LePatner, Barry B.
Broken buildings, busted budgets how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry / [electronic resource] : Barry B. LePatner, with Timothy Jacobson and Robert E. Wright. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - x, 229 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-215) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Uk
Construction industry--History.--United States
Construction industry--Management.--United States
Electronic books.
HD9715.U52 / L46 2007eb
338.4/76900973
Broken buildings, busted budgets how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry / [electronic resource] : Barry B. LePatner, with Timothy Jacobson and Robert E. Wright. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - x, 229 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-215) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Uk
Construction industry--History.--United States
Construction industry--Management.--United States
Electronic books.
HD9715.U52 / L46 2007eb
338.4/76900973