Construction Management

Core research topics include:

Construction Management:

• Mega construction projects, procurement, knowledge management and innovation, risk management
• Equality, gender, diversity, welfare and modern slavery
• Innovation in teaching, lifelong, blended and distance learning, apprenticeships and conversion courses
• Leadership, ethics and professionalism in the built environment

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Economics:

• Project financing models (e.g. public private partnerships (PPP), carbon finance to mitigate climate change
• Market structure, growth strategies (e.g. mergers and acquisition, joint ventures, internationalisation in the construction market)
• Life cycle and carbon cost planning, waste management
• Real estate, international property investment, strategic asset management

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Integrated Delivery:

• Integrated models such as joint venture, public private partnerships
• Tools for integrated delivery (e.g. big data analytics for process improvement, Building information modelling (BIM) for collaborative work, the management and integration of data for the built environment).

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Other areas:

• Sustainability
• Disaster management
• Resilience
• Climate change working

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