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  title info:
    title: Construction Quality and the Economy
    sub title: A Study at the Firm Level
  name:
    name part: Sui Pheng, Low.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Shing Hou, Lau.
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 268 p. 59 illus., 35 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book discusses the relationship between construction quality and the state of the Singapore national economy, and describes how construction quality is affected as contracting firms strategically manage issues relating to profitability and survivability during economic boom and bust cycles. Adopting a three-pronged approach to explain the key issues, the book first explains the effect of the state of the Singapore national economy (boom or bust) on the construction quality delivered by contracting firms. Secondly, it explains how contracting firms respond to the performance of the national economy through their dynamic bidding strategies, leading to significant quality trade-offs in some instances, especially when there is imprecise market information. Thirdly, it recommends various strategic measures that key stakeholders and government policy-makers can take to circumvent the quality trade-off in the construction industry when faced with dynamic fluctuations in the performance of the national economy. Although the book focuses on Singapore, it appeals to a global audience since countries worldwide (and their respective building-related stakeholders) face the same issues in terms of the time-cost-quality trade-off decision-making process involving the entire supply chain.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Economy and the Construction Industry -- Government's Role in a High Quality Built Environment -- Firm Characteristics and Strategies -- Firm's Trade-Off Decisions and Theory of Firm Behavior -- The Conceptual Framework -- Research Design and Methodology -- Survey Results Analysis and Discussion -- Case Study Results Analysis and Discussion -- Experts Interviews on Triangulated and Non-Triangulated Findings -- Conclusions. .
  note: by Low Sui Pheng, Lau Shing Hou.
  subject:
    topic: Building-Superintendence
  subject:
    topic: Construction industry-Management
  subject:
    topic: Construction superintendence
  subject:
    topic: Project management
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economy
  subject:
    topic: Construction Management
  subject:
    topic: Project Management
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
  classification: TH438
  classification: 624
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Management in the Built Environment
  identifier: 9789811358470
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5847-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 190108
    record change date: 20191027152732.0
    record identifier: 978-981-13-5847-0