Implementing innovation in construction: contexts, relative boundedness and actor‐network theory

Harty, Chris

doi:10.1080/01446190802298413

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“…to projects costs, times), and a lot more besides; this point dovetails with similar recent arguments made within construction management research about the varied influence of technological objects on the building process (Bresnen and Harty, 2010;Harty, 2008;Lingard et al, 2012). In short, wildlife is far from simply a hostile and foreign domain for construction practitioners.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

“…Set against EIA, there has been a steadily growing interest in the active involvement of various non-human actors in construction management processes (see Bresnen and Harty, 2010;Harty, 2008;Lingard et al 2012;Ivory and Alderman, 2011;Sage, 2013). Much of the work around non-humans within construction management has been influenced by ANT (Latour, 2005), its derivatives and relations.…”

Section: The Politics Of Nature In Actor-network Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Buildingwithwildlife: project geographies and cosmopolitics in infrastructure construction

Sage¹,

Dainty

Tryggestad

et al. 2014

Construction Management and Economics

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Across many construction projects, and especially infrastructure projects, efforts to mitigate potential loss of biodiversity and habitat are significant concerns, and at times politically controversial. And yet, thus far, very little research has addressed the interplay of humans and animals within construction projects. Instead those interested in the politics and ethics of human-animal relations, or Animal Studies, have arguably focussed far more on more stable and contained sites, whether organisations like zoos, farms or laboratories, or other places like homes and parks. These largely ethnographic studies inevitably perhaps downplay the unplanned, unexpected and highly politically and ethically charged, collision of hitherto rather separate human and animal geographies. Yet, as we argue here, it is often within such colliding spaces, where animal geographies are unexpectedly found at the heart of human projects, that we formulate our respect and response to both animals, and indeed other humans. Here we examine such encounters conceptually, with reference to ActorNetwork Theory, and empirically, through case study analysis of two infrastructure projects. In doing so, we highlight the relevance of our analysis to both construction project management and other animal studies.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Section: The Politics Of Nature In Actor-network Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Buildingwithwildlife: project geographies and cosmopolitics in infrastructure construction

Sage¹,

Dainty

Tryggestad

et al. 2014

Construction Management and Economics

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“…The work of Latour is perhaps the most well-known version of what I have termed here the 'posthuman' condition, and his writing, unlike Haraway's, Barad's or Bradiotti's, has already made a noticeable impact in construction management (e.g. Harty, 2008;Lingard et al 2012;Trygesstad et al 2010;Sage et al 2014). Despite not deploying the term 'posthuman' (Latour's preferred argument is that 'we have never been human' -see Latour, 1993 Latour (1987) is far more explicit perhaps than these writers on the stabilizing dynamics of such interactions.…”

Section: Latour's (1987) Metrologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking construction expertise with posthumanism

Sage

2016

Construction Management and Economics

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Expertise is commonly understood to be a distinct, even defining, aspect of being human -an attribute related to our efficacies to come to know and influence the, mostly nonhuman, world around us. In construction, expertise is commonly defined as the acquisition of skill and knowledge related to new technical processes, organizational routines, health and safety codes, even cultural norms. Despite the development of rule-following 'expert systems' in construction and beyond, the proposal that nonhuman technologies and artefacts can share our expertise is thus to be regarded with doubt: humans are human because of their lived expertise to undertake tasks faster and better than machines and other nonhumans. Increasingly, however, this anthropocentric view of expertise can be challenged by a 'posthuman turn' that is gathering pace across the social sciences and humanities. In this paper I evaluate, via the work of four seminal posthuman thinkers, the distinct, and varied, contribution that posthumanism might make to how we understand notions of construction expertise. In so doing I draw upon fictional examples of construction practices to illustrate the challenge and theoretical and practical opportunities in rethinking construction expertise via posthumanism.

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“…In general, the construction industry is labor intensive and has issues with safety and sustainability. Compared with other industries, the construction industry is viewed as a low-tech industry with low levels of innovation [2]. The image of the construction industry may be changed by the adoption of AM techniques.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of Delay Time on the Mechanical Properties of Extrusion-Based 3D Printed Concrete

Marchment¹,

Xia²,

Dodd³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC)

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The extrusion-based 3D printing method is one of the main additive manufacturing techniques used in the construction industry which is capable of producing large-scale building components with complex geometries without the use of the expensive formwork. The mechanical properties of the printed concrete component are very much unlike the conventionally cast concrete. Therefore, the properties of these are important for the design of structures built with 3D printing process.In this study, a custom-made apparatus was used to simulate extrusion-based 3D printing process. Layered specimens with 10, 20 and 30 minutes delay time (i.e. the printing time interval between layers) have been printed using tailored conventional concrete mixture. Mechanical properties including compressive, flexural and inter-layer bonding strengths have been measured and the effect of delay time on the mechanical properties has been investigated.All printed specimens exhibited an anisotropic phenomenon in both compressive and flexural strengths. A significant inverted bell curve pattern emerged in the inter-layer bonding strength. The inter-layer bonding strength of the specimens with 10 minutes and 30 minutes delay time was similar, but higher than that of specimen with 20 minutes delay time. The major finding is that the surface moisture content plays a major role in the inter-layer bonding strength.

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Implementing innovation in construction: contexts, relative boundedness and actor‐network theory

Cited by 178 publications

References 31 publications

Buildingwithwildlife: project geographies and cosmopolitics in infrastructure construction

Buildingwithwildlife: project geographies and cosmopolitics in infrastructure construction

Rethinking construction expertise with posthumanism

Effect of Delay Time on the Mechanical Properties of Extrusion-Based 3D Printed Concrete

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