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Yacine Rezgui and John Miles

Format: Book
Pages: 219
Publisher: Spon Press
Date Published: Feb 2011
Stock Code: 74157
ISBN: 9780415545969
Binding: Paperback

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A successful construction business is a knowledge business. And knowledge must be managed effectively to be used efficiently, especially in a complex project-oriented business such as construction, where skills acquired and lessons learned on one project need to be applied to the next.

A holistic approach to knowledge management (KM) is taken in this book to incorporate all of the relevant themes, tackling technological, socio-cultural and organisational issues, with the creation of value as a focus throughout. Information is drawn from a broad range of sources to explain core theories and provide guidance on practical application. Topics covered include:

changing business relationships in a knowledge economy
knowledge creation processes and theories
data, text and knowledge mining techniques
the learning construction organisation
future technology for knowledge management.

Written by the authors of the first EU-funded KM research project in the field of construction, this textbook is uniquely well-researched, and is the perfect introduction to KM for students across the built environment. It is also a crucial guide to the topic for practitioners.

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Yacine Rezgui

Yacine Rezgui is an architect by profession, with a PhD in Computer Integrated Construction. He was involved in early developments of product models for construction including STEP while at the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB) in France. After conducting research on areas relating to knowledge management and collaborative working at Salford University, he joined Cardiff University in 2008, where he is currently affiliated. He is also the Building Research Establishment chair in Sustainable Engineering in areas related to building resilience and adaptability.

John Miles

John Miles graduated from Manchester University in 1972 as a civil engineer. After some years spent in industry, he obtained his PhD at Birmingham University before being recruited by Cardiff University, where he is currently joint head of the Institute of Machines and Structures. His research there has been in the area of applying artificial intelligence and computational intelligence to the sort of decision-making challenges that routinely arise in engineering and other complex domains.

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