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Afxentiadis, D E (2010) Interpreting a major event organization's efforts to reliably manage information security risks: the case of the Athens 2004 Olympics, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Al-Musleh, A M (2011) Development of a framework for total quality management principles in the construction companies with special reference to the construction companies in the state of Qatar, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering and Material Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London.

Al-Sinan, M A (2004) TQM and the construction industry: Saudi Arabia: a case study, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering, City, University of London.

Al-Zarooni, S (1997) Developing the construction industry in the United Arab Emirates with special reference to Abu Dhabi, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Alnaggar, A M M M (2022) Digital transformation in asset management organisations: towards a data driven approach for life cycle asset management, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Antonopoulou, S (1987) The building industry in Greece: its role in the post-war Greek economy, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Apostolopoulos, C (2015) Risk assessment for change management within project management: a hierarchical model process approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , City, University of London.

Arvanitis, D (2017) Collaboration and contract management in the context of offshore oil and gas contracts: an English law analysis, Unpublished PhD Thesis, The City Law School, City, University of London.

Atkinson, A R (2000) The management of error in construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Baik, A H (2017) Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) as a model of UNESCO's World Heritage Nomination File, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Ball, M (1988) Economic change in the British construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economics, Birkbeck, University of London.

• Type: Thesis
• Keywords: industry development; economic analysis; industry structure
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• URL: https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389403
• Abstract:
  Of all industries in Britain, construction has one of the worst public images. High cost, poor quality and chaotic working practices are believed by many to be synonymous with building work. Folk tales abound about what goes on in the industry. The derogatory word 'cowboy' is often used against get-rich-quick construction firms and workers. It sums up well the general view of construction - not quite proper, full of sharp practices, dangerous, inefficient and definitely not like any other modern industry. Like all folk-lore generalisations, such views of the construction industry are based primarily on myth. But they do have close links to many people's experiences of the industry, either as consumers or as building workers. Over the past 15 years, the industry has contracted substantially in the face of declining orders for new work. Substantial restructuring has taken place, leading to considerable reductions in capacity. In the context of such reduced potential, it is virtually impossible to expect any rapid increase in the output of the construction industry, even if a government decided to pump millions of pounds into building work. It is also unclear what shape the new slimmed down construction industry is in. Has it improved its hopeless record of high cost and low productivity? Are shoddy work and building failures aberrations from its past or an ever-present threat? In the midst of the rapid changes taking pace, it is difficult to piece together adequate answers to such questions without an understanding of how such problem first arose. This thesis explains why the building industry is like it is, and why and how it has changed over the recent decades. The popular view of construction is shown to be misplaced, but a dynamic, vibrant industry cannot, unfortunately, be revealed to replace the mythology. The core chapters look at the organisation of the industry, the relationships between employers and workers, the role of architects and other professionals, the slump in construction workloads over the past decade, the shift away from new building to repair and renovation, how firms have managed to survive the slump and the resultant impact on the industry as a whole, and assess the consequences of the changes that have taken place in the industry over the past 15 years. When looking at the construction industry, some guiding theories are required to interpret, organise and evaluate the mass of available information. So a sub-theme running through the thesis concerns theories of the construction industry. Competing views are examined, and it is suggested that the industry can only be adequately understood in terms of the complexity of its social relations, its history and the overwhelming dominance of large scale capitalist enterprises. Such an argument contrasts, in particular, with interpretations of construction which externalise its problems. Governments, economic fluctuations, trade unions, planners, even nature itself have been blamed for construction's ills; while remarkably little analysis exists of the peculiarities of capitalism in construction itself.

Baltazar dos Santos, A P (2009) Cyberarchitecture: the virtualisation of architecture beyond representation towards interactivity, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Barros de Oliveira, N R (2013) A theory of coordination voids in dynamic inter-organisational relationships: a study of social housing projects in England, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Beech, N (2012) Constructing everyday life: an architectural history of the South Bank in production, 1948-1951, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Behar, C B (2016) A socio-technical perspective of ventilation practices in UK social housing with whole house ventilation systems: design, everyday life and change, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Bouwer, K A (2016) Building disappointment: the limits and potential of tort liability for energy efficiency problems in domestic buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Bowers, R (2019) Gendered economies of extraction: seeking permanence amidst the rubble of Bengaluru's construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Boyes, G (2021) Towards BIM/GIS interoperability: a theoretical framework and practical generation of spaces to support infrastructure Asset Management, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Burman, E (2016) Assessing the operational performance of educational buildings against design expectations: a case study approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Champion, R (2005) Acceleration in construction and engineering contracts , Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London.

Chan, H-W E (2003) A study of contractual provisions relevant to disputes arising in international construction projects involving both european and East asian cultural factors, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , King's College London (University of London).

Cho, Y (2000) The Korean housebuilding industry: aspects of growth, efficiency and diversification, 1980-1995, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Choy, N Y C (2016) The construction of urban design values in volume housing production, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , King's College London (University of London).

Eaglestone, F N (1993) An improved method of requesting insurance under UK construction contracts, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , City, University of London.

Eccles, T S (2009) The English building industry in late modernity: an empirical investigation of the definition, construction and meaning of profession, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Fang, Z (2022) Machine learning integrated portfolio-based strategic building asset management, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Few, J F M (2021) Ventilation in occupied homes: measurement, performance and sociotechnical perspectives, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Filho, Antonio Juca (1995) Technological change and informal housebuilding in Brazil, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Hesse, A D (1991) The management of risks in the procurement of very large construction projects (Britain and New Commonwealth): Comparative change in procurement methods for very large construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Howard, R W (2021) Of incentive, bias, and behaviour: an empirical economic investigation into project delivery constructs influencing the adoption of building information modelling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Husain, T (2023) Foreign investment and infrastructure financing: railways during the first age of globalisation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Kadir Pakir, A H (2003) Integration: A study in the context of low cost housing projects in Malaysia with special reference to the state of penang, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Kamanda-Kabague, B M (1981) Application of mathematical model techniques to the planning and control of overhead costs in the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering, City, University of London.

Khodakarami, V (2009) Applying Bayesian networks to model uncertainty in project scheduling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Queen Mary, University of London.

Kurul, E (2003) Re-using listed buildings through conversion: A process mapping approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Lin, R F Y (2016) The comparative econometric analysis of property and construction markets in commercial and residential sectors for GB and its regions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Maci, M (2010) Bid rigging in the EU public procurement markets, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Law (?), Queen Mary, University of London.

Meaker, T A (1994) The role of intervention in strategic change, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Systems Science, City, University of London.

Mihov, M (2020) Making it fit: The role of institutional work in the transplantation of the anglo-saxon public-private partnership model to Germany, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, King's College.

Mimendi Cruz, J L (2021) Digital workflow for the design, construction and management of natural bamboo pole structures, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Morton, C N (1979) Collective bargaining in building and civil engineering: a case study of three major re-development protects in the City of London, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Murray, A (2018) Returns on public capital investment: Procurement, whole life cost and value in English schools and hospitals, from 1997-2012, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Naghshbandi, S N (2022) Technology capabilities for safe and resilient coordination of automated earthwork systems: a decentralized multi-agent system approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Nathan, K V S K (1994) Submission to ICSID in breach of the convention: disputes in international civil engineering contracts, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Faculty of Laws, Queen Mary, University of London.

Netto, A M (2001) Third party rights for latent defects in buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , King's College London (University of London).

Orero, E (2019) Exploring options in infrastructure financing in Africa: steering of public private partnerships (PPPs) in Kenya, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Royal Holloway, University of London.

Pocobelli, D P (2021) Heritage building information model (BIM) for scientific data, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Polson, D R (2020) Assessment of applications of optimisation to building design and energy modelling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Presland, A J (2023) Picturing construction, constructing identities: the photographic archive of John Laing & Son Ltd, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Reeves, K (2003) The evolution of the Japanese construction business system and its major players, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Reichert, J (2005) Will change management master the challenge of introducing the Eurocodes to the UK?, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Rowe, A (1991) Self-help housing provision and capital accumulation in atlantic Canada, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, London School of Economics.

Ryan, E C (2001) An economic analysis of standard construction contracts, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Centre for Construction Law and Management, King's College London (University of London).

Sanei, H (2016) Discipline breakdown structure: Bridging project management and systems engineering to form an integrated management system in multidisciplinary rail projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Sarie Eldin, H S (1995) Consortia agreements in the international construction industry: With special reference to Egypt, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Queen Mary, University of London.

Sassano, G (2022) Optimism bias and cost overruns: experimenting on the internal and external views in resources and time estimation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Shafie, K (1995) Building refurbishment contracts bid decision knowledge and its applicationan a knowledge based decision support system (ADJUBID), Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Singh, R (2018) Defining models for project management processes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , King's College London (University of London).

Song, Y (2022) Resilience bonds and the financing of resilient infrastructure, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Ssengooba, F P (2010) Performance-based contracting: a case study of non-profit hospitals in Uganda, Unpublished PhD Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medecine, University of London.

Stephenson, J (2015) The organisation of work and wages in the London building trades in the long eighteenth century, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Sugiyantoro (2021) Homebuyers' strategies for progressive residential infrastructure improvement in Bandung, Indonesia, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Sweis, R K (1988) Construction insurance in the Arab Gulf area: an analysis of cover and contracts, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Business School, City, University of London.

Symons, A W (2021) Integrated design, design management and the delivery of major hospitals, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Tangrungruengyoo, K (2018) The impact of environmental impact assessment on new housing development: a case study of Bangkok, Thailand, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Geography Department, King's College London (University of London).

Thiel, D J (2005) Builders: the social organisation of a construction site, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Thomas, C S (1994) Aspects of building contracts: A comparative view of English and French law in the light of potential harmonisation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , King's College London (University of London).

Tidwell, J B (2018) Creating demand for peri-urban sanitation in Lusaka, Zambia, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London).

Udomdech, P (2020) Project-based innovation learning mechanisms in the built environment, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Udomdech, P (2021) Project-based innovation learning mechanisms in the built environment, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Vinci, F (2022) Project-based networks in the delivery of infrastructure projects and programmes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

Wang, Y (2022) Monitoring, modelling and analysis of occupants' operation of windows, use of air purifiers and smart air quality control in low-energy residential buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University College London (University of London).

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Zhao, C E (2007) Financial risk management of PPP projects in the UK and China: A comparative study, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of London, University College London.

Zhou, H (2021) Institution building, organisational restructuring and everyday negotiations in Uganda's roads sector, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , SOAS, University of London.