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PREFACE:

As US architect Frank Lloyd Wright wrote in the New York TimesMagazine (4 October 1953): The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. In the last 50 years, buildings have become more complicated, technology has continued at a relentless pace, work practices have changed, litigation abounds, globalization is a fact of life and we are all swamped with information.

 So why read another book about building best value buildings? The simple answer is that this book is vital to enhancing your knowledge. Today’s professional has to keep abreast of all the new developments in design, technology, building codes, and new materials and processes. 

Rick Best and Gerard de Valence have hit on the winning combination of knowing a lot about the design and construction industry and bringing together experts to write about the important issues in building today. Their last book, Building in value: pre-design issues, used the same format and has proved very successful. 

The editors have moulded a diverse range of topics into a coherent and interesting text. Everybody likes to think they are operating at the leading edge of their subject area, whether it be design, cost management, materials technology, or construction.

 If you want to stay at the leading edge, then you must read this book – it has taught me a lot about a wide range of topics. Remember – you don’t know what you don’t know! But building in value for whom? For the investor, developer, owner, designer, contractor, specialist contractor, or supply chain, who all played a part in the design and construction phases? Or for the customers, and the customers’ customers who will be involved in the whole life of the building? The editors have clearly considered these questions and have compiled a collection of expert views that cover the whole spectrum of construction, from inception to construction to operation. 

Today’s speed of change in new materials and communication technologies means we can no longer use the events of the past to predict the future. However, whatever the speed at which new technology is created, the changes are incremental, they do not all happen at once. Take, for example, the construction of tall buildings in the world:

 Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur relied upon advances in lift manufacture, e-commerce relies upon faster and faster processor speeds and communication advances, while nanotechnology provides.

an opportunity for scientists to make single molecules act like transistors – which makes computers the size of a sugar cube a possibility! The book recognizes the speed of change and includes sections on managing change and innovation, and future technologies, as well as dealing with today’s issues of constructability, occupational health and safety, lean construction, cost management, waste management, and quality assurance. The book represents value for money for both students and professionals alike.