... material selection in the UK building industry. Design/methodology/approach After conducting a thorough and systematic literature review, a total of 24 sustainable assessment criteria (SAC) based on the triple bottom line and the need of building stakeholders were identified. A survey of UK architects...

...ANNE M. LANDIN; MATS H. PERSSON Quality systems are being adopted by the Swedish building industry to an increasing degree. The present paper examines two categories of specialist contractors — electrical contractors, and plumbing, heating and ventilation contractors — and the introduction...

... factors which contributed to the divergence between the long‐term trends of the prices of construction resources and outputs. One of the conclusions is that, for the past 25 years, the productive efficiency of the Hong Kong building industry has benefited from and been greatly upgraded by imported...

... to the supplier in order to get the right materials to the building site. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Building industry Categorizing of information Information flow Logistics Materials flow Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 1994 1 | 2, 139-146 Information for the management...