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Nature of the Construction Industry

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Construction Productivity in the Multilayer Subcontracting System

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This chapter provides insight on the characteristics of construction industries found globally and their commonalities. It presents the subcontracting practices in the industry and highlights the high number of project participants, each with their distributed responsibilities, as they provide information, knowledge, and manpower resources during the construction process and deliver the final product to the client at the end of the process. This resulted in a complex network organisation arising from segregation in the industry. This chapter highlights the multi-cultural, multi-location, multi-disciplinary, and multi-organisational nature of the project participants.

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Sui Pheng, L., Jia Zheng, S. (2019). Nature of the Construction Industry. In: Construction Productivity in the Multilayer Subcontracting System. Management in the Built Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1831-3_2

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