ABSTRACT

Building Education and Research explores this new active area of research in a series of papers by internationally acclaimed experts, presented at the CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research held in July 1998 (BEAR `98) in Brisbane, Australia. Sponsored in collaboratio jointly by the Queensland University of Technology, the Conseil International du Batiment (CIB) and the Australian Institute of Building (AIB), the conference was organised around the theme `Building Research and Education Beyond 2000' and looks at the factors that are changing the requirements of building education and research: economic and technological concerns; environmental concerns; government policies; Industries' demands; re-evaluation of community expectations.

part One|127 pages

Plans and Strategies for the Future

chapter |5 pages

Clemson University Graduate Distance Learning Program

Option for worldwide education

chapter |7 pages

Delivery of postgraduate programmes in construction management in UK

An industrial perspective

chapter |10 pages

Matching employer and graduate competency and skills expectations

Construction and real estate professional degrees

chapter |8 pages

Partnering 2000

An international undergraduate curriculum in electrical construction management

part Two|63 pages

Internationalisation

chapter |9 pages

Construction project managers and computer usage

An international review

chapter |7 pages

Reconstructing the team

part Three|103 pages

Innovative Teaching

chapter |6 pages

Undergraduate course and programme monitoring and assessment

A three dimensional approach

part Four|67 pages

Continuing Education and Re-Education

chapter |6 pages

Contract learningin higher education

Encouraging autonomous learning by making university learning authentic

chapter |7 pages

‘Do what I do, not what I say?'

Practice in built environment education

chapter |5 pages

The ‘design build evaluate' loop

The role of the facility manager

chapter |7 pages

The use of distance education

Continuing education of professionals in the construction industry—a case study