Construction innovation /

• Other Authors: Ørstavik, Finn (Editor), Dainty, Andrew (Editor), Abbott, Carl (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
• Series: Innovation in the built environment.
• Subjects: Civil engineering > Technological innovations.; Construction industry > Technological innovations.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Civil > General.; Electronic books.

Construction innovation is an important but contested concept, both in industry practice and academic reflection and research. A fundamental reason for this is the nature of the construction industry itself: the industry and the value creation activities taking place there are multi-disciplinary, he...

Table of Contents:

• Incentives for innovation in construction
• Built-in innovation and the ambiguity of designing accessibility
• Stakeholder integration champions and innovation in the built environment
• Grassroots innovation in the construction industry
• Stakeholder integration champions and innovation in the built environment
• An industrial network perspective on innovation in construction
• Innovation diffusion across firms
• Clients shaping construction innovation
• Innovation in road building : removing obstacles for diffusion of novel building products
• Innovating for integration : clients as drivers of industry improvement
• Project delivery systems and innovation : the case of us road building
• The leitmotif of building-products innovation in Finland : from commercial technology exploitation to sustainable development.