ABSTRACT

This book presents the proceedings of an international symposium which aimed to establish at the highest level the best practice and research in three important scientific and technical themes within the domain of residential buildings across the European Community: quality management and liability building economics construction management. In addition the symposium will discuss the future evolution and development of each theme.

part |1 pages

PART ONE —MANAGEMENT

chapter 1|9 pages

The client’s brief: a holistic view

chapter 21|7 pages

The use of MRPII-concept in housing

chapter 28|6 pages

A multivariate approach to optimal bidding

chapter 33|8 pages

Civil engineering project support systems

part |1 pages

Part two Quality

chapter 38|7 pages

Quality control in the design process

chapter 42|10 pages

QA: a step in the right direction?

chapter 48|11 pages

The graphology of inspection and planning

chapter 65|12 pages

Quality management in the building firm

chapter 66|11 pages

Quality assurance in UK housebuilding

chapter 69|9 pages

Sources of quality failures in building

chapter 76|8 pages

Efficacy of spaciofunctional standards

chapter 79|10 pages

Quality in EEC construction processes

chapter 85|9 pages

Danish quality management-the ten steps

chapter 89|10 pages

Problems encountered in plan evaluation

chapter 91|4 pages

Accoustic conditioning of buildings

chapter 95|4 pages

Qualitel method and label

part |1 pages

Part three Economics

chapter 106|11 pages

A maze of measurement methods

chapter 111|11 pages

The general building preservation plan (GBPP)

chapter 123|15 pages

Economics of the residential areas

chapter 134|11 pages

Cost-optimal flexibility of housing supply

chapter 141|9 pages

Resource utilization in housing production

chapter 145|15 pages

Refurbishment of the ‘Dennis-Wild House’

part |1 pages

Part Four Information technology

chapter 153|10 pages

The technology of change

chapter 154|7 pages

CAD in structural design of buildings

chapter 159|13 pages

ICADS: an intelligent building design system

chapter 164|18 pages

CAD-‘ArchiCad’ in housing

part |1 pages

Part five Policy

chapter 172|9 pages

The Dutch building industry in the 1990s

chapter 180|7 pages

Building company failures

chapter 184|10 pages

Housing subsidies in Western Europe

chapter 189|10 pages

Housing system rationalization model