• English
    • Welsh
  • English 
    • English
    • Welsh
  • Login
Search DSpace:
  • Home
  • Research at Cardiff Met
  • Library Services
  • Contact Us
View item 
  • DSpace home
  • Cardiff School of Art and Design
  • Cardiff School of Art and Design (CSAD)
  • Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment group (SuRBe)
  • View item
  • DSpace home
  • Cardiff School of Art and Design
  • Cardiff School of Art and Design (CSAD)
  • Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment group (SuRBe)
  • View item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Procurement for Holistic Sustainable Construction in the UK

Thumbnail
View/open
Hickerton_Littlewood_COBRA2010_HolisticProcurement.pdf (507.1Kb)
Author
Hickerton, George
Littlewood, John
Date
2010
Type
Conference proceedings
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
The construction industry in the United Kingdom (UK) is undergoing a change in how it procurers and constructs buildings, due to the increasing need to deliver sustainable products. This paper will investigate the internal and external stakeholder’s influence on the design team and how they are leading the design and procurement process. It will formulate a hypothesis on the optimum number of stakeholders required to deliver a successful project and review the necessary skills and experience required to justify any stakeholder’s position within the team. A review of the grassroots process of creating and educating these key stakeholders will be undertaken, by comparing the traditional and vocational methods, to establish whether there are any advantages and disadvantages in each education system. The paper poses the question about whether the construction industry in the UK should train new entrants to be specialist in separate disciplines or whether they should be educated to understand construction in general first and then specialise after several years experience within the construction industry. This paper concludes by reviewing the hypothesis and assessing how education and training can influence the number of stakeholders within a design team and if this in turn has an effect on how design teams function and procure projects. This paper will be useful to clients, developers, design team consultants and people dealing with procurement within the construction industry.
Citation
RICS, COBRA 2010, London, 2010
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10369/2752
Description
Conference paper. All COBRA 2010 conference papers can be downloaded from http://www.rics.org/site/scripts/downloads.aspx?categoryID=720
Collections
  • Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment group (SuRBe) [70]

Related items

Showing items related by title, author, subject and abstract.

  • Thumbnail

    Procurement for Holistic Sustainable Construction in the UK 

    Hickerton, George; Littlewood, John (2010-09-03)
    The construction industry in the United Kingdom (UK) is undergoing a change in how it procurers and constructs buildings, due to the increasing need to deliver sustainable products. This paper will investigate the internal ...
  • Thumbnail

    Hospitable or Hostile? The Impact of Daily Deals in the Hotel Sector of the Hospitality Industry 

    Minor, Katarzyna Barbara (Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2017)
    Daily deal promotions have been widely adopted by the hospitality industry and although academic interest is growing there is still a lack of hospitality based academic research of this phenomenon. The current literature ...
  • Thumbnail

    A Low Dishonest Decade……Smart Acquisition and Defence Procurement into the New Millennium 

    Louth, John (University of WalesCardiff School of Management, 2010)
    Smart acquisition was the change programme introduced at the end of the twentieth century charged with transforming the effectiveness of defence procurement within the United Kingdom. The initiative was rolled-out as a ...

Browse

DSpace at Cardiff MetCommunities & CollectionsBy issue dateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis collectionBy issue dateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

My Account

Login

Statistics

Most Popular ItemsStatistics by CountryMost Popular Authors

DSpace software copyright © 2002-2015  DuraSpace
Contact us | Send feedback | Administrator