TY  - BOOK
AU  - LePatner,Barry B.
AU  - Jacobson,Timothy C.
AU  - Wright,Robert E.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Broken buildings, busted budgets: how to fix America's trillion-dollar construction industry 
AV  - HD9715.U52 L46 2007eb
U1  - 338.4/76900973 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Construction industry
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Management
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-215) and index; Introduction -- Overbudget and overdue -- The economic context of construction -- False starts and frustrated beginnings: a history of the industry -- Asymmetric information: the big barrier to change -- Minor blemishes: unions, workers, and government -- Fixing the construction industry: consolidation, intermediaries, and innovation -- Practical advice to owners for getting started now -- Notes; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/zegu/Doc?id=10265919
ER  -