1st Edition

Applying a Systems Thinking Approach to the Construction Industry

By Michael Siebert Copyright 2024
220 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 63 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry. Using the UK housing sector as a case study, Mike Siebert applies a Systems Thinking approach to tackling some of the shared 'Wicked Problems' faced by an industry that urgently needs to boost its... Read more

Part I - What are we trying to do; What’s stopping us?; How could we approach it differently

Chapter 1 – Defining the Sectors

Chapter 2 – Drivers for Change: The government perspective on what the industry needs to do

Chapter 3 – Barriers to Change: The industry perspective on what the government needs to understand

Chapter 4 – The Methodology for Change

Part II - What ‘approaching it differently’ could achieve

Chapter 5 – Political Intervention: pushing the right buttons at the right time

Chapter 6 – Industry Intervention: changing the message to fit the audience

Chapter 7 – The Missing Tools: the tools we need, how to build them, and how to promote them

Chapter 8 – Applying these tools to solve the Housing Industry’s crisis

Biography

Mike Siebert is a practising architect, active researcher and founder of Ecologic Homes Consultancy Ltd. He has advised Nottingham City Council, lectured and tutored at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent Univerisy, and worked with the Construction Innovation Hub to help deliver the UK government’s latest initiatives aimed at transforming the construction industry, including the Platform Design Approach and the Value Toolkit.