1st Edition

Environmental Management in Construction A Quantitative Approach

By Zhen Chen, Heng Li Copyright 2006
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Demands on the construction industry are changing, and it is now virtually essential for environmental management to be considered at all stages of a project. Many construction managers are finding a quantitative approach useful, and this book outlines four quantitative methods which can be applied at different construction stages, and which fit within a comprehensive framework of dynamic... Read more

1. Introduction  2. E+: An Integrative Methodology  3. Quantitative Evaluation at Pre-Construction Stage  4. Quantitative Evaluation at Construction Stage  5. Quantitative Approaches at Post-Construction Stage  6. Knowledge-Driven Quantitative Evaluation

Biography

Zhen Chen is Research Fellow of the Innovative Design and Construction for People Project at the University of Reading. He is the author of more than 70 research publications and reports on construction engineering and management topics. His previous books include Intelligent Methods in Construction and Handbook of Building Construction.

Heng Li is Professor in the Department of Building and Real Estate at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has published more than 100 papers and his previous books include Machine Learning of Design Concepts and Implementing IT to obtain a competitive advantage in the 21st Century. He is a review editor of the International Journal of Automation in Construction.

'Clear-cut and to the point, and the book has a wealth of information' - Building Engineer