Construction skills training for the next millennium

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 569-580

  Gann, David ^a   Senker, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business process change; Construction skills; Innovation; New technology; Training

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

BUSINESS PROCESS CHANGE; CONSTRUCTION PERFORMANCE; CONSTRUCTION SKILLS; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS; TECHNICAL INNOVATION; TRAINING INSTITUTIONS; TRAINING PROGRAMMES;

BINARY ALLOYS;

EID: 0038279149     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461998372105     Document Type: Article

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