Construction Innovation: Volume 11 Issue 4

Client's championing characteristics that promote construction innovation

Kushan Kulatunga, Udayangani Kulatunga, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh

Clients or users of products, processes or services are currently being identified as potential sources of innovation in construction. There are concerns about the degree of…

User‐driven innovation in a construction material supply network

Søren Wandahl, Alexia Jacobsen, Astrid Heidemann Lassen, Søren Bolvig Poulsen, Henrik Sørensen

User‐driven innovation (UDI) has been proven to successfully increase the value of products and services in single companies with direct linkages to the end‐user. The construction…

A methodology for evaluating construction innovation constraints through project stakeholder competencies and FMEA

Martina Murphy, George Heaney, Srinath Perera

The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology for extracting innovation constraints from building projects through stakeholder management competencies and failure mode and…

Colleges as agents for construction innovation

Roy Morledge

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the low level of adoption of innovative products in the UK. The paper presents a case study conducted for investigating the potential for…

Adopting innovative procurement techniques: Obstacles and drivers for adopting public private partnerships in New Zealand

Tingting Liu, Suzanne Wilkinson

Although public‐private partnerships (PPPs) have been used internationally, the New Zealand Government has only recently started to consider using PPPs to deliver public assets…

Innovations in domotics: fulfilling potential or hampered by prevailing technological regime?

Emilia L.C. van Egmond‐de Wilde de Ligny, Masi Mohammadi

The purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning, as well as the drivers, of innovation in theory and practice for gaining insight into the reasons why the diffusion of…

Global innovation: generic responses to the need for innovation in the construction industry

John E. Tookey

Special issue on Addressing global challenges for a sustainable built environment