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Adams, F K (2004) The management of risks in international infrastructural projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Ahiaga-Dagbui, D D (2014) Rethinking construction cost overruns: an artificial neural network approach to construction cost estimation, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Al-Remal, A M (2013) Risk-based design of structures for fire, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Alsedairy, F S (2019) Dynamics of mega infrastructure decision-making in Saudi Arabia, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Baker, A J (2019) ‘Suitable and sufficient’? UK regulation of post-construction fire safety, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Social & Political Science, University of Edinburgh.
Baker, H (2021) A multimethod approach to learning from text-based construction failure data, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Bartlett, A I (2018) Auto-extinction of engineered timber, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Campbell, J M (2008) Safety hazard and risk identification and management in infrastructure management, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Dunlop, P G (2005) Investigation, modelling and planning of stochastic concrete placing operations, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Eid, M E M (2004) Rethinking relationships in the construction industry: integrating sustainable development into project management processes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh.
French, T R (2012) Evolutionary optimisation of network flow plans for emergency movement in the built environment, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Furber, A (2013) The social and cultural context of rural water and sanitation projects: case studies from Ghana, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Glendinning, M (1991) 'Give the people homes!': Britain's multi-storey housing drive, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.
Graham, D (2005) Stochastic modelling and analysis of construction processes, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Hashim, R (2018) Green innovation adoption in the construction sector : the role of absorptive capacity and the effect of environmental requirements, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Business School, University of Edinburgh.
Hellowell, M S (2012) Fair return for risk? An examination of structure, competition and profitability in the market for private finance in the National Health Service, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.
Hsiao, C C (2000) Constructing a sustainable impact assessment methodology : an evaluation of Taiwanese EIA of high-rise building, Unpublished PhD Thesis, College of Art, University of Edinburgh.
Jackson, D J (2020) Addressing the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry: a multi-perspective approach, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Business School, University of Edinburgh.
Jiménez-Moreno, P (2020) Mass customisation for zero energy housing: the potential of Japanese manufacturing practices in the context of sustainable housebuilding in the United Kingdom, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Kanellopoulos, G (2022) External fire spread from timber lined compartments, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Kim, S (1998) Sustainable building practices: minimising the life-cycle environmental impact of high-rise apartments in Korea, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh.
Knebel, V (2006) Preserve and rebuild: the built environment, status transformations and identity construction in eastern Germany after reunification, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh.
Koutsomarkos, V (2023) Developing a fire robustness index for the built environment, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Marquardt, G (2017) Economic analysis of contract choice, feelings of entitlement and contract enforcement in relationships governed by incomplete contracts, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Economics, University of Edinburgh.
McArthur, J (2023) Enrolment, technical mediation, and the obligatory passage point: a socio-technical examination of the Canada Green Building Council, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
McMeel, D (2009) The artistry of construction: an investigation into construction as a creative process and the influence of mobile phones within domestic scale construction projects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh.
Oliver, A K (2020) Perceptions of sustainability and their influence in the design and delivery of Scottish housing, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Oswald, D (2016) Investigating unsafe acts on a large multinational construction project, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Raman, P G (1977) Information and architectural design: A study of certain theoretical aspects, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Rodger, R G (1976) Scottish urban housebuilding, 1870-1914, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: building industry; commercial; employment; housebuilding; investment; migration; population; uncertainty; England
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- URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18586
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The initial stages of this study are confined to establishing a sound documentary, methodological and statistical basis for subsequent analysis of the forces determining housebuilding fluctuations in numerous Scottish burghs. Thus, at the outset attention is concentrated on the strengths and weaknesses of the major data source, the Dean of Guild Court building permits. The strengths of this source prevailing, the various indices are constructed on a comparable basis both in terms of technique and base years to studies of English housebuilding fluctuations. The duration and severity of Scottish urban housebuilding fluctuations are investigated at a national, regional and individual burgh level and are related both to the entire period of 1870-1914 and its sub-periods. The amplitude and periodicity of Scottish housebuilding cycles are also considered in relation to those in England and Wales. One of the important themes is the inter-relationship of housebuilding with other types of building work. Thus, some attention is devoted to the trends of industrial and commercial construction, public building and jobbing work such as small alterations and additions. The patterns of fluctuations in these branches of building and their relative magnitude compared to housebuilding work is another topic of interest. The relationship of Scottish housebuilding fluctuations to those in other areas of Scottish, British and American investment is investigated in chapter four in an effort to place the Scottish study within the context of the debate conducted on the theme of alternating flows of home and foreign investment in the period 1870 to 1914. The hypo thesis of a systematic relationship in the ebb and flow of domestic and overseas investment with an important role ascribed to migration patterns is demonstrably questionable, both upon criteria developed in earlier critiques and also, in a Scottish dimension, upon statistical series at a national and local level. Emphasis is in fact at various stages placed upon the avoidance of mechanistic and monocausal explanations of house¬ building fluctuations at the cyclically variable intensity of individual and composite factors is stressed. This theme is often apparent but is exemplified in the discussion of specifically Scottish legal and institutional arrangements which induced a time path different to that of England, and contributed not only a formative influence on housebuilding fluctuations previously overlooked by other researchers in this field but also, as a by-product, provided some information relating to rural housebuilding and demolition in the section dealing with the implications of the Inhabited House Duty in Scotland. Two chapters, one concentrating on demand factors and the other on supply influences, form the explanatory basis of housebuilding fluctuations in the various burghs. Disaggregated into several population influences and in conjunction with the local employment situation the demand explanations in most Scottish burghs occupy a position of lesser importance when the variety of supply factors are related to housebuilding fluctuations. In terms of timing and magnitude the amalgam of building costs, uncertainty and expectations, the size of firms and the structure of the building industry, existing stocks and the availability of finance exert greater influence on the course of local housebuilding in at least two-thirds of the burgh. It is in the light of such findings that the concluding chapter attempts to relate the mechanics of housebuilding fluctuations to the wider forum of alternating factor flows, both human and capital, as represented in the idea of an 'Atlantic Economy'. Furthermore, the contribution of Scottish housebuilding to income, employment and investment in the Scottish economy during the period 1870 to 1914 is also demonstrated to be a considerable one, amplified by related forms of building work.
Ronzani, M (2019) Designing for complexity: Data visualizations in megaproject management, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.
Saoud, E A B (1996) Expert systems for management training in the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Sidwell, N C (1957) A critical examination of new constructional techniques and their influence on productivity in the building industry with special reference to housing in south-east Scotland, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Smith, S D (1994) Production estimation of earthmoving operations using a discrete-event simulation model, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Civil Engineering, University of Edinburgh.
Yang, S-A (1995) Kics: Representation of regulatory information and the use of case-based reasoning to support the relaxation process, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Edinburgh.