CEM Research for the Next 50 Years: Maximizing Economic, Environmental, and Societal Value of the Built Environment1
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 133, Issue 9
Abstract
Construction engineering and management (CEM) research over the past 50 years has focused on extending and applying management and computer science approaches to minimize cost during the implementation phase of construction projects. Three emerging trends suggest the need to broaden the frame of future CEM research in several ways: (1) more integrated delivery of design, planning, construction, and operation of buildings and infrastructure requires us to broaden the focus of construction engineering and management research across the entire facility lifecycle; (2) rapid globalization of the construction industry requires new governance structures for projects that can bridge across the gaps in values, beliefs, norms, work practices, and laws between participants from different countries; and (3) heightened global awareness of, and demands for, enhanced sustainability requires new approaches, methods, and tools to incorporate sustainability issues in the early phases of the facility development process. Building on ASCE’s 2006 Vision for the Future of Civil Engineering. This paper elaborates each of these three trends and draws implications for refocusing and redirecting construction engineering and management research, education, and civic leadership in the next 50 years.
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Received: Apr 4, 2007
Accepted: May 2, 2007
Published online: Sep 1, 2007
Published in print: Sep 2007
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The ideas in this paper were previously presented to the Construction Research Council meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers on October 21, 2006 as the writer’s 21st Annual Peurifoy Award Lecture during the ASCE 2006 Annual Convention in Chicago, Ill.
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