Impact of participants' values on construction sustainability

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering Sustainability

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 219-227

  Fellows, Richard ^a   Liu, Anita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environment; Management; Social impact

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE TARGETS; PERFORMANCE VARIABLES; PROJECT PARTICIPANTS; PROJECT VALUES; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES; SOCIAL IMPACT;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 57849142478     PISSN: 14784629     EISSN: 17517680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/ensu.2008.161.4.219     Document Type: Article

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