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Assaf, S, Hassanain, M A and Abdallah, A (2018) Review and assessment of the causes of deficiencies in design documents for large construction projects. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 300–17.
Atkinson, G (2008) Sustainability, the capital approach and the built environment. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 241–7.
Bowen, P, Govender, R, Edwards, P and Cattell, K (2018) Work-related contact, work-family conflict, psychological distress and sleep problems experienced by construction professionals: An integrated explanatory model. Construction Management and Economics, 36(03), 153-74.
Bröchner, J (2018) Construction economics and economics journals. Construction Management and Economics, 36(03), 175-80.
Cairns, G (2008) Advocating an ambivalent approach to theorizing the built environment. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 280–9.
Defoe, P S (2018) The consideration of trees in rights of light cases Part 2. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 318–32.
Gerges, M, Penn, S, Moore, D, Boothman, C and Liyanage, C (2018) Multi-storey residential buildings and occupant’s behaviour during fire evacuation in the UK. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 234–53.
Hillier, B (2008) Space and spatiality: what the built environment needs from social theory. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 216–30.
Moffatt, S and Kohler, N (2008) Conceptualizing the built environment as a social–ecological system. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 248–68.
Ofori-Boadu, A N, Abrokwah, R Y, Gbewonyo, S and Fini, E (2018) Effect of swine-waste bio-char on the water absorption characteristics of cement pastes. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 283–99.
Rabeneck, A (2008) A sketch-plan for construction of built environment theory. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 269–79.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: built environment; conceptual frameworks; instrumentalism; prediction; schema; systems of inquiry; theory-building; usefulness
- ISBN/ISSN: 0961-3218
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613210801928115
- Abstract:
Theory is needed to explain conflicts between the intrinsic conceptual frameworks of construction: that governing what to build? and that governing how to build? The conflicts throw up uncertainties to be addressed by the strategies of building. But theorizing about the built environment has tended to be partial, suffering from growing separation between building design, construction and use, and recently from legacy concepts inherited from modernism that result in sometimes dangerously uneven explanations. Limitations of some present theoretical approaches are explained. A hypothetical scheme, a sketch-plan for theoretical discourse, is proposed based on the human transactional basis of construction-demand, regulation, supply-broad enough to unite design, use and production, and to provide a platform for applied research. A methodological regime of instrumentalism is proposed to underpin research, encourage model-building, and ensure the usefulness of the theory for practice, without which it would not be worthwhile. The scheme of the discourse aims to provide a meeting ground for the conflicted conceptual frameworks of construction.
Sherratt, F (2018) Shaping the discourse of worker health in the UK construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 36(03), 141-52.
Simpson, E, Bradley, D and O’Keeffe, J (2018) Failure is an option: an innovative engineering curriculum. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 268–82.
Szentes, H (2018) Reinforcing cycles involving inter- and intraorganizational paradoxical tensions when managing large construction projects. Construction Management and Economics, 36(03), 125-40.
Vischer, J C (2008) Towards a user-centred theory of the built environment. Building Research & Information, 36(03), 231–40.
Wang, W, Zhang, S and Pasquire, C (2018) Factors for the adoption of green building specifications in China. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation, 36(03), 254–67.