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Making Sense of Construction Improvement: Green/Making Sense of Construction Improvement by Stuart D. Green(auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The book sets out deliberately to challenge the current construction improvement debate and the way in which it is conducted. It confronts the supposedly neutral nature of construction 'best practice' and demonstrates that that the advocated recipes seldom stand up to critical scrutiny. It further argues that commonly accepted components of best practice such as lean construction, partnering and collaborative working rarely live up to the claims made on their behalf. Such recipes invariably suffer from definitional vagueness, and are constantly reinterpreted to suit the needs the different audiences. __Making Sense of Construction Improvement__ argues that construction sector improvement techniques cannot be understood in terms of their substantive content, and are best understood in terms of the rhetoric within which they are presented. The author also contends that the persuasiveness of such recipes depends upon the extent to which practitioners can adopt them for the purposes of making sense of the changes they observe happening around them. To be accepted as 'best practice' construction improvement techniques must also resonate with broader agendas of socio-technological change

Who reads Making Sense of Construction Improvement: Green/Making Sense of Construction Improvement?

Author

Stuart D. Green(auth.)

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781444341102

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Management, Engineering