Gerard Valence
University of Technology Sydney, Built Environment, Faculty Member
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- Gerard de Valence is a Senior Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Technology Sydney.... moreGerard de Valence is a Senior Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Technology Sydney. He also has a visiting appointment to The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management at University College London, where he spends a month or so each year. He is the founding Course Director of the Master of Real Estate Investment, and previously was Director of the Master of Property Development (2006-13), which he restructured and relaunched, and Director of the Master of Facilities Management (2003-05).
Prior to becoming an academic in 1992 he had ten years experience as an analyst and economist in the private sector doing research on the property, building and construction industries for the Australian Stock Exchange, the Property Council of Australia and the NSW Royal Commission into Productivity in the Building Industry.
He has a long-standing interest in industry performance and development, and worked on industry policy in the 1990s with both the Australian Construction Industry Development Agency and the NSW Department of Public Works and Services. For the Commonwealth Government he was a consultant for DIST, including the 1998 Building for Growth construction industry policy, and the 2002 Cole Royal Commission into the industry.
His research has broadly focused on issues around the structure, conduct and technological trajectory of the building and construction industry. He was co-editor with Rick Best of the three volume Building in Value series of books published between 1999 and 2003: Pre-design Issues; Design and Construction; and Workplace Strategies and Facilities Management. As Coordinator between 2003 and 2011 of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) Working Commission on Building Economics (W55) he was a leader of the largest research group in the field. In 2012 Taylor and Francis published a new book he edited called Modern Construction Economics: Theory and Application.edit
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Butterworth-Heinemann An imprint of Elsevier Science Limited Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803 First published 2003 Copyright © 2003, Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Chapter 13,... more
Butterworth-Heinemann An imprint of Elsevier Science Limited Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803 First published 2003 Copyright © 2003, Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved Chapter 13, Copyright © 2003, Kaye Remington Chapter ...
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Bon's book Building as an Economic Process: An Introduction to Building Economics was an important step in the development of the economic theory of the built environment. The book's aim was to establish... more
Bon's book Building as an Economic Process: An Introduction to Building Economics was an important step in the development of the economic theory of the built environment. The book's aim was to establish theoretical foundations for building economics, using the perspective of Austrian economics. The objective of this review is to assess the significance and impact of the book, and