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Matching values and value in construction and design
journal contribution
posted on 2009-07-22, 09:09 authored by Hannah Devine-Wright, Derek ThomsonDerek Thomson, Simon AustinIn response to a series of influential government reports that have been critical of the
approaches taken by, and outputs of, the UK construction industry, human aspects of
construction have been given a new significance, particularly issues of value as judged
by diverse stakeholders. This paper seeks to relate diverse and applied notions of value
in construction with a similarly diverse body of knowledge contained within social and
environmental psychology on values, from the work of Maslow and others in the 1950s
and 1960s, to more recent contributions by Schwartz and colleagues. Collectively, the
paper describes the work of an inter-disciplinary team with the active participation of
key stakeholders in construction: professional organisations, practitioners, construction
companies, clients and end product users, focused upon the search for a new 'language
of value' that can aid the adoption of innovative conceptualisations of value within the
industry. Finally, an innovative framework of value is presented that has been
developed for design practitioners in the non-domestic building industry.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Citation
DEVINE-WRIGHT, H.M., THOMSON, D.S. and AUSTIN, S.A., 2003. Matching values and value in construction and design. IN: Craig, T. (ed.). Crossing Boundaries : the Value of Interdisciplinary Research : Proceedings of the Third Conference of the EPUK (Environmental Psychology in the UK) Network, the Robert Gordon University 23rd-25th June 2003. Aberdeen : Robert Gordon University, pp 42-51.Publisher
© Robert Gordon UniversityVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2003Notes
This is a conference paper.ISBN
1901085732;9781901085730Language
- en