The smart estate : collaborative working with digital information management / Jason Challender, Akponanabofa Henry Oti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Inefficiency and poor predictability of delivery against success factors of time, cost and quality within the built environment have led to an inability to produce successful outcomes and deliver to clients' requirements. One of the critical symptoms of failure and poor performance has been identified as lack of collaboration, partnering and trust between contractual parties, coupled with a reluctance to embrace new digital technologies. As a consequence of these inherent difficulties, there is an absolute imperative for long-term transformational change, and I believe the UK construction industry is now at a critical juncture. The sector needs to be equipped with the tools to lead their project team in a way more akin to achieving successful outcomes. For this reason, coupled with the aforementioned challenges and deficiencies, the book has been tailored to address these problems in a concerted attempt to increase collaborative working and at the same time engage with new digital technologies such as building information modelling (BIM). This requires an informed, methodical and informed approach to roles and responsibilities and the impetus to explore and embrace digitalisation as a means to improve current practice. The methodology in doing so, is supported and facilitated in the book through the creation of 'step by step' practical guidance in most cases. This represents a unique, inventive and much welcomed pragmatic approach to construction management, from the perspective of clients and their project teams."-- Provided by publisher.

About the Author
Jason Challender is Director of Estates and Facilities at the University of Salford, a member of its Senior Leadership Team and Visiting Professor at the University of Bolton. He has over 30 years’ experience in procurement in a variety of major construction programmes and is a board member of the North West Construction Hub.

Akponanabofa Henry Oti is a lecturer in civil engineering at the University of Bolton, where he teaches a communications technology module, introducing students to information modelling using emerging BIM methodology, and BIM applications in construction project management and environmental management.