BUILDING BODY KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCT PROJECT DELIVERY, PROCURE

This book aims to consolidate, structure and articulate collective knowledge on construction project delivery, procurement and contracting, so that it can serve as a gateway to the contiguous topics of construction project delivery. In addition to supporting the education of student researchers, as well as broadening and deepening the knowledge of practitioners, the book is also intended to serve as a foundation for future education and as a reference book. Academicians can use it to benchmark and support their research and also as a textbook for an undergraduate or graduate course on the topics of project delivery, procurement and contracting.

Contents:

• Project Delivery:
  • Project Delivery Methods (Giovanni C Migliaccio and Pramen P Shrestha)
  • Obstacles and Solutions for Adoption of Integrated Digital Delivery (Jasmine Ngo, Bon-Gang Hwang and Wan Yi, Priscilla, Her)
  • The Relationship between Project Delivery Method and Project Work Environment and Collaboration (Edward Minchin)
  • Early Contractor Involvement in Project Delivery — Drivers and Impediments (Ghada M Gad and Edward Minchin)
  • Project Delivery Methods and Green Building Projects: The Owner's Perspective (Bo Xia and Ayokunle Olubunmi Olanipekun)
• Procurement:
  • Procurement Approaches for Design, Construction, and Materials (Pramen P Shrestha and Giovanni C Migliaccio)
  • Qualifications-driven Procurement (Mounir El Asmar and Wylie Bearup)
  • Addressing the Fallacy in Lump-Sum Best-Value Procurement for Design–Build Highway Projects (Maria Calahorra-Jimenez, Cristina Torres-Machi and Keith R Molenaar)
  • Technical and Organizational Challenges for Incentivizing Sustainable Public Procurement (Jeralee Anderson, Giovanni Migliaccio, Steve Muench and Amlan Mukherjee)
• Contracting:
  • Traditional Contracting Approaches for Design, Construction, and Materials (Giovanni C Migliaccio, Pramen P Shrestha and G Edward Gibson Jr)
  • Performance-Based Contracting Approaches (Kishor Shrestha)
  • Contractual Aspects of Integrated Project Delivery (Islam H El-adaway and Rayan H Assaad)
  • International Contracting (Ying Gao, Zhuo Feng and Shuibo Zhang)
  • Construction Disputes (Richard J Gebken)
  • Proposed Framework and Building Blocks for a Body of Knowledge in Construction Project Delivery, Procurement, and Contracting (Pramen P Shrestha and Giovanni C Migliaccio)

Readership: Civil engineers, architects, Built Environment professionals, and Construction professionals. Upper division undergraduate and graduate students studying construction project delivery, contracting and/or procurement.

Key Features:

• Provides overview of most recent practices and method for delivering construction projects, procuring materials and services and contracting for them
• Covers project management used in all types of construction projects
• Suitable for both undergraduate and graduate level students
• Topics written by experts in their fields
• Covers recent topics related to these areas