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Building companies feel they must sacrifice quality for profits, but it doesn’t have to be this way

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By Kerry Reals london, Barbara Bok, Zelinna Pablo
| The Conversation Verified
The Australian construction industry has long been facing a crisis of serious defects in apartment buildings. In the past, alarming incidents such as the Sydney Opal Tower evacuation and the Melbourne Lacrosse fire signalled systemic problems in construction. The same problem persists today. One shows serious defects in apartment buildings in New South Wales have more than doubled between 2021 and 2023.
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A Systematic Literature Review of Research on Social Procurement in the Construction and Infrastructure Sector: Barriers, Enablers, and Strategies

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By Catherine Xiaocui Lou, Riccardo C. Natoli, David Goodwin, Barbara Bok
| MDPI
1. Introduction Traditionally, across a range of industries, procurement activities have focused on balancing price and quality. Increasingly, with the assistance of government initiatives, there has been an observable shift in focus in many large-scale procurement programs, drawing upon the social benefit potential of procurement. Social procurement differs from traditional procurement.
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Benoît Godin and Dominique Vinck (eds) (2017) Critical Studies of Innovation: Alternative Approaches to the Pro-Innovation Bias. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 335 pages. ISBN: 978-1- 78536- 696- 3 | Science & Technology Studies

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By Barbara Bok
| Science & Technology Studies Verified
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