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Construction and Project Management

Within the Construction and Project Management research sub-group ( Prof Malcolm Horner FRSE, Mr Andy Munns, Dr Motiar Rahman), the Construction Management Research Unit (CMRU) is the principal vehicle for undertaking research across a broad spectrum of topics. The recent focus of CMRU is directed at:

  1. The application of lean thinking to the construction industry;
  2. Chaos in productivity data;
  3. Computerised planning and productivity improvement programmes;
  4. Whole life costing and sustainability, maintenance management;
  5. The application of Integrated Logistics Support to the construction industry;
  6. Procurement relationships (e.g trust and mutual confidence factors affecting procurement processes) in the construction team; and
  7. Barriers to the acceptance by the construction industry of research and innovation process developments.

Synergy has been developed with the University of Dundee Centre for Enterprise Management, where research focuses on knowledge transfer and on the determinants of successful change at the project and organisational levels.

Research in Construction & Project Management is sponsored by the EPSRC and industry in roughly equal measure. Industrial collaborators include the UK's largest contractor (Skanska), consulting engineers W S Atkins), and residential social landlord (Home Group). The Unit leads a consortium comprising Loughborough, St Andrews and Glasgow Caledonian Universities that has been awarded £1.5m from the EPSRC in the last two years (http://www.sue-mot.org). The Unit is a leading academic partner in the newly established Scottish Construction Centre with funding of £2.7m from Scottish Enterprise, and has been commissioned by ConstructionSkills to develop national labour coefficients and a labour forecasting tool.

A new company, Whole Life Consultants Ltd, has been set up to commercialise the research.

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