Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 1
February 1, 2000
Principal Fields of Interest
Corporate real estate management (building economics): Economic aspects of the building process from conception to demolition, with special emphasis on development, construction, utilization, and management of real property portfolios held by multinational organizations
Construction economics: The rôle of the construction sector in economic growth and development, with special emphasis on international and intertemporal comparisons of construction technology and overall sectoral interdependence in conditions of increasing globalization of the construction market
Address
Reading Home: 11 Abbots Walk, Flat 2, Reading RG1 3HW, UK, Phone: +44 (0) 118 9504490
London Home: 1 Artesian Road, Flat 40, London W2 5DA, UK, Phone & Fax: +44 (0) 171 2295049, E- mail: [email protected]
Office: Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 219, Reading RG6 6AW, UK, Phone: +44 (0) 118 931 8201, Fax: +44 (0) 118 931 3856, E-mail: [email protected], Website: http://www.construct.reading.ac.uk
Education
Ph.D. Degree in Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, September 1972 - June 1975
Ph.D. Dissertation: "Some Conditions of Macroeconomic Stability in Multiregional Input-Output Models" (Supervisor: Professor Karen Polenske)
Master's Degree in City Planning, Department of City and Regional Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, September 1970 - November 1972
Master's Thesis: "An Introduction to Morphometric Analysis of Spatial Systems on Micro- Environmental Scale" (Supervisor: Professor Michael Woldenberg)
Diplomate Engineer in Architecture, Department of Architecture, Belgrade University, September 1964 - June 1969
Undergraduate Thesis: "Human Habitat Under the Sea" (Supervisor: Professor Oliver Minic)
Employment
Professor of Construction Management and Economics, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, Faculty of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Reading, June 1995 - present
Head of Department, October 1996 - January 1999
Visiting Professor, Department of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong, October - December 1993
Bovis Professor of Construction Management and Economics, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, Faculty of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Reading, July 1990 - June 1995 Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 2
Associate Professor of Building Economics and Technology, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, July 1987 - June 1990
Assistant Professor of Economics in Architecture, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, July 1983 - June 1987
George Macomber Career Development Professor in Construction Management, July 1985 - June 1988
Lecturer of Economics in Architecture, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, January - June 1983
Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, September 1980 - June 1983
Lecturer of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts in Boston, September 1979 - July 1980
Lecturer of Urban Studies and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, September 1979 - January 1980
Scientific Counsellor, Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, September 1975 - August 1979
The position of scientific counsellor is the highest research position available in a Yugoslav research institution
Research Experience
Department of Construction Management & Engineering, Faculty of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Reading
Center for Strategic Studies in Construction (CSSC)
Comparative Analysis of Construction Costs in the UK and US, Pre-Study Consulting Services, National Audit Office (NAO), May 1993 - October 1994
Founder and Head, Corporate Real Estate Management Research Unit (CREMRU), January 1991 - present
CREMRU was established with the objective of providing a firm and lasting foundation for the study of real estate management in private and public organizations that are not primarily in the real estate business. As defined by CREMRU, corporate real estate management covers the entire range of activities concerning portfolios of buildings and land holdings held by an organization: investment planning and management, financial planning and management, construction planning and management, and facilities planning and management
Annual International Survey of Corporate Real Estate Practices, CREMRU-Johnson Controls, Summer 1997 - present
The collaborative survey with Johnson Controls, initiated in 1997, continues the surveying activity inaugurated in 1993 Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 3
Annual Survey of Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe, North America, and Asia, June 1993 - March 1997 (unsponsored research project)
The survey concerns similarities and differences between corporate real estate management practices in three major international business environments
Analysis of the Nat West Bank Group Property Facilities' Customer Satisfaction Program, December 1995 - April 1996
Property Performance Measurement Study, DEGW Workplace Forum (Co-Principal Investigator, with Jay McMahan), October 1993 - December 1994
Survey of Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in the Top 100 EC Firms, Summer 1991 (unsponsored research project)
The survey concerned the relationship between the chairman and the chief real estate officer, that is, similarities and differences in their perceptions of the rôle of real estate in their firms
Founder and Head, European Construction Economics Research Unit (ECERU), September 1990 - present
ECERU was established with the objective of providing a firm and lasting foundation for the comparative economic analysis of construction activity world-wide, with a special emphasis on Europe
Annual Survey of International Construction, Summer 1992 - present (unsponsored research project)
The survey concerns three areas—changes in the rôle of the construction sector in the national economy, changes in key construction markets over the next 25 years, and changes in international trade in construction materials and services over the next 25 years
Input-Output Analysis of the Turkish Construction Industry, the British Council Link project with the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, with Talat Birgönül (Co- Principal Investigator), April 1998 - March 1999
Istituto Cooperativo per l'Innovazione Edilizia (ICIE), Rome, Italy, grant from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Modello di supporto alle decisioni per la manutenzione nell'edilizia terziaria (Co-Principal Investigator), with Roberto Pietroforte (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts), July 1990 - June 1993
Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT
Facilities Impact on Command Priorities, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, USA Corps of Engineers (Principal Investigator), with Michael Joroff, July 1988 - June 1990
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Decision-Support Tools for Real Property Portfolio Management, Corporate Property Management, Digital Equipment Corporation (Principal Investigator), with Michael Joroff, March 1988 - June 1990
Building Portfolio Management: New Approaches to Real Property Asset Management, Shimizu Construction Company (Co-Principal Investigator, with Michael Joroff), September 1986 - July 1988
Real Property Strategic Assessment, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, USA Corps of Engineers (Principal Investigator), with Michael Joroff and Eric Dluhosch, January - May 1986
Structural and Organizational Changes in the Housebuilding Industry in the United States and Japan, Grunsfeld Scholarship Fund (Principal Investigator), with Kazunobu Minami, September 1985 - May 1986
Expert System Development for Cafeteria Design, Real Estate and Construction Division, IBM, with Patrick Purcell and Robert Logcher (Co-Principal Investigators), February - June 1986
Comprehensive Office Building Evaluation Program, Real Estate and Construction Division, IBM, with Michael Joroff (Principal Investigator), Eric Dluhosch, and John Zeisel, September 1984 - March 1986
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Boston University, grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Pneumatic Structures for Lunar and Martian Habitats, with Raymond Nagem and Guido Sandri (Principal Investigators), and Mary-Kate Weaver, September 1989 - September 1990
Architectural Research Centers Consortium, grant from the National Science Foundation
An Economic Framework of Total Functional Value for Buildings, with Robertson Ward (Principal Investigator), Francis Ventre, and Francis Duffy, April 1989 - March 1991
Arthur D. Little Foundation
Building Expert Systems and Building Economics (Principal Investigator), January - May 1985
Office of Facilities Management, Division of Capital Planning and Operations, Executive Office of Administration and Finance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Program to Establish Cost-Effective and Efficient Procedures and Practices for Common Building Defects Detection, Diagnosis, and Scheduled Repair (Co-Principal Investigator), with Eric Dluhosch, September 1983 - April 1984
Department of Economics, Northeastern University
The Structure of Users' Data Processing Costs: The Implications of the Decreasing Ratio Between Hardware and Software Costs (Construction Industry Cases), Research and Scholarship Development Fund (Principal Investigator), January - December 1982
Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia
Spatial Planning Methodology (Co-Principal Investigator), with Joze Dekleva, January - August 1979
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Systems Approach to Spatial Planning (Principal Investigator), January 1976 - December 1978
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Multiregional Input-Output Analysis of the US Economy, Research Assistant to Karen Polenske, September 1973 - August 1975
Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Hierarchical Spatial Systems, Research Assistant to Michael Woldenberg, February - June 1971
Teaching Experience
Department of Construction Management & Engineering, Faculty of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Reading (1990 - present)
Undergraduate Program, International Construction Option, with Roger Flanagan, principal instructor (1992 - present) Undergraduate Program, Facilities Management Option, occasional lectures (1991 - present) Master of Science in Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Management, with Virginia Gibson, Department of Land Management and Development (1998 - present) Master of Science Course in Project Management (by Part-Time Study), occasional lectures (1990 - present) Master of Science Course in Construction Management, occasional lectures (1991 - present)
Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT (1983-90)
Building Economics (1983-89) Building Economics: Project Life Cycle Analysis (1983-87) Building Economics: Interindustry Analysis (1984-87) Space Habitat Design Workshop, Coordinator (1986-89)
The workshop traced the development of human settlements in the inner solar system: low-Earth orbit space station (1986), lunar base (1987), Mars colony (1988), and asteroid belt colony (1989)
Special Topics in Building Economics (1988-89) Introduction to Building Economics (Undergraduate) (1989-90) Architecture Internship Program, Department Coordinator, Independent Activities Period, January 1984, 1985, and 1986
Department of Economics, Northeastern University (1980-83)
Economic Policy and Planning I and II (1981-83) Development Planning Seminar (1982-83) Mathematics for Economists (1981-83) Economic Programming (1983) Introduction to Statistics (1981-82) Introduction to Mathematical Economics (Undergraduate) (1981-82) Statistics I (Undergraduate) (1980) Comparative Economic Systems (Undergraduate) (1981) Principles of Economics (Undergraduate) (1980-82)
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT (1973-75, 1979-84)
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Planning in Socialist Countries, with Tunney Lee and Karen Polenske (1974-75 and 1979-84) An Introduction to Architectonics, Independent Activities Period, January 1973
Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts in Boston (1980)
Statistical Methods (Undergraduate) (1980) Introduction to Macroeconomics (Undergraduate) (1980)
Department of Sociology, Ljubljana University (1976)
An Introduction to Cybernetics (1976)
Boston Architectural Center (1972-73)
An Introduction to Architectonics (1972-73)
Professional Experience
Chartered Institute of Building
Review of Sir Michael Latham's Report, "Constructing the Team" (London: HMSO, July 1994), August - September 1994
DEGW International Limited, London
Property Performance Measurement Study, Workplace Forum, with Jay McMahan, October 1993 - April 1995
This two-year study includes six major British organizations, members of the Workplace Forum—British Airways, British Gas, British Telecom, Lloyds Bank, Midland Bank, and National Westminster Bank
Bovis Construction Group, London
Member of the Editorial Board, Bovis World, February 1992 - June 1995
Bovis World, ex-Bovis Post, is an internal newspaper published quarterly with a circulation of more than 7,000 copies
Retained Consulting Services, October 1990 - June 1995
Bovis Construction Group is one of the largest construction management firms in the world with turnover in the order of £5 billion (since 1984 Bovis Construction Group is part of P&O Group—the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company)
EKA Corporation and HAKA Corporation, Helsinki, Finland
Real Property Portfolio Management: The Executive's Perspective, Consulting Services, January 1990
EKA Corporation is a conglomerate that ranks 3rd in Finland and 15th in Scandinavia in terms of size; HAKA Corporation is EKA's subsidiary engaged in construction and real estate activities Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 7
International Masonry Institute, Washington, D.C.
Building Materials Substitution Trends in the US Construction Sector, Consulting Services, with Roberto Pietroforte, November 1989 - June 1990
Office of Project Management, Division of Capital Planning and Operations, Executive Office of Administration and Finance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Evaluation of the Designers' Incentive Bonus Program, Consulting Services, April 1989 - June 1990
Real Estate and Construction Division, IBM
Corporate Facilities Practice on Roofing, Consulting Services, with Eric Dluhosch, January 1985 - June 1985
Corporate facilities practice documents on a wide variety of building components, systems, and materials were prepared with the objective of instructing and guiding both external and internal members of professional teams working on IBM building projects
Office of Facilities Management, Division of Capital Planning and Operations, Executive Office of Administration and Finance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Preventive Maintenance Pilot Project, Consulting Services, with Eric Dluhosch, August 1984 - January 1988
Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Spatial Plan of Celje County, Project Co-Director, with Joze Dekleva, November 1977 - August 1979
Inter-County Plan for Dolenjska Region, Project Coordination Team Member, September 1975 - December 1976
Awards
Outstanding Paper, 1995 Award for Excellence, Facilities, MCB University Press, December 1995
"Property Performance Measurement: From Theory to Management Practice," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 12, No. 12, November 1994, pp. 18-24 (principal author, with Jay McMahan and Paul Carder); the paper was reprinted together with outstanding papers for other years in Facilities, Vol 16, Nos. 7-8, July-August 1998, pp. 208-214
Research Grant, Arthur D. Little Foundation, MIT (Institute-wide competition for junior faculty), January 1985
Research Grant, Research and Scholarship Development Fund, Northeastern University (University-wide competition for junior faculty), January 1982
Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant, August 1970
Best Student in Graduating Class, Department of Architecture, Belgrade University, June 1969
Related Activities Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 8
Coordinator of the CIB Working Commission W55, "Building Economics," October 1999 - present
Co-Coordinator of the CIB Working Commission W82, "Futures Studies in Construction" (with Luc Bourdeau, CSTB, France), May 1996 – October 1999
Conference Chairman, 39th Euroconstruct Conference, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, London, June 30, 1995
External Examiner, Bachelor of Science Degree in Building Management, School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, School Year 1994/95
Member of the Scientific Council, Performance (Edilstampa, Rome), July 1994 - present
Performance is dedicated to construction management issues at the project, firm, and industry levels
External Examiner, Master of Science Course in Construction Economics and Management, the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, School Years 1993/94 - 1995/96
Co-founder, together with Professor Peter Lansley and Dr. Will Hughes, Reading Seminar in Construction Management, Economics, and Law, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading, January 1994 - present
The aim of the seminar is to create an environment in which the interfaces between the three disciplines of management, economics, and law can be examined, with the objective of forming a common intellectual foundation (replaces the Reading Construction Economics Seminar, coordinated by myself, and the Reading Construction Organization Forum, coordinated by Dr. Will Hughes)
Member of the International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives (NACORE International), European Chapter, July 1993 - June 1994
External Examiner, Bachelor of Science Degree in Quantity Surveying (Full Time), Department of Building and Surveying, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School Years 1992/93 - 1995/96
Faculty member, the Workplace Forum, DEGW, London (Forum Director: Dr. Francis Duffy), April 1991 – July 1997
DEGW is one of the leading firms integrating various aspects of facilities planning, design, and management
Joint Editor, with Will Hughes, Construction Management and Economics (London: Spon), February 1991 - present
Construction Management and Economics, edited by John Bennett from its inception in 1983 till 1991, is the leading refereed journal in the field
Member of the Advisory Board, Building Research and Information (London: Spon), January 1991 - December 1995
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At the time, the editor of Building Research and Information, formerly Building Research and Practice (the organ of CIB), was Anthony Kirk
Founder and Secretary, Reading Construction Economics Seminar, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading, September 1990 - 1993
The seminar was established with the objective of providing a congenial forum for the key researchers in construction economics to discuss their work in progress--current work and future plans
External Examiner, Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in Quantity Surveying and Bachelor of Science Degree with Honors in Building Surveying, Department of Surveying, University of Salford, School Years 1990/91 - 1992/93
Member of the International Input-Output Association, October 1989 - September 1991
Member of the Committee on Design to Budget for Federal Facilities, Building Research Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council, May - December 1989
The results of the committee's work have appeared in Achieving Designs to Budget for Federal Facilities, Building Research Board, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1990
Member of the International Society of Facilities Executives, April 1989 - June 1990
Member of the Regional Science Association, November 1986 - October 1989
Member of Building Economics Working Commission (W55) of the International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation (CIB), July 1984 - present
Founding Member of the Panel for Research on Building Economics and Industry Studies, Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), April 1984 - June 1990
Member of the American Economic Association, May 1980 - June 1990
Chairman of the Committee for Development of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Land Surveying, Ljubljana University, October 1978 - August 1979
Member of the Delegation of the Association of Yugoslav Cities to France, Great Britain, Sweden, and West Germany, Urban Management Project - OECD, November 1977
Member of the Task Force for Drafting of the Proposal of the Social Planning Act of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, January 1977 - January 1978
Member of the Executive Council of the Slovene Urban Planning Association, February 1976 - February 1977
Founding member of the Philomorphs, Harvard University, October 1971 - June 1975 and May 1980 - June 1990
Selected Publications
Book Series
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Editor-in-Chief, Foundations of Building Economics Series, sponsored by the Building Economics Working Commission (W55) of the International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation (CIB), forthcoming
The book series, accepted by E. & F.N. Spon (London) in September 1993, will include the following edited volumes:
Martin Skitmore & Vernon Marston, Cost Modelling (1999) John Raftery & Patricia Hillebrandt, Construction Economics (2000) Roger Flanagan, Project Evaluation (2000)
Books
The Future of International Construction, London: Thomas Telford, 2000, ISBN 0-7277-2749-4, forthcoming (with David Crosthwaite)
Economic Structure and Maturity: Collected Papers in Input-Output Modelling and Applications, Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2000, ISBN 1-84014-543-9
Collection of previously published and unpublished papers in input-output analysis and construction economics
Building as an Economic Process: An Introduction to Building Economics, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1989, ISBN 0-13-086166-9
Chapters in Books
"Whither Global Construction? Some Results of the ECERU Opinion Survey, 1992-95," in M. Katavic, ed., Economic Management of Innovation, Productivity, and Quality in Construction, Vol. 2, Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium of CIB Working Commission W55, "Building Economics," University of Zagreb, Zagreb, September 4-7, 1996, Zagreb: University of Zagreb, 1996, pp. 457-467, ISBN 953-96245-2-5
Keynote address at the above symposium
"Whither Global Construction? ECERU Opinion Survey, 1992-94," in D. Picken and J. Raftery, eds., International Building Economics, Proceedings of the 21st Annual Meeting of CIB Commission W55, "Building Economics," Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, September 6-9, 1994, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 1995, pp. 145-195, ISBN 962-367-199-7
Keynote address at the above meeting
"International Construction Trends," Building IT 2005, London: Construction IT Forum, November 1995
Simultaneously published as a report and a CD-ROM with hypertext-based multimedia allowing a combination of text, data, images, and video
"Unternehmens- und Immobilienstrategien" ("Corporate Real Estate Management: Matching Business and Property Strategies"), in H. Harden and H. Kahlen, eds., Planen, Bauen, Nutzen und Instandhalten von Bauten, Stuttgart, Berlin & Köln: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1993, pp. 189-196 (in German), ISBN 3-17-010763-1
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"Real Property Portfolio Management or What the Client of Building Services Needs to Do to Ensure Satisfactory Building Performance." in A. Bezelga and P. Brandon, eds., Management, Quality, and Economics in Building, London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1991, pp. 1001-1010, ISBN 0- 419-17470-2
Keynote address presented at the European Symposium on Management, Quality, and Economics in Housing and Other Building Sectors, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, September 30 - October 4, 1991
"Real Property Portfolio Management," in K. Cyros and M. Joroff, eds., Facilities Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Japan Facilities Management Association Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990
"Qualitative Input-Output Analysis," in R.E. Miller, K.R. Polenske, and A. Rose, eds., Frontiers of Input-Output Analysis, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 222-231, ISBN 0-19-505758-9
Paper presented at the Thirty-Third North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association, Session 14: "I-O After Fifty Years--Theory Session Honoring Wassily Leontief," Columbus, Ohio, November 14-16, 1986
"Expert Systems, Qualitative Reasoning, and Naive Building Economics," in P.S. Brandon, ed., Building Cost Modeling and Computers, London: Spon, 1987, pp. 419-428, ISBN 0-419-14040-9
Keynote address presented at the Building Cost Modeling and Computers Conference, University of Salford, January 8-10, 1987, Salford, England
"Some Thoughts on 'Discursive Planning' and Cybernetics in a Yugoslav Planning Institute," in R. Trappl et al., eds., Progress in Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vol. V, Washington, D.C.: Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1978, pp. 367-376
Paper presented at the Third European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Symposium on Systems Approach in Urban and Regional Planning, Austrian Society for Cybernetics, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria, April 20-23, 1976
Papers in Refereed Journals
“Regional Development and Construction in Italy: An Input-Output Analysis, 1959-1992,” Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 18, No. 2, 2000, pp. 151-159 (with Roberto Pietroforte, principal author, and Tullio Gregori), ISSN 0144-6193
“An Input-Output Analysis of the Turkish Construction Sector: A Note,” Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 17, No. 5, September 1999, pp. 543-551 (with Talat Birgönül and Irem Ozdogan), ISSN 0144-6193
“Outsourcing of Property-Related Management Functions in Europe and North America, 1993- 1998: A Note,” Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 17, No. 4, July 1999, pp. 409-412 (with Rachael Luck), ISSN 0144-6193
"Annual CREMRU-JCI Survey of Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe and North America: 1993-1998," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 17, Nos. 5-6, pp. 167-176, March-April 1999 (with Rachael Luck), ISSN 0263-2772
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"The Italian Residential Construction Sector: An Input-Output Historical Analysis," Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 17, No. 3, 1999, pp. 297-303 (with Roberto Pietroforte, principal author), ISSN 0144-6193
"Annual CREMRU-JCI Survey of Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe and North America: 1993-1997," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 16, Nos. 3-4, March-April 1998, pp. 82-92 (with Rachael Luck), ISSN 0263-2772
"The Future of International Construction: Some Results of ECERU Opinion Surveys, 1993-96," Building Research and Information (Spon, London), Vol. 25, No. 3, May-June 1997, pp. 137-141, ISSN 0961-3218
This journal has become refereed in 1996
"Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe and North America: 1993-1996," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 15, Nos. 5-6, May-June 1997, pp. 118-124, ISSN 0263-2772
This journal has introduced a refereed section in 1996
"Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models: The Cases of Italy, Japan, UK, and USA," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali, Vol. 43, No. 3, 1996, pp. 669-679 (with Roberto Pietroforte)
"Some New Evidence of Old Trends: Japanese Construction 1960-90," Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 14, No. 4, July 1996, pp. 319-323 (with Tomonari Yashiro), ISSN 0144-6193
"Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models: The Case of Japan, 1960-90," Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 3, 1996, pp. 349-354 (with Tomonari Yashiro)
"An Input-Output Analysis of the Italian Construction Sector, 1959-1988," Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 13, No. 3, 1995, pp. 253-262 (with Roberto Pietroforte, principal author), ISSN 0144-6193
"New Construction versus Maintenance and Repair Construction Technology in the US since World War II," Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 11, No. 2, 1993, pp. 151-162 (with Roberto Pietroforte)
"Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models in the UK," Applied Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 25, No. 1, 1993, pp. 75-79 (with Xu Bing), ISSN 0003-6846
"Historical Comparison of Construction Sectors in the United States, Japan, Italy, and Finland Using Input-Output Tables," Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 8, No. 3, 1990, pp. 233-247 (with Roberto Pietroforte), ISSN 0144-6193
Paper presented at the Construction and Infrastructure Economics Session (Chair), 18th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Regional Science Association, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, May 12-14, 1989
"Replacement Simulation Model (RSM): A Framework for Building Portfolio Decisions," Construction Management and Economics (Spon, London), Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 1988, pp. 149- 159, ISSN 0144-6193 Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 13
"Supply-Side Multiregional Input-Output Models," Journal of Regional Science (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Vol. 28, No. 1, 1988, pp. 41-50
"Secrecy and Publicity in the Marshallian Planned Economy," Economic Analysis (Institute of Economic Studies, Belgrade), Vol. 20, No. 4, 1986, pp. 357-374 (in English), ISSN 0351-286 X
Also published in Shri Bhagwan Dahiya, ed., Theoretical Foundations of Development Planning, Vol. 2, Development Policy and the Planning Process, Part B, New Delhi: Vedams Books International, 1991 (5 volumes)
"Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models," International Journal of Forecasting (North-Holland, Amsterdam), Vol. 2, No. 2, 1986, pp. 231- 235, ISSN 0169-2070
"Comparative Stability Analysis of Multiregional Input-Output Models: Column, Row, and Leontief-Strout Gravity Coefficient Models," Quarterly Journal of Economics (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts), Vol. 99, No. 4, November 1984, pp. 791-815, ISSN 0033- 5533
"Allometry in Topologic Structure of Transportation Networks," Quality and Quantity (Elsevier, Amsterdam), Vol. 13, 1979, pp. 307-326
Paper presented at the International Workshop on Comparative Ecological Analysis of Social Change, Faculty of Sociology, Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, August 1-12, 1976
"Accessibility in Transportation Networks: Probabilistic versus Deterministic Approach," European Journal of Operational Research (North-Holland, Amsterdam), Vol. 1, No. 2, 1977, pp. 85-89
"Some Conditions of Macroeconomic Stability of Multiregional Input-Output Models," Economic Analysis (Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade), Vol. 16, Nos. 1-2, 1977, pp. 65-87 (Ph.D. Dissertation, in English), ISSN 0351-286 X
Also published by the US Department of Transportation, Report DOT-TST-76-61, September 1975
Other Journal Papers
“Introduction to the Foundations of Building Economics Series,” CIB Bulletin, No. 3, 1999, pp. 29-30
"Whither Global Construction? Some Results of the ECERU Opinion Survey, 1993-95," Building Research and Information (Spon, London), Vol. 24, No. 2, 1996, pp. 81-85, ISSN 0961-3218
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"Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe and the United States: 1993 and 1994 Surveys," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 13, No. 7, June 1995, pp. 10-16, ISSN 0263-2772
"Property Performance Measurement: From Theory to Management Practice," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 12, No. 12, November 1994, pp. 18-24, ISSN 0263-2772 (principal author, with Jay McMahan and Paul Carder)
Awarded by MCB University Press in December 1995 as the journal's Best Paper of 1994; the paper was reprinted together with outstanding papers for other years in Facilities, Vol 16, Nos. 7-8, July-August 1998, pp. 208-214
"Whither Global Construction? The 1992 and 1993 ECERU Opinion Surveys: Parts One & Two," Building Research and Information (Spon, London), Vol. 22, No. 2, March-April 1994, pp. 109- 126, ISSN 0961-3218
"Ten Principles of Corporate Real Estate Management," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 12, No. 5, May 1994, pp. 9-10, ISSN 0263-2772
"Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe and the United States," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 12, No. 3, March 1994, pp. 17-20, ISSN 0263-2772
"Evaluation of Construction Costs and Quality in the United Kingdom," pp. 75-77 in Valutazioni dei costi e della qualità nei processi di intervento edilizio (Evaluation of Construction Costs and Quality), Quaderno No. 3, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dei Sistemi Edilizi e Territoriali del Politecnico di Milano, 1993 (in English)
Proceedings of the international conference held on May 24, 1993, at the Politecnico di Milano, Milano
"1992 ECERU International Opinion Survey," Note on Building Economics, Building Research and Information (Spon, London), Vol. 21, No. 2, March-April 1993, pp. 74-75, ISSN 0961-3218
"Corporate Real Estate Management," Facilities (MCB University Press, London), Vol. 10, No. 12, December 1992, pp. 13-17, ISSN 0263-2772
"Facing Up to the Future" Bovis World (London), July-August 1992, p. 12
The article is followed by the ECERU survey form on the international construction market for the Bovis employees to fill out and return to the editor of Bovis World
"The Future of International Construction: Secular Patterns of Growth and Decline," Habitat International (Pergamon, Oxford), Vol. 16, No. 3, 1992, pp. 119-128, ISSN 0197-3975
Also in the Proceedings of EKROSTA '92, International Conference on Economic Aspects of the Development of Construction Industry in Central and Eastern Europe, Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia, June 9-12, 1992 (keynote address)
"What Do We Mean by Building Technology?" Habitat International (Pergamon, Oxford), Vol. 15, Nos. 1-2, 1991, pp. 3-26, ISSN 0197-3975
Inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Reading on February 18, 1991 (the original was published by Bovis Construction Limited, Harrow, Middlesex)
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"Pneumatic Structures for Lunar and Martian Habitats," Building Research and Information (Spon, London), Vol. 19, No. 1, 1991, pp. 43-49 (with Raymond Nagem, principal author, Guido Sandri, and Mary-Kate Weaver), ISSN 0961-3218
"Comparative Historical Analysis of Construction Sectors in Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States Using Input-Output Data and Methods," Proceedings of the Fourth Yugoslav Symposium on Organization and Management in Construction, April 24-26, 1991, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, pp. 425-435 (keynote address)
"Space Architecture: An Educational Experiment at MIT," Cultures and Technologies, Proceedings of Architecture 1990 and XVII UIA Congress, Montréal, May 27 - June 1, 1990, pp. 561-570
"An Essay on Building in Space," Building Research & Practice (Spon, London, for CIB), Vol. 17, No. 1, January-February 1989, pp. 30-40
"Direct and Indirect Resource Utilization by the Construction Sector: The Case of the United States since World War II," Habitat International (Pergamon, Oxford and New York), Vol. 12, No. 1, 1988, pp. 49-74, ISSN 0197-3975
Also in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Building Economics (CIB), September 14-17, 1987, Copenhagen, Keynote Volume, pp. 72-110 (keynote address)
"Methods of Real Property Portfolio Management," Architecture and Technology (Delphi Research, Inc., Tokyo), No. 7, 1987, pp. 68-77 (in Japanese)
The bulk of this issue of Architecture and Technology featured presentations from the International Office Environment Conference, Tokyo and Gotemba, Japan, June 16-19, 1987
"Timing of Space: Some Thoughts on Building Economics," Habitat International (Pergamon, Oxford and New York), Vol. 10, No. 4, 1986, pp. 101-107, ISSN 0197-3975
Also in the Proceedings of the Building Economics Workshop, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, "Building Economics Research Agenda," D.L. Hawk, ed., New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, May 23-26, 1985, pp. 211-217
"The Rôle of Construction in the National Economy: A Comparison of the Fundamental Structure of the U.S. and Japanese Input-Output Tables Since World War II," Habitat International (Pergamon, Oxford and New York), Vol. 10, No. 4, 1986, pp. 93-99 (with Kazunobu Minami), ISSN 0197-3975
Also in the Proceedings of the Tenth CIB Congress, Advancing Building Technology, Vol. 8, Washington, D.C., September 22-26, 1986, pp. 3434-3443
"On the Economics of Design," Habitat International (Pergamon, Oxford and New York), Vol. 10, No. 4, 1986, pp. 109-113, ISSN 0197-3975
Paper presented at the Design Research Seminar, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, May 31-June 1, 1985
"The Naive Building Economics Manifesto: Commonsense in Expert Systems," Building Research & Practice (Spon, London, for CIB), Vol. 14, No. 6, November-December 1986, pp. 348-351
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Also in the Proceedings of the Tenth CIB Congress, Advancing Building Technology, Vol. 9, Washington, D.C., September 22-26, 1986, pp. 3803-3812
"Choices, Values, and Time: The Psychology of Cost-Benefit Analysis," Building Research & Practice (Spon, London, for CIB), Vol. 14, No. 4, July-August 1986, pp. 223-225
Paper presented at the Thirteenth Meeting of CIB Working Commission W55 "Building Economics," Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 3-6, 1985
"Epiteszet es ido: Gondolatok az epitesgazdasag-tanrol" ("Architecture of Time: Some Thoughts on Building Economics"), EGSZI Gyorsjelentes (Institute for Building Economy and Organization, Budapest), No. 27, September 1984, pp. 8-13 (in Hungarian, translated by K. Szöke)
"More Notes from a Planning Office," Telos (Sociology Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri), No. 42, Winter 1979-80, pp. 163-167, ISSN 0090-6514
"Notes from a Planning Office," Telos (Sociology Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri), No. 37, Fall 1978, pp. 167-180 (under pseudonym Hop Jan), ISSN 0090-6514
"Notes on Socialist Planning and Its Discontents," Telos (Sociology Department, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri), No. 33, Fall 1977, pp. 123-132 (under pseudonym Hop Jan), ISSN 0090-6514
"Allometry in Topologic Structure of Architectural Spatial Systems," Ekistics (Athens), Vol. 36, No. 215, 1973, pp. 270-276
The bulk of this issue of Ekistics featured papers by members of the Philomorphs, edited by Geoffrey Dutton
"Allometry in Micro-Environmental Morphology," Harvard Papers in Theoretical Geography (Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts), Special Paper E, June 1972
Paper presented to the Philomorphs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 24, 1971
"Experimental Habitat Under the Sea," Arhitektura-Urbanizam (Belgrade), Vol. 60, 1971, pp. 43- 48 (abridged Undergraduate Thesis, in Serbo-Croatian)
"Man in the Sea," Sinteza (Ljubljana), Vol. 14, 1969, pp. 68-69 (in Slovene)
Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings
"Globalization of Construction Activity and Changing Construction Technology," in The Way Forward for the Danish Building Industry, Copenhagen: Danish Building Research Institute, SBI Report 219, 1992, pp. 93-103 (in Danish and English), ISBN 87-563-0808-6, ISSN 0573-9985
Keynote address presented at the 100th Anniversary of the Danish Society of Chemical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineers, Copenhagen, June 1, 1992
"Real Property Portfolio Management: Economy, Quality, and Time," in Proceedings of the Eleventh CIB Congress, Quality for Building Users Throughout the World, Paris, June 19-23, 1989, Theme III, Constructing Quality, Vol. II, pp. 211-221, ISBN 2-86891-163-3
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"Systems Approach to Spatial Planning: A Yugoslav Experience," in R.F. Ericson, ed., Improving the Human Condition: Quality and Stability of Social Systems, Proceedings of the Silver Anniversary International Meeting of the Society for General Systems Research, London, August 20-24, 1979, pp. 689-699
Other Papers in Conference Proceedings
“Corporate Real Estate Knowledge in the Nineties and Beyond: Some Results of the CREMRU- JCI Annual Survey, 1993-1998,” Proceedings of the Futures in Property and Facility Management Conference, University College London, London, June 24-25, 1999, pp. 187-192, ISBN 0- 9536142-0-4
“Distance is Dead, Long Live Distance: Some Thoughts on the Global Market for Distance Learning in Construction Management and Engineering,” Proceedings of the Second A.J. Etkin International Seminar on Education in Construction Management, Technion, Haifa, Israel, May 4- 6, 1998, pp. 73-100, ISBN 965-90209-0-2
"Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models: Toward an Index of Economic 'Maturity'," Proceedings of the 44th North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Buffalo, New York, November 6-9, 1997
"Why are There Construction Firms and Why is There Subcontracting in Construction? Some Lessons for Soviet-Type Economies in Transition," Proceedings of the Anglo-Soviet Symposium on the Management of the Construction Firm in the Market Economy, Moscow, September 17-18, 1991
"The Future of International Construction: Discussion Paper," Proceedings of the Meeting of the CIB Working Commission W55, "Building Economics," Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, May 29 - June 1, 1991
"The World Building Market, 1970-1985," Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Building Economics and Construction Management (CIB), March 12-21, 1990, Sydney, Vol. 1, pp. 16-47 (keynote address)
Book Reviews
Review of Branko Horvat's The Yugoslav Economic System: The First Labor-Managed Economy in the Making, White Plains, New York: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1976, in Annals of Regional Science (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Vol. 12, No. 3, 1978, pp. 131-133
Bibliographies
Building Economics: Bibliography, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading, Reading
The bibliography is printed at least once per year from 1987 till 1995 and distributed to colleagues, students, and professionals in the field
Video Tapes
"Building as an Economic Process," Facilities Management Video Tape Library, produced for the International Society of Facilities Executives by the Office of Facilities Management Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990 Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 18
Keynote address recorded at Facilities Management '89: Preparing for the Global Decade, Office of Facilities Management Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1-3, 1989
Cartoons
"Conversations," International Synergy Journal, No. 10, 1991, p. 81
Selected Research Reports
Whither Global Construction? ECERU Surveys, European Construction Economics Research Unit, Department of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, 1992-1997
Since the inauguration of the survey in the Summer of 1992, the summary reports are appearing on an annual basis
The Momentum of Success: A Study of Construction in the Bangkok Boom, Mattapoisett, Massachusetts: The Center for the Study of Success, The Purrington Foundation, 1994 (with K. Lusk Brooke, Principal Investigator, F.P. Davidson, P. Genta, J. Hines, G.H. Litwin, E.J. Lusk, and K. Saeed)
Whither Global Construction? 1992 - 1994 ECERU Surveys, European Construction Economics Research Unit, Department of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, October 1994
Whither Global Construction? 1992 and 1993 ECERU Surveys, European Construction Economics Research Unit, Department of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, October 1993
Real Property Portfolio Management Research Program, prepared for the Institute of Technology, Shimizu Construction Company, by the Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, MIT, July 1988 (with Michael Joroff, Co-Principal Investigator)
Evaluation of the Preventive Maintenance Pilot Project and Considerations for the Development of a State Wide Preventive Maintenance Program, Final Report, submitted to the Office of Facilities Management, Division of Capital Planning and Operations, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, November 1987 (with Eric Dluhosch, Co-Principal Investigator, and Peter Veale)
Real Property Portfolio Management, prepared for the Laboratory of Architecture and Planning Symposium on Real Property Portfolio Management, January 1987, MIT, sponsored by Shimizu Construction Company (with Michael Joroff and Peter Veale)
Cafeteria Planning and Design Expert System, prepared for the Real Estate and Construction Division, IBM, June 1986 (with Patrick Purcell and Robert Logcher, Co-Principal Investigators)
Structural and Organizational Changes in the Housebuilding Industry in the United States and Japan, prepared for the Grunsfeld Research Incentive Fund, Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, MIT, May 1986 (Principal Investigator, with Kazunobu Minami)
Strategic Real Property Assessment, prepared for the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, U.S.A. Corps of Engineers, by the Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, MIT, May 1986 (Principal Investigator, with Michael Joroff and Eric Dluhosch)
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Comprehensive Office Building Evaluation, prepared for the Real Estate and Construction Division, IBM, by the Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, MIT, and Building Diagnostics, Inc., July 1985 (with Michael Joroff, Principal Investigator, and John Zeisel)
Feasibility Studies for the Renovation and Conversion of a Typical Block at Mission Hill, prepared for the Grunsfeld Research Incentive Fund, Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, MIT, June 1984 (Principal Investigator, with Michael Woods)
Program to Establish Cost-Effective and Efficient Procedures and Practices for Common Building Defects Detection, Diagnosis, and Scheduled Repair, prepared for the Office of Facilities Management, Division of Capital Planning and Operations, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, April 1984 (Co-Principal Investigator, with Eric Dluhosch)
Systems Approach to Spatial Planning, Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 1976
Professional Gatherings Organized
Management of Corporate Real Estate for the 1990s, Executive Seminar, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, in cooperation with the International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives (NACORE), June 10-15, 1990, Cambridge, Massachusetts (with Michael Joroff and Robert Silverman)
Construction Economics Session, 18th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Regional Science Association, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, May 12-14, 1989
Real Property Portfolio Management Forum, for the General Services Administration, Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, MIT, May 17, 1988, Washington, D.C. (with Michael Joroff)
Real Property Portfolio Management Symposium, for the Industrial Liaison Program, MIT, Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, MIT, May 11, 1988, Cambridge, Massachusetts (with Michael Joroff)
Real Property Portfolio Management Symposium, Laboratory of Architecture and Planning, MIT, January 26-27, 1987, Cambridge, Massachusetts (with Michael Joroff)
Second Meeting of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium's Panel on Building Economics and Industry Studies, MIT, February 21-22, 1985, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Invited Lectures and Panel Discussions
“Sustainable Construction: Some Economic Challenges,” Keynote Address, Sharing Knowledge on Sustainable Building International Conference, University of Bari, Italy, December 15-19, 1999
“Corporate Real Estate Management: CREMRU-JCI Survey, 1993-1999,” Life-Long Learning Center, Helsinki University of Technology, Finnish Trade Center, London, November 3, 1999
“The Future of International Construction,” Civil Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, May 11, 1999
“Global Construction Markets,” Presentation at the Managing International Construction Business (MICB) Program, Helsinki University of Technology, Saariselkä, Finland, April 19-20, 1999
"Annual Surveys of Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe and North America, 1993- 1997," Conference on Scenarios and Trends for the Working Environment of the Third Millennium, DEGW Italia, Milano, Italy, October 31, 1997
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“Global Construction Markets,” Presentation at the Managing International Construction Business (MICB) Program, Helsinki University of Technology, Aulanko, Finland, October 5, 1997
"Annual Surveys of International Construction, 1992-1996," Keynote address at the International Symposium of CIB Working Commission W55, "Building Economics," Zagreb University, Zagreb, Croatia, September 4-8, 1996
"International Construction," Keynote address at the 8th International Symposium of CIB Working Commission W65, "Organization and Management of Construction," Strathclyde University, Glasgow, August 29, 1996
"The Future of International Construction: ECERU Annual Surveys, 1992-1995," Department of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, June 26, 1996
"Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe and the USA: CREMRU Annual Surveys, 1993- 1995," International Facilities Management Association, Hong Kong Branch, Hong Kong Club, Hong Kong, June 25, 1996
Panel Member, "If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Improve It," Panel Discussion on Measurement of Customer Satisfaction, with Howard Morgan (chair), Colin Clarckson, and Paul de Marchand, at the 5th Annual Conference of the British Council for Offices, Leeds, May 17, 1996
"International Construction Trends: ECERU Annual Surveys, 1992-94," for the Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (Northern Chapter), at the School of Housing, Building, and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, April 1, 1995
"Italian Construction in a European Perspective," Dipartimento di Analisi Economica e Sociale del Territorio (DAEST), Università di Venezia, March 6, 1995 (with Roberto Pietroforte)
"Corporate Real Estate Practices in Europe and North America," IDRC Europe Professional Seminar, Amsterdam, September 29, 1994
"Key Findings of the 1993 CREMRU Survey of Corporate Real Estate Management Practices in Europe and the United States," luncheon talk, International Facilities Management Association, Hong Kong Branch, Hong Kong Club, Hong Kong, November 18, 1993
"Corporate Real Estate Management," Department of Building and Real Estate Workshop, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong, November 15, 1993
"The Future of International Construction: 1992 and 1993 ECERU Opinion Surveys," Department of Building and Real Estate Workshop, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong, November 9, 1993
"The Use of Input-Output Analysis for Total Quality Management in Construction," seminar at COMETT 2 Course, Total Quality Management Information Systems for the Construction Process, Department of Architecture, University of Florence, Florence, April 14, 1993
"Corporate Real Estate Management," Instituto Cooperativo per l'Innovazione, Lega Nazionale Cooperative e Mutue, Bologna, March 24, 1993
"What Time This Workplace?," workshop at the DEGW Workplace Forum, DEGW, London, March 12, 1993
DEGW is one of the leading firms integrating various aspects of facilities planning, design, and management; the Workplace Forum director is Dr. Francis Duffy, one of the foremost professionals in the field of facilities management Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 21
"The Future of International Construction: The Case of Central and East Europe," Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, November 17, 1992
"Matching Business and Property Strategic Plans," Property Branch, British Airways Plc., London, October 8, 1992
"The International Construction Market," Verband Schweizerischer Generalunternehmer (Association of Swiss Contractors), Seminar on the UK Construction Industry, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading, October 1, 1992
"Globalization of Construction Activity and Changing Construction Technology," the 100th Anniversary of the Danish Society of Chemical, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineers, Copenhagen, June 1, 1992
"Matching Business and Property Strategies," Executive Seminar, Stanhope Properties Plc., London, May 28, 1992
"Property Performance Indicators," IDRC Europe Professional Seminar, Amsterdam, April 2, 1992
IDRC (Industrial Development Research Council) is one of the two foremost associations of corporate real estate executives in the US, and IDRC Europe is its European branch
"Healthy Buildings: Benefits and Costs," Health in Buildings Conference, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London, London, March 24, 1992
"Property Performance Indicators," workshop at the DEGW Workplace Forum, DEGW, London, February 13, 1992
DEGW is one of the leading firms integrating various aspects of facilities planning, design, and management; the Workplace Forum director is Dr. Francis Duffy, one of the foremost professionals in the field of facilities management
"The Rôle of the Construction Industry in Developing Economies--A Global View," lecture and workshop, Association of Construction Contractors of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka, January 23, 1992
"The Rôle of Construction in Economic Development," Faculties of Architecture and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, January 21, 1992
"Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models in the US and UK since World War II," Economics Seminar (Seminar Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Costa), Department of Economics, University of Venice, January 13, 1992
"Space Architecture: The MIT Experience," Fifth Year Studio (Studio Instructors: Messrs. Tom Porter and Taseer Ahmad), School of Architecture, Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, October 15, 1991
"The Construction Industry—A Shrinking Market," Crown House Engineering Annual Meeting, Coventry, June 9, 1991
Crown House Engineering is one of the leading building services, industrial, and environmental engineering firms in the UK with an annual turnover in the order of £150 million (since 1989 Crown House Engineering is part of Tarmac Plc., the UK's largest building materials and construction group)
"The European Construction Industry to the Year 2000," Genie Climatique International - Reunion and Annual General Meeting 1991, Edinburgh, June 6, 1991 Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 22
Genie Climatique International is the European federation of heating and ventilating contractors' associations
"International Comparisons of Construction Activity," Executive Course for Bovis Construction Limited, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading, March 18, 1991
"What do We Mean by Building Technology?" Inaugural Lecture, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, February 18, 1990
"A Comparative Analysis of International Construction Using Input-Output Tools," Master of Science in Building Economics and Management Program Lecture Series (Course Instructors: Messrs. Graham Ive and Graham Winch), Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College London, November 22, 1990
"European Construction Market in Global Perspective," Strategies for Europe: A Review of Business Opportunities in the Construction Industry, Executive Seminar organized by SIAR-Bossard and Center for Strategic Studies in Construction, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, November 2, 1990
Chairman, Internationalization of the Construction Industry, Stockholm Construction Symposium, Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, October 4-5, 1990
"Real Property Portfolio Management: Strategic Issues of Facilities Management," Summer Seminar, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, in cooperation with Japanese Facilities Management Association (JFMA), Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 16, 1990
"Space Architecture: An Educational Experiment at MIT," Architecture 1990 and 17th UIA Congress, Montreal, Canada, May 27 - June 1, 1990
"Business and Building Cycles: Whither the Boston Building Market?" CBT Architects, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, May 21, 1990.
CBT Architects is one of the leading architectural design firms in Boston
"Real Property Portfolio Management: Toward a New Professional Profile," Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 27, 1990
"Building as an Economic Process," Facilities Management '89: Preparing for the Global Decade, Office of Facilities Management Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 1-3, 1989
Panel member, "Managing Corporate Real Estate Assets—Attributes of Professionalism: The 1987 MIT Survey," general session panel discussion with Robert Silverman (moderator), Michael Joroff, and Patrice Derrington, at the 16th Annual Symposium and Exposition, International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives, Baltimore, June 19, 1989
"Building in Space," Space Technology Lectures, Students for Exploration and Development of Space, MIT Chapter, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 22, 1989
"Real Property Portfolio Management," Building Technology Seminar, Building Technology Group, Department of Architecture, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 3, 1989
Panel member, "Real Estate and Design," panel discussion with Patrice Derrington (moderator), Robert Gutman, and Robert Johnson, at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Chicago, Illinois, March 6, 1989
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"Real Property Portfolio Management: From Facilities Management to Corporate Strategy," Japanese Facilities Management Association (JFMA), Tokyo, November 29, 1988
"Real Property Portfolio Management: Financial Aspects," Sankin-Kai Group Info-Communication Study Tour of the United States, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4, 1988
The 47-member Sankin-Kai Group, founded in 1978 and lead by the Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank, is one of the six most important industrial groupings in Japan
"Building on Mars," General Motors Directors of Engineering Meeting, Industrial Liaison Program, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 3, 1988
"Real Property Portfolio Management," Japanese Ministry of Construction (MOC) Study Tour of the United States, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 29, 1988
"Strategic Choices and Real Property Management: The Rôle of the Executive," Facilities Management '88: New Tools for Old Tasks, Office of Facilities Management Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2-3, 1988
"Building as an Economic Process: Some Austrian Themes in Building Economics," Austrian Economics Colloquium, Department of Economics, New York University, New York, New York, March 22, 1988
"Facilities Management and Real Property Portfolio Management," Japanese Facilities Management Association (JFMA) Study Tour of the United States, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 16, 1988
"Building as an Economic Process: Economizing, Designing, and Building," Design Research Seminar, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 23, 1988
"Space Architecture: Some Recent Experiences at MIT," Department of Urban Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University, Tokyo, January 25, 1988
"Space Habitat Design Workshop: An Interdepartmental Educational Experiment," Boston Chapter of the L5/National Space Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 5, 1987
"The Executive Support Dilemma for Facilities Maintenance Systems," Facilities Management '87: A New Focus on Operations, Office of Facilities Management Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 27-29, 1987
"Decision-Support Systems for Real Property Portfolio Management," Department of Civil Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, March 26, 1987
"Building Economics and Expert Systems," Laboratory of Urban Planning and Building Design, Technical Research Center of Finland, Espoo, Finland, March 23, 1987
"Expert Systems, Qualitative Reasoning, and the Economic Rôle of Time in Architectural Design," Design Research Seminar, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 18, 1986
"Qualitative Reasoning in Building Economics: Some Recent Applications of Expert Systems," Center for Building Economics and Industry Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, January 9, 1986
"Some Topological Properties of Multiregional Input-Output Systems and Formalized Development Processes," Economics Seminar, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, May 26, 1983 Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 24
"Yugoslav Self-Government and the Planning Process," Development Luncheon, Harvard Institute of International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 19, 1979
"Transportation Planning in the Context of a Systems Approach to Spatial Planning," Transportation Department, Belgrade University, Belgrade, April 18, 1979
"The Rôle of Landscape Planning in Spatial Planning: A Systems Approach," Landscape Planning Division, Biotechnical Department, Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, March 15, 1979
"Computer Methods in Spatial Analysis," Ljubljana International Advanced Planning Workshop, Yugoslav- American Project in Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Planning Institute of Slovenia, Ljubljana, September 3-14, 1973
Exhibitions
Works, Hereford Salon, London, October 1998 - January 1999
Works, EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk, July - September 1998
Works, Hereford Salon, London, November 1996 - January 1997
Works, Hereford Salon, London, April 1994
Supervision and Examination of Dissertations
Ph.D. In Construction Management & Engineering, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading, Reading
David Crosthwaite, Expected Completion Date: 2000 (Supervisor)
Robert Chapman, "Risk Analysis and Management in the Design Phase of Construction Projects," 1998 (Supervisor)
Jose Lopes, "Information Technology in Property Management," 1998 (Supervisor)
In Ho Kim, "A Model for Life Cycle Decision Making During the Process of Building Planning and Design," 1993 (Internal Examiner)
Ph.D. in Land Management & Development, Department of Land Management & Development, University of Reading, Reading
Iskandar Ismail, "The Operational Property Management Process in Large Non-Property Organizations in Malaysia: An Organizational Perspective," 1996 (Internal Examiner)
Ph.D. in Building Engineering and Surveying, Department of Building Engineering and Surveying, Heriot- Watt University, Edinburgh
John G. Lowe, "Construction Productivity: An Input-Output Approach," 1993 (External Examiner)
Interdepartmental Ph.D., School of Graduate Studies, MIT
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Steven Duckworth, "Performance Implications of Corporate Real Estate Strategic Orientation," 1992 (Co-Supervisor, with Professor Leon Groisser)
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Tampere University of Technology
Olli Niemi, "Input-Output Analysis of Building Construction in Finland," 1987 (Opponent)
In Scandinavian countries prominent scholars in the field are invited to serve as opponents in public dissertation defense proceedings
Master of Science in Project Management by Part-Time Study, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading
Mark Gibson, "The Economic Cycle and its Effects on Development and Construction," 1993
Master of Science in Construction Management, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading
Henrik Bang, "Transaction Cost Theory and International Construction: A Field Study of Scandinavian Contracting in the UK," 1991
Dan Tindiwensi, "Modelling Low Cost Housing Projects: The Case of Uganda," Expected completion date: September 1995 (with Keith Hutchinson)
Master of Science in Architecture Studies, Department of Architecture, MIT
Jacqueline McBride, "Case Study as a Teaching Tool Integrating Design, Energy, and Economic Analyses," 1984
Recipient of Cabbott Award
Rodrigo Braña, "Buildings and Corporate Strategy: Toward a Management System Model," 1985
Kazunobu Minami, "Structural and Organizational Changes of the Housebuilding Industries in the United States and Japan," 1986
Recipient of Tucker-Voss Award
David Johnson, "Environmental Design Guidelines for a Second Generation, LEO, Permanently Manned Space Station," 1987
Constantin Cavoulakos, "CADD: On Reorganizing the Practice of Architecture," 1987
Chittaranjan Swamidasan, "The Daylit Array: Strategies for Daylighting the Deep-Plan Office," 1987
Peter Veale, "Corporate Real Estate Asset Management in the United States," 1988
Jyoti Deolalikar, "A Model for Performance Management in Real Properties Using Statistical Techniques," 1989
Joint Master of Science in Architecture Studies and Master of City Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT
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Shubhada Bhave, "Resurrection of the Bombay Trans-Harbor Link Project by Using Wheaton's Monocentric Models of Urban Land Use," 1987
Master of Architecture, Department of Architecture, MIT
Marc Maxwell, "Informing Design Decisions: An Approach to Corporate Building Design," 1984
Samuel Isenstadt, "The Expedition of Expertise: Designing an Expert System for Design," 1985
Recipient of Boston Society of Architects' Chamberlain Award
Paul Lukez, "Form, Finance, and Use Over Time," 1985
Recipient of Goody Prize and American Institute of Architects' Medal
Andres Schcolnik, "Real Property Portfolio Management: A Model for a Decision-Support System," 1988
Master of City Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Caroline Clarke, "The Construction Industry and Economic Development: The Case of Sri Lanka," 1984
Clare Delmar, "The Interindustry Structure of Ireland, 1956-1982: Implications for Economic Development and Strategic Planning, 1986
Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, MIT
Jose Fernandez, "Quality Assurance in Facility Procurement," 1987
Koji Ikkatai, "Balancing Financial and Strategic Aspects of Real Property Portfolio Management," 1990
Undergraduate Program, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading
Stanley Harvey, "Regional Integration and Construction: The Caribbean Experience," 1991
Bryce Wolfe, "Does London Need an Office Development Policy?" 1992
Andrew O'Brien, "Effect of Property Assets on Construction Firms' Profitability," 1992
Ruchi Gupta, "Construction in Outer Space: A New Future," 1995
Daniel Butt, "Facilities management: A strategic management concept for organisational change?" 1996
Laurence Crow, "Decemmissioning of Nuclear Power Stations: The Great Debate," 1996
Recognition
Carassus, J., “Production and Management in Construction: An economic Approach,” Cahiers du CSTB, 1999, pp. 3, 12
References to Whither Global Construction? ECERU Opinion Surveys, 1992-1997 (1997)
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Saari, A., The Viability of Rehabilitated Apartment Buildings: A Feasibility Study Method for Building Rehabiliatrion Projecs Developed by Action Research, Civil Engineering and Construction Series No. 111, Acta Polytechica Scandinavica, Espoo: Helsinki University of Technology, 1998, pp. 97-100, 211
References to Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Lopes, J., “The Construction Industry and Macroeconomy in Sub-Saharan Africa post 1970,” Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 16, No. 6, 1998, pp. 637, 648-649
References to “What Do We Mean by Building Technology?” (1991) and “The Future of International Construction” (1992)
Crosthwaite, D., “The Internationalization of British Construction Companies, 1990-96: An Empirical Approach,” Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1998, pp. 392, 395
References to “The Future of International Construction: Secular Patterns of Growth and Decline” (1992)
Property Week (London), December 5, 1997, p. 2
Reference to CREMRU-JCI Annual Survey of Corporate Real Estate Practices
De Mesnard, L., "A Biproportional Filter to Compare Technical and Allocation Coefficient Variations," Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 37, No. 4, November 1997, pp. 544, 561
References to "Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models" (1986)
Dietzenbacher, E., "In Vindication of the Gosh Model: A Reinterpretation as a Price Model," Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 37, No. 4, November 1997, pp. 630, 645-647
References to "Comparative Stability Analysis of Multiregional Input-Output Models: Colmn, Row, and Leontief-Strout Gravity Coefficient Models " (1984); "Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models" (1986); "Supply-Side Multiregional Input- Output Models" (1988); "Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input- Output Models in the UK" (1993, with Xu Bing); and "Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand- Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models: The Case of Japan 1960-1990" (1996, with Yashiro)
Zangrandi, G., "Il Corporate Real Estate Management," Il Nuovo Cantiere, March 1997, pp. 8-13, and May 1997, pp. 16-20
Interview in two parts with Professor Gabriella Zangrandi from the University of Rome
Lowe, J.G., "Technological Change and Construction," Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction (Ulster: University of Ulster), Vol. 1, No. 2, July 1996, pp. 89, 93
References to "What Do We Mean by Building Technology?" (1991, 1992)
Litwin, G.H., J. Bray, and K. Lusk Brooke, Mobilizing the Organization: Bringing Strategy to Life, London: Prentice Hall, 1996, pp. 123, 127, 249, 287
References to the annual survey of international construction conducted under the auspices of the European Construction Economics Research Unit (ECERU), and to Lusk Brooke et al. (1994)
Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 28
MacSporran, C., and S.N. Tucker, "Target Budget Levels for Building Operating Costs," Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 14, No. 2, March 1996, pp. 103-119
Reference to "Real Property Portfolio Management or What the Client of Building Services Needs to Do to Ensure Satisfactory Building Performance" (1991)
Goh Bee Hua, "Residential Construction Demand Forecasting Using Economic Indicators: A Comparative Study of Artificial Neural Networks and Multiple Regression," Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 14, No. 1, January 1996, pp. 25-34
Reference to Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Steadman, J.P., "Built Forms and Building Types: Some Speculations," Planning and Design, Vol. 21, Special Issue, Festschrift in Honor of Lionel March, 1994, pp. S7-S30
Reference to "Allometry in Micro-Environmental Morphology" (1972)
Dandri, G., "Per un'economia e un economista delle costruzioni," Performance (Rome: Edilstampa), No. 25, January-March 1993, pp. 79-90 (in Italian)
References to Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Tay Poh Huat and Low Sui Pheng, "The Fuzzy Industry Maturity Grid (FIMG) and Its Application to the Singapore Construction Industry," Construction Management and Economics, Vol 12, No. 2, 1994, pp. 125-138
References to "The Role of Construction in the National Economy" (19865, with Minami), "Qualitative Input-Output Analysis" (1989), "The World Building Market, 1970-1985" (1990), "Historical Comparison of Construction Sectors in the United States, Japan, Italy, and Finland Using Input-Output Analysis" (1990, with Pietroforte), "What Do We Mean by Building Technology?" (1991, 1992)
Dusckworth, S.L., "Total Quality Management: A Team-Based Approach to Monitoring Real Property Performance," Industrial Development, October 1993, pp. 20-25
References to Building as an Economic Process (1989) and "Real Property Portfolio Management or What the Client of Building Services Needs to Do to Ensure Satisfactory Building Performance" (1991)
Mulligan, G.E., "Ökonomie der bebauten Umwelt" ("Economics of the Built Environment"), in H. Harden and H. Kahlen, eds., Planen, Bauen, Nutzen und Instandhalten von Bauten, Stuttgart, Berlin & Köln: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1993, pp. 91-2, 97 (in German)
References to Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Groák, S., The Idea of Building: Thought and Action in the Design and Production of Buildings, London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1992, p. 183
Reference to “What do We Mean by Building Technology?” (1991)
Dandri, G., "Lo sviluppo a lungo termine dell'attività mondiale nel settore delle costruzioni," Performance (Rome: Edilstampa), No. 23, July-September 1992, pp. 21-32 (in Italian)
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Translation of the main parts of "The Future of International Construction" (1992), presented at a CIB W55 meeting in Genova in September 1992, and summary of the discussion that followed this presentation
Euro-Build, No. 45, September 25, 1992, p. 3
Blurb on the 1992 ECERU survey of the future of international construction
Heath, Tom, Book review of Building as an Economic Process (1989), in Architecture Australia, April 1992, p. 68
Polenske, K., and P. Sivitanides, "Linkages in the Construction Sector," Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 24, 1990, pp. 150, 154, 156, 160
References to "Direct and Indirect Resource Utilization by the Construction Sector" (1988), "The Rôle of Construction in the National Economy," with Minami (1986), "Historical Comparison of Construction Sectors in the United States, Japan, Italy, and Finland Using Input-Output Tables," with Pietroforte (1990), Minami's Master's Thesis (1986), and Delmar's Master's Thesis (1986)
Ofori, G., The Construction Industry: Aspects of its Economics and Management, Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1990, pp. 14, 51-52, 57, 92, 103, 218
References to "Direct and Indirect Resource Utilization by the Construction Sector" (1988) and Building as an Economic Process (1989)
CIB Information, No. 1, January-February 1991, p. 4
Reference to "The Future of International Construction: Discussion Paper" (1991) in a blurb about the CIB W55 Meeting in Istanbul, May 28 - June 1, 1991
CIB Information, No. 1, January-February 1991, p. 17
Reference to "The World Building Market, 1970-1985" (1990) in a blurb about the Joint CIB W55 and W65 Symposium on Building Economics and Construction Management, in Sydney, March 14-21, 1990
Raftery, J., Principles of Building Economics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1991, pp. 17, 45, 49, 51-52, 58-59, 191, 210
References to "Choices, Values, and Time: The Psychology of Cost-Benefit Assessments" (1986), "Timing of Space: Some Thoughts on Building Economics" (1986), and Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Gang Shao and R.E. Miller, "Demand-Side and Supply-Side Commodity-Industry Multiregional Input- Output Models and Spatial Linkages in the US Regional Economy," Economic Systems Research, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1990, pp. 390, 401
References to "Some Conditions of Macroeconomic Stability of Multiregional Models" (1977), "Comparative Stability Analysis of Multiregional Input-Output Models: Column, Row, and Leontief-Strout Gravity Coefficient Models" (1984), "Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand- Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models" (1986), and "Supply-Side Multiregional Input-Output Models" (1988) Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 30
Building Employers Confederation Business Bulletin, No. 20, November 16, 1990, p. 2 (item 420)
Blurb on the establishment of the European Construction Economics Research Unit (ECERU)
Ruegg, R.T, and H.E. Marshall, Building Economics: Theory and Practice, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990, pp. 3, 15
References to Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Pietroforte, R., "Space Growth and Change in Academic Buildings," Building Research & Practice, Vol. 18, No. 5, 1990, p. 318
Reference to Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Johnson, R.E., The Economics of Building: A Practical Guide for the Design Professional, New York: Wiley, 1990, pp. 4, 10, 235
References to Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Facility Management in Architecture, Tokyo: Kajima Publishing Company, pp. 160-165 (in Japanese)
General references to my work in real property portfolio management (no specific citation)
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1, March 1990
Book blurb on Building as an Economic Process (1989)
Interview with John Raedler, the John Raedler Show, Radio 2GB, Sydney, March 20, 1990, 5:50-6:00PM
Concerning the potential competition for investment funds between East Europe and the Pacific Rim countries discussed in my keynote address at the CIB Symposium on Building Economics and Construction Management in Sydney
Sebestyén, G., Book review of Building as an Economic Process (1989), in Construction Management and Economics, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 88-90
Avis, M., V. Gibson, and J. Watts, Managing Operational Property Assets, Department of Land Management and Development, University of Reading, Reading, 1989, pp. 77
References to Real Property Portfolio Management, with Joroff and Veale (1987), and Veale's Master's Thesis (1988)
Rose, A., and W. Miernyk, "Input-Output Analysis: The First Fifty Years," Economic Systems Research (Carfax, Oxford, for the International Input-Output Association), Vol. 1, No. 2, 1989, pp. 229-271
Reference to "Comparative Stability Analysis of Multiregional Input-Output Models: Column, Row, and Leontief-Strout Gravity Coefficient Models" (1984)
Miller, R.E., "Stability of Supply Coefficients and Consistency of Supply-Driven and Demand-Driven Input-Output Models: A Comment," Environment and Planning, Vol. 21, 1989, pp. 1113-1120
Reference to "Comparative Stability Analysis of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Input-Output Models" (1986) Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 31
Vischer, J.C., Environmental Quality in Offices, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989, pp. 10, 234
Reference to "Timing of Space: Some Thoughts on Building Economics" (1986)
Book review of Building as an Economic Process (1989), in The MIT Report, Vol. 17, No. 6, July-August 1989, p. 14
Book review of Building as an Economic Process (1989), in Corporate Real Estate Executive, Vol. 4, No. 5, June 1989, p. 71
Szöke, K., "Az epitesgazdasagi kutatas ujabb iranyai az USA-ban" ("New Trends in the Development of Building Economics in the USA"), Epitesugyi Szemle (Budapest: Ministry of Construction), Vol. 32, No. 4, 1989, pp. 110-113 (in Hungarian)
Article on major contributions of Building as an Economic Process (1989)
[Dandri, G.] Book review of Building as an Economic Process (1989), in Il Nuovo Corriere dei Costruttori (Rome), Vol. 68, No. 14, April 3, 1989, p. 30 (in Italian)
"Burrow, Don't Build," Technology Review (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT), Vol. 92, No. 3, April 1989, p. 80
Blurb on design and construction of human settlements in space
Tech Talk (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT), Vol. 33, No. 18, January 11, 1989, p. 3
Photograph and blurb from the Space Habitat Design Workshop (Fall 1988)
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, September 1988, pp. 1359, 1481, 1589, 1592
Citation of "Supply-Side Multiregional Input-Output Models" (1988)
"Real Property Joint-Research Begins with MIT," Digital This Week (Maynard: Digital Equipment Corporation), Vol. 15, No. 10, June 13, 1988, p. 7
Article on the research project for Digital Equipment Corporation
"Digital Equipment Sponsors New Research on Property Management," Plan (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT), No. 26, June 1988, p. 6
Article on the research project for Digital Equipment Corporation
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXVI, No. 2, June 1988, pp. 825, 886, 1056
Citation of "Secrecy and Publicity in the Marshallian Planned Economy" (1986)
Brookman, D.C., "Coming: A Campus on the Moon," Design News, May 23, 1988, pp. 32-33
Article on the Space Habitat Design Workshop (Fall 1987)
Karlen, I., The Building Research Process and Its Information Problems: A State-of-the-Knowledge Report, Stockholm: The Scientific Advisory Board of the Swedish Council for Building Research, 1987, pp. 141, 145
Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 32
Reference to "The Naive Building Economics Manifesto" (1986)
Brandon, P.S., "Life Cycle Appraisal: Further Considerations," in A. Spedding, ed., Building Maintenance: Economics and Management, London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1987, pp. 159-160
Reference to "Choices, Values, and Time: The Psychology of Cost-Benefit Assessments" (1986)
Mallove, E.F., "Students Design Space Habitat," Tech Talk (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT), Vol. 32, No. 19, December 16, 1987, p. 3
Article on the Space Habitat Design Workshop (Fall 1987)
Niemi, O, Input-Output Analysis of Building Construction in Finland, Tampere: Tampere University of Technology, 1987, pp. 22, 113
References to "Direct and Indirect Resource Utilization by the Construction Sector" (1988) and Structural and Organizational Changes in the Housebuilding Industry in the United States and Japan, with Minami (1986)
[Lampe, D.R.] "Real Property Portfolio Management," The MIT Report (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT), Vol. XV, No. 7, September 1987, pp. 9-10
Article on real property portfolio management research to date and its future prospects
Interview with Mira Ruzic, Science Program, Radio Belgrade, August 23, 1987, 4:30-5:00PM (in Serbo- Croatian)
On design and construction of human settlements in space
Interview with Suncana Novak, Start (Zagreb, Yugoslavia), No. 484, August 8, 1987, pp. 44-47 (in Serbo- Croatian)
On design and construction of human settlements in space
Mathieu, R., "The Prefabricated Housing Industries in the United States, Sweden and Japan," Construction Review (Washington, D.C.: Department of Commerce), July-August 1987, pp. 14 and 20
References to Structural and Organizational Changes in the Housebuilding Industry in the United States and Japan, with Minami (1986), and Minami's Master's Thesis (1986)
Interview with Dr. Yoshiyuki Tsushima (Takenaka Komuten Ltd.), Architecture and Technology, No. 7, 1987, pp. 78-79 (in Japanese)
On methods of real property portfolio management
"Space Station Design Workshops: Early Steps Toward an International Space University," Plan (School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts), No. 23, June 1987, pp. 1-2
Article on the Space Habitat Design Workshop (Fall 1986)
Mattill, J., "Four-Month Miracle: Innovative Space Station," Technology Review (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT), Vol. 90, No. 3, April 1987, pp. MIT 13-14
Article on the Space Habitat Design Workshop (Fall 1986)
Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 33
Haas Smith, K., "What's Likely to Come Along Next?" Architecture, March 1987, pp. 106-108
References to the Space Habitat Design Workshop (Fall 1986)
Tech Talk (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT), Vol. 31, No. 20, January 14, 1987, p. 3
Photograph and blurb from the Space Habitat Design Workshop (Fall 1986)
Comparative Systems and Planning: Economic Reading Lists, Course Outlines, Exams, Puzzles, and Problems, Vol. 17, Durham, North Carolina: Eno River Press, compiled by E. Tower, August 1985, pp. 46- 61
Course outline and reading list for "Planning in Socialist Countries" (Fall 1984), with Polenske and Lee
Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, June 1985, pp. 794, 854, 1070
Citation of "Comparative Stability Analysis of Multiregional Input-Output Models: Column, Row, and Leontief-Strout Gravity Coefficient Models" (1984)
Steadman, J.P., Architectural Morphology: An Introduction to the Geometry of Building Plans, London: Pion, 1983, pp. 177-179, 181-182, 185-188, 238, 269
References to "Allometry in Micro-Environmental Morphology" (1972), "Allometry in the Topologic Structure of Architectural Spatial Systems" (1973), and "An Introduction to Morphometric Analysis of Spatial Phenomena on a Micro-Environmental Scale" (Master's Thesis, 1972)
Polenske, K.R., The U.S. Multiregional Input-Output Accounts and Model, Lexington, Massachusetts, and Toronto: Lexington Books, 1980, p. 108
Reference to "Some Conditions of Macroeconomic Stability in Multiregional Models" (Ph.D. Dissertation, 1975)
Steadman, J.P., The Evolution of Design: Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. ix, 55-56, 251-252
References to "Allometry in Micro-Environmental Morphology" (1972), and "Allometry in the Topologic Structure of Architectural Spatial Systems" (1973)
Town Planning Review (London), Vol. 48, No. 4, October 1977, Book Notes, pp. 469-470
Book review of Systems Approach to Spatial Planning (1976)
March, L., ed., The Architecture of Form, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp. 22, 36, 483
References to "An Introduction to Morphometric Analysis of Spatial Phenomena on a Micro- Environmental Scale" (Master's Thesis, 1972)
Stevens, P.S., Patterns in Nature, Boston and Toronto: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1974, pp. 32-33, 226, 235.
Reference to "Allometry in Micro-Environmental Morphology" (1972) Ranko Bon: Curriculum vitae 34
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Eric Dluhosch, Emeritus Professor of Building Technology, Architecture Department, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, +1-617-253-4410
Roberto Pietroforte, Associate Professor of Construction Management, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609- 2280, USA, +1-508-8315295
Roger Flanagan, Professor of Construction Management, Department of Construction Management & Engineering, University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 219, Reading RG6 6AW, United Kingdom, +44 (0) 118 931-8201
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