Engineering and Construction Management

A book designed to prepare students for the writing of a dissertation, providing examples from Engineering and Scientific fields

This book is full of practical advice and useful examples to help students and engineers write clearly, accurately and impressively. This updated fourth edition features new material on technical notes, inspection reports and business cases, along with abstracts and summaries. It is an essential aid for today's engineers.

Dissertation Research and Writing for Built Environment Students is the essential guide to get students through their final year research project. Trusted and developed over three previous editions, the new fourth edition shows you how to select a dissertation topic, write a proposal, conduct a literature review, select the research approach, gather the data, analyse and present the information and ultimately produce a well-written dissertation. The book simplifies dissertation research and writing into a process involving a sequence of learnable activities and divides the process into three parts. Part one covers the necessary ground work including: identifying the problem, writing a proposal and reviewing the literature. Part two covers the research design and includes: approaches and techniques for data collection and constructing and sampling a questionnaire. Part three covers: measurement of data, analysis of data with SPSS, structuring and writing the whole dissertation, and supervision and assessment. This new edition is packed with updated examples and research samples making this is the ideal resource for students involved in research in Built Environment subjects such as Construction Management, Facilities Management, Real Estate, Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying and Civil Engineering.