Milan Radosavljevic & John Bennett 
Construction Management Strategies 
A Theory of Construction Management

An authoritative textbook on construction management offering a clear model for understanding theoretical aspects.

The construction industry has become a truly global network of interconnected stakeholders making demands which require the involvement of skilled workforces from all over the world. Construction Management Strategies sets the foundations for understanding and managing construction’s inherent complexity and uniqueness. It establishes clear definitions of commonly accepted terms like built environment, construction, civil engineering, etc. which are often given confusing and conflicting interpretations. It cuts through the plethora of overlapping role titles currently used in the construction sector that make it difficult to establish how projects are actually managed.

Construction Management Strategies:

* Offers a robust and consistent theoretical basis to explain the performance of the main approaches to construction management.

* Describes corporate and project management in construction as an integrated whole.

* Provides the basic toolkit a student needs to think through the practical situations they will later face.

* Helps bring the theory of construction management to international students who struggle to find a solid grounding in this complex and fragmented subject.

* Includes a companion website featuring a wealth of directly transferable examples for students, as well as PPT slides and topic discussion ideas for lecturers.

Table of Content

Preface

The Authors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction and Background

Chapter 2: The Built Environment

Chapter 3: Construction Concepts

Chapter 4: Theory of Construction Management

Chapter 5: Traditional Construction

Chapter 6: Design Build

Chapter 7: Management Approaches

Chapter 8: Partnering

Chapter 9; Total Construction Service

Chapter 10: Implications for Industry

Chapter 11: The Future for Construction Management

Appendix: Theory of Construction Management Propositions

Glossary

Index

About the author

Milan Radosavljevic, Lecturer in the University of Reading’s
School of Construction Management and Engineering following several
years as a Demonstration Projects Coordinator for Scotland and as a
Production Director within an off-site construction company in
Central Europe. His award winning Ph D research used chaos theory in
the development of the novel Process Planning Methodology. He is
Director of the prestigious Reading MSc in Project Management and
his interests are focused on the role of Building Information
Modelling in production management within the Total Construction
Service strategy.

John Bennett, Professor in the University of Reading’s
Department of Construction Management & Engineering for 25
years following 20 years of successful practice in the UK and
internationally, founding editor of the leading journal,
Construction Management and Economics, and Director of the
University’s Centre for Strategic Studies in Construction
throughout its 12 years of influential research and publishing. The
hallmarks of his academic career are researching international best
practice and describing the essential messages in clear practical
terms. This has established his reputation as one of the founding
fathers of the construction management discipline.