Practitioners’ perception of value in construction

Value delivery is basically the main purpose of construction, and in fact it is not the physical construction in itself that a client buys but the attributes or value the building provides. This value delivery is undertaken in a complex endeavour of collaboration. Throughout a building project value is in focus both implicit and explicit. Often challenges or direct problems arise during the process, which may be due to an incongruent perception of value. A survey was conducted among practitioners of the Danish building industry, aiming at investigating whether or not practitioners perceive value differently. The survey revealed that the practitioners had a diverse understanding of how to perceive value in a building project. This is problematic for the efficiency and effectiveness of building projects. Value is the underlying concept of emerging methods and concepts such as Lean Construction, Value Management and Partnering. When a homogeneous understanding of value does not exist, the full potential of applying value based concepts will not occur

* Forskydninger i repræsentation: Unormaliserede kroppe og disidentifikationsstrategier på scenen

This article seeks to facilitate an understanding, of how representational strategies of bodies produced as abnormal can operate within performance contexts. Informed by José Esteban Muñoz’ theory on disidentification and Robert McRuers theory on compulsory able-bodiedness the paper examines how the play Anatomi uses and can be read through the concept of disidentificationas a mode of relocating the contingency of identification possibilities.The strategy of the play offers a critical awareness that enables the audience to see more subtle subversions in stereotyped representation and therefore ultimately creates a context for norm criticism