ARCOM 2018 - Deadline for abstracts Friday 12th January: Final Call
Chris Gorse
Building, Energy and Sustainability Leadership, Professor of Construction Engineering and Management
ARCOM 2018: Construction Management Conference : Queens University Belfast 3-5 September 2018
Call for Abstracts: https://www.arcom.ac.uk/conf-next.php
A Productive Relationship: Balancing Fragmentation and Integration
ARCOM 2018 returns to Belfast, drawing on the hospitality of Queen’s University in partnership with the Dublin Institute for Technology. We are fortunate to host this conference at one of the oldest UK Universities and its historic campus. The main conference will be in the Grade II listed Riddel Hall, with the social event in the University's Great Hall and Gala evening in Titanic Belfast.
We are currently calling for abstracts that address the topics listed, that continue to bind the ARCOM community together as well as those that address the central theme, ‘Balancing fragmentation and integration’ and the track proposals listed on the conference web page. The ARCOM Conference is an inclusive conference that covers a wide range of topics pertinent to construction work. Topics covered include:
Building information modelling
Equality and diversity
Human resources management
Information management
Infrastructure development
Offsite and engineered construction
Planning, productivity and quality
Research and education
Sustainability in the built environment
Construction design & technology
Disaster management and resilience
Health, safety and well-being
Law and contracts
Other related themes considered
Submission of Abstracts and Keywords
Please submit your abstract of around 300 words and include up to 5 keywords on-line via the MyARCOM portal where you can also select your preferred thematic track (see overleaf). Abstracts will be sent to two refer-ees. Only the authors of abstracts that pass this peer-review process will be invited to submit full papers. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 23:59hrs GMT on Friday 12 January 2018. Full papers must not exceed 10 sides of A4 and should adhere to the ARCOM paper template, which is available for download at www.arcom.ac.uk. Each paper will be reviewed by two members of the scientific committee. If the paper is accepted its authors will be invited to present the paper at the conference. At least one of the authors must be able attend the conference. Authors of accepted papers will have a choice to publish their paper as a working paper or an indexed paper.