Abstract
For over fifty years, dating back to the Simon report (1944), commentators on the UK construction industry have been lamenting the design-construct divorce and advocating earlier contractor involvement to produce, inter alia, better quality buildings. Since 2003 a substantial part of the addition to the value of UK new building stock has been in the form of schools. Most have been delivered through the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme and the majority of projects within BSF have been procured under a modified PFI (PPP) system. This of course means that early contractor involvement is a ‘given’. Despite this, in 2006 a CABE report on new schools was still critical of their quality. The paper explores whether other factors – in particular the degree and timing of user-engagement – have had an influence on the quality of the end product, and presents a method for testing this
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 26th Annual ARCOM Conference |
Editors | C. Egbu |
Place of Publication | Reading |
Publisher | Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) |
Pages | 3-12 |
Number of pages | 1535 |
Volume | 1 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0955239045 |
Publication status | Published - 6 Sept 2010 |
Event | Egbu, C. (ed.) The 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, Leeds, 6-8 September. Reading: Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol 1, pp. 3-12. - Duration: 6 Sept 2010 → … |
Conference
Conference | Egbu, C. (ed.) The 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, Leeds, 6-8 September. Reading: Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol 1, pp. 3-12. |
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Period | 6/09/10 → … |
Keywords
- design process
- design quality indicator
- user engagement