Broken buildings, busted budgets : how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry /
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Overbudget and overdue
- The economic context of construction
- False starts and frustrated beginnings: a history of the industry
- Asymmetric information: the big barrier to change
- Minor blemishes: unions, workers, and government
- Fixing the construction industry: consolidation, intermediaries, and innovation
- Practical advice to owners for getting started now
- Notes.