Communicating Construction

Liz Male MBE is the founder of LMC (Liz Male Consulting Ltd). She has 30 years’ experience of marketing communications, corporate reputation and issues-led PR for the property and construction industry in both agency and in-house roles. Penny Norton has worked in construction PR for 20 years, during which time she has covered all elements of communications for the built environment, from preplanning consultation through to media relations for completed schemes. Penny is the author of Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning: A Twenty-First Century Guide and she writes extensively for construction publications.

1. Introduction 2. Communications for planning: effective communication through consultation 3. Communications for architecture: telling the stories about our places and cities – communications strategies for architecture and urbanism 4. Communications for major contractors: embracing twenty-first-century communications challenges 5. Communications for specialist subcontractors: demonstrating value in the specialist supply chain 6. Communications for construction products: promotional practices from specification to installation 7. Communications for infrastructure: successful stakeholder engagement on transport and infrastructure projects 8. Communications for building consultancies: strategies, methods and examples 9. Communications for construction technology: adopting a strategic approach to a rapidly changing sector 10. Communications for sustainability: sustainability communications in construction and the built environment 11. Conclusion: the future of communicating construction