TY - GEN
T1 - Engagement of industry in best practices research
AU - Gibson, G. Edward
AU - Whittington, Donald A.
PY - 2009/9/11
Y1 - 2009/9/11
N2 - Construction industry best practices research requires an interaction and feedback mechanism between industry respondents and academia. Typical research methods such as surveys, source document reviews, and structured interviews are typically used, but suffer from barriers which can hamper results. Examples of these barriers include low response rates, asynchronous communication, time commitment of the researchers and respondents, access to project data, and travel costs. Structured workshops (research "charrettes") are a unique and useful method for facilitating data collection between industry respondents and academic researchers. They combine the best tenets of surveys, interviews and focus groups in an accelerated time frame. This paper will explain how these workshops provide a critical avenue for industry interaction. Characteristics leading to successful charrettes will be outlined. The paper will conclude by describing the benefits of these workshops to researchersincluding lessons learned from successful workshops Copyright ASCE 2009.
AB - Construction industry best practices research requires an interaction and feedback mechanism between industry respondents and academia. Typical research methods such as surveys, source document reviews, and structured interviews are typically used, but suffer from barriers which can hamper results. Examples of these barriers include low response rates, asynchronous communication, time commitment of the researchers and respondents, access to project data, and travel costs. Structured workshops (research "charrettes") are a unique and useful method for facilitating data collection between industry respondents and academic researchers. They combine the best tenets of surveys, interviews and focus groups in an accelerated time frame. This paper will explain how these workshops provide a critical avenue for industry interaction. Characteristics leading to successful charrettes will be outlined. The paper will conclude by describing the benefits of these workshops to researchersincluding lessons learned from successful workshops Copyright ASCE 2009.
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U2 - 10.1061/41020(339)137
DO - 10.1061/41020(339)137
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:69949087759
SN - 9780784410202
T3 - Building a Sustainable Future - Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress
SP - 1348
EP - 1357
BT - Building a Sustainable Future - Proceedings of the 2009 Construction Research Congress
T2 - 2009 Construction Research Congress - Building a Sustainable Future
Y2 - 5 April 2009 through 7 April 2009
ER -