Changing conditions in Higher Education and national funding regimes preceded a proliferation of construction projects in universities between 1996 and 2006. This book reviews a hundred projects between 1996 and 2006, and uses 9 detailed case studies from the author's time in charge of capital projects at the University of Cambridge to show us how these projects were conceived, argued for, designed, procured, managed, constructed, and passed on to building users. Readers with an interest in project management, estate management, University management, or the history of the University of Cambridge will find this fascinating and wide-ranging book to be uniquely valuable.

David Adamson is a consultant on sustainable construction, and lectures at the University of Cambridge. He was Director of Construction Policy for UK HM Treasury between 2006 and 2007, and Director of University Estates at the University of Cambridge from 1998 to the end of 2005. David was educated in Edinburgh and at King’s College, Cambridge, and then served around the world in the Royal Engineers, commanding a field regiment and serving as a staff-officer in NATO HQ Europe. He has previously co-authored Change in the Construction Industry 1993–2003, Routledge, 2006 and two books on the underground use of foamed concrete. He is a visiting professor at UCL and UAE.