Critique of Construction’s Paradigm from Existing State of the Art Research
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Lorch 2003, as quoted by International Symposium (2007), suggests that the focus of the construction industry has been on the ‘know-how’ rather than the ‘knowwhy’. This bias towards the ‘know-how’ may be the cause for construction’s deficiency in theories (Koskela and Howard 2002a, b). It is argued that in construction “there is a generalized failure to explore the behavioural, environmental and managerial theories that help us link our infrastructures into the wider social and economic issues vital to the long term future of our communities and our environment” (Call for papers, International Symposium 2007). The increasing focus on the impact of the built environment on the global ecosystem (Stern 2006) has provided further impetus for the need to understand the ‘know-why’ rather than just provide a catalogue of ‘know-how’ or the ‘know-how-better’. A debate on the ‘know-why’ of process improvement requires a survey of the existing state of the art research to discern the ‘theories’ that underlies the research on processes. Research is understood to be at the boundary between science and technology, between theory and practice, between ‘know-why’ and ‘know-how’. A critique of existing state-of-the-art research serves as the background to discern construction’s ruling paradigm.
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