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[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Construction reports 1944-98 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mike Murray and David Langford"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Oxford, : Blackwell Science, 2003"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-280-21358-2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786610213580"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-470-70938-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-470-75852-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-4051-4755-5"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (242 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"338.476240941"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Construction industry - Government policy - Great Britain"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Building"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 A review of reviews; 1.2 The ministries and the Ministers; 1.3 The drivers of the reports; 1.4 Recurring themes; 1.5 References; 2 Placing and Management of Building Contracts: The Simon Committee Report (1944); 2.1 Background to the study: the economic, political and social climate; 2.2 Main concerns of the report, conclusions and recommendations; 2.3 The impact of the report; 2.4 Conclusions; 2.5 References; 3 The Working Party Report to the Minister of Works: The Phillips Report on Building (1948-50)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"3.1 Methodology, approach to the study and preassumptions3.2 Contents; 3.3 Themes and weaknesses of the report; 3.4 Discussion; 3.5 Conclusions; 3.6 References; 4 Survey of Problems before the Construction Industry: A Report Prepared by Sir Harold Emmerson (1962); 4.1 Report brief; 4.2 The report; 4.3 The impact of Emmerson; 4.4 Conclusions; 4.5 References; 5 The Placing and Management of Contracts for Building and Civil Engineering Work: The Banwell Report (1964); 5.1 Introduction: the UK pre-Banwell economic and social environment; 5.2 Establishment of the Banwell Committee"]
[{"$nulls":4},"5.3 Findings of the Banwell Committee5.4 Contemporary view of the Banwell report; 5.5 Implementation of the Banwell recommendations; 5.6 Banwell: catalyst for change or overtaken by events; 5.7 References; "]
[{"$nulls":4},"6 Tavistock Studies into the Building Industry: Communications in the Building Industry (1965) and Interdependence and Uncertainty (1996); 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Britain in the early 1960s; 6.3 Building Industry Communications Research Project; 6.4 Executive summary of Communications in the Building Industry; 6.5 Executive summary of Interdependence and Uncertainty; 6.6 Impact of the reports"]
[{"$nulls":4},"6.7 Discussion and critique6.8 Conclusion; 6.9 References; 7 Large Industrial Sites Report (1970); 7.1 Background; 7.2 The context of the construction industry; 7.3 The report; 7.4 The content of the report; 7.5 The impact of the report; 7.6 References; 8 The Public Client and the Construction Industries: The Wood Report (1975); 8.1 Overview of the period; 8.2 Summary of the report; 8.3 Review of the report's impact; 8.4 Conclusion; 8.5 References; 9 Faster Building for Industry: NEDO (1983); 9.1 Overview of the economic, political and social scene 1978-83"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9.2 Faster Building for Industry - background and summary9.3 Impact of Faster Building for Industry; 9.4 Faster ... better ... or both?; 9.5 References; 10 Faster Building for Commerce: NEDO (1988); 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 The report's political, economic and industrial context; 10.3 The Faster Building for Commerce report; 10.4 A commentary; 10.5 Conclusions; 10.6 References; 11 Constructing the Team: The Latham Report (1994); 11.1 Background to the study: the economic, political and social climate; 11.2 The Constructing the Team report; 11.3 Post-Latham developments; 11.4 Final thoughts"]
[{"$nulls":4},"11.5 References"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","It is often said that in order to know where we are going, we need to know where we have been. For some years the construction industry has been challenged to deliver better performance in terms of value for money, timelier construction and defect free building. Behind this remodelling of an industry is Government. The interest by Government is not new, and report after report in the post war period has exhorted the industry to perform better. This book documents how Government, through influential reports, has sought to shape the performance and attitudes of parties to the construction"]