, Hughes, W and Tutt, D (2014) Change management in practice: an ethnographic study of changes to contract requirements on a hospital project. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 787-803.
Smiley, J-P, Fernie, S and Dainty, A (2014) Understanding construction reform discourses. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 804-15.
Taggart, M, Koskela, L and Rooke, J (2014) The role of the supply chain in the elimination and reduction of construction rework and defects: an action research approach. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 829-42.
Tansey, P, Spillane, J P and Meng, X (2014) Linking response strategies adopted by construction firms during the 2007 economic recession to Porter’s generic strategies. Construction Management and Economics, 32(07), 705-24.