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Alao, O O and Jagboro, G O (2017) Assessment of causative factors for project abandonment in Nigerian public tertiary educational institutions. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 35(01), 41–62.
Bendixen, M and Koch, C (2007) Negotiating visualizations in briefing and design. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 42–53.
Bresnen, M (2017) Being careful what we wish for? Challenges and opportunities afforded through engagement with business and management research. Construction Management and Economics, 35(01), 24-34.
Ewenstein, B and Whyte, J K (2007) Visual representations as ‘artefacts of knowing’. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 81–9.
Gerges, M, Mayouf, M, Rumley, P and Moore, D (2017) Human behaviour under fire situations in high-rise residential building. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 35(01), 90–106.
Hallowell, M R, Alexander, D and Gambatese, J A (2017) Energy-based safety risk assessment: Does magnitude and intensity of energy predict injury severity?. Construction Management and Economics, 35(01), 64-77.
Hartmann, T and Fischer, M (2007) Supporting the constructability review with 3D/4D models. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 70–80.
Henderson, K (2007) Achieving legitimacy: visual discourses in engineering design and green building code development. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 6–17.
Heylighen, A, Neuckermans, H, Casaer, M and Dewulf, G P M (2007) Building memories. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 90–100.
Kayan, B A (2017) Green maintenance for heritage buildings: paint repair appraisal. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 35(01), 63–89.
Koskela, L (2017) Why is management research irrelevant?. Construction Management and Economics, 35(01), 4-23.
Luck, R (2007) Using artefacts to mediate understanding in design conversations. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 28–41.
Sacks, R, Seppänen, O, Priven, V and Savosnick, J (2017) Construction flow index: A metric of production flow quality in construction. Construction Management and Economics, 35(01), 45-63.
Spennemann, D H, Pike, M and Watson, M J (2017) Effects of acid pigeon excreta on building conservation. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 35(01), 2–15.
Styre, A (2017) Thinking about materiality: The value of a construction management and engineering view. Construction Management and Economics, 35(01), 35-44.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: material agency; materiality; matter; sociomaterial practices; social sciences; construction
- ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2016.1272760
- Abstract:
The increased interest for materiality as an analytical category in the social sciences provide construction management and economics scholar with new possibilities to better exploit the detailed empirical data being collected in the construction industry and related fields. While constructivist and other idealist theories have tended to dominate the social sciences since at least the mid-sixties when the social sciences sought to release itself from the methodological dogmatism of the "hard sciences", materiality is now recognized and subject to theorizing within different social science traditions. This article advocates a broad engagement with materiality within construction management research and presents a series of analytical concepts and empirical studies that stress how the built environment that human beings inhabit is far from passive, inert and stable as common sense thinking easily misleads analysts to believe. An image of materiality that recognizes an agential, dynamic and more fluid nature of materiality is thus arguably conducive to an intellectually stimulating construction management scholarship.;The increased interest for materiality as an analytical category in the social sciences provide construction management and economics scholar with new possibilities to better exploit the detailed empirical data being collected in the construction industry and related fields. While constructivist and other idealist theories have tended to dominate the social sciences since at least the mid-sixties when the social sciences sought to release itself from the methodological dogmatism of the "hard sciences", materiality is now recognized and subject to theorizing within different social science traditions. This article advocates a broad engagement with materiality within construction management research and presents a series of analytical concepts and empirical studies that stress how the built environment that human beings inhabit is far from passive, inert and stable as common sense thinking easily misleads analysts to believe. An image of materiality that recognizes an agential, dynamic and more fluid nature of materiality is thus arguably conducive to an intellectually stimulating construction management scholarship.;
Traska, G (2007) Designing renovation: the building as planning material. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 54–69.
Unwin, S (2007) Analysing architecture through drawing. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 101–10.
Whyte, J K, Ewenstein, B, Hales, M and Tidd, J (2007) Visual practices and the objects used in design. Building Research & Information, 35(01), 18–27.
Zuhaib, S, Manton, R, Hajdukiewicz, M, Keane, M M and Goggins, J (2017) Attitudes and approaches of Irish retrofit industry professionals towards achieving nearly zero-energy buildings. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 35(01), 16–40.