Routledge Handbook of Construction Project Procurement and Delivery: Fundamentals, Trends and Imperatives

This Handbook provides the knowledge needed to design and deploy proactive Construction Project Procurement and Delivery systems, based on essentials, while addressing emerging construction industry imperatives in order to boost overall performance.

Part One of the Handbook provides an overview; while Part Two provides the fundamentals with fresh insights into the building blocks and trends in performance-linked procurement and delivery, including: procurement strategies and commercial priorities, project briefs and management plans, design management, stakeholder management, risk management, ethics and professionalism, team building, information and knowledge management, digital aids, conflict, claims and dispute management, collaborative contracting, relationship-based teamworking, and linking to built asset management.

Part Three explores and expands on specific trends including sub-contractor selection, BIM in Project Cost Management, off-site and modern methods of construction, 4IR technologies, and building in circular economy, supply chain resilience and social value imperatives in this domain.

While other books describe standard processes or focus on specific strategies such as 'Design & Build', 'Target Cost Contracting' or 'Integrated Project Delivery', this Handbook presents the fundamentals of such processes and protocols together with invited specialist insights into growing trends and imperatives into holistic procurement and delivery.

Those who could benefit from this Handbook include academics, researchers, postgraduate students, policy makers and administrators, managers in both public and private sectors involved with planning and overseeing Construction Project Procurement and/or Delivery, as well as undergraduates looking for a balanced introduction and useful insights into what is critical to the success of construction projects, organisations and the industry itself.