Research
Our activities and expertise are underpinned by the research carried out by the Construction Management Research Unit (CMRU) at the University of Dundee across the whole field of Construction and Project Management. We offer contract research services to organisations to help them find solutions to their problems. We are happy to undertake contract research to address problems related to the construction industry.
Our Expertise
Research in the CMRU is funded in roughly equal measure by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Current research topics include:
- Collecting consistent productivity data from construction sites
- Application of ILS to the development of cost effective maintenance strategies for existing building stock
- A generic approach to minimising whole life costs in the construction industry
The CMRU led a consortium of four Scottish and English Universities (SUE-MoT)in a £1.3m EPSRC funded project “Metrics, models and toolkits for whole life sustainable urban development”. At its heart lies the development of an Integrated Sustainability Assessment Toolkit (ISAT) which will allow key decision-makers to identify, prioritise and express in a common measure all the relevant issues for all the stakeholders in any given situation. The CMRU is also a member of the EPSRC-funded SURegen project that aims to provide guidance on the sustainability of urban regeneration projects.
Links
- University of Dundee's Construction Management Research Unit: CMRU
- Metrics Models and Toolkits for Sustainable Urban Environments: SUE-MoT
- Sustainable Urban Regeneration: SURegen
Further Details
For more information on research, please contact Prof Malcolm Horner at malcolm.horner@wlcuk.com or call 01382 224304.