A Study of Teams: How It All Began The Apollo Syndrome Teams Containing Similar Personalities Identifying further Team Roles Team Leadership The Missing Team Roles Developing an inventory Unsuccessful teams Winning teams Ideal team size Features of good members of a team Teams in Public Affairs How Belbin reports developed Case Studies in Using Belbin

Management teams: Why they succeed or fail

The presence of a sample in the neutron field of a nuclear reactor creates a perturbation of the local neutron fluxes. In general, the interpretation of the sample activation due to thermal and epithermal neutrons requires the knowledge of two corrective parameters: the thermal neutron self-shielding factor, Gth, and the resonance neutron self-shielding factor, Gres. Thermal neutron self-shielding factors in different materials (Al, Au, Cd, Co, Cu, Eu, Gd, In, Ir, Mo, Ni, Pt, Pb, Rh, Sc, Sm and Ta) and different geometries (foils, wires, spheres and) have been calculated by using the MCNP code.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods

Topics in current chemistry

Soviet Physics JETP

Plasma Chemistry: References

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Building performance and measurement : its place within a variable climate

The energy performance of buildings and the ability to accurately predict energy demand is of global importance. As the relative cost and environmental impact of harnessing energy increases so does our need for energy efficiency. Designing, constructing and retrofitting buildings to be more energy efficient requires a thorough understanding of the way each building behaves and responds to its climatic variations. Although the measurement of a building’s energy consumption is straightforward, understanding why consumption differs from that expected requires a detailed and systematic building performance analysis. The way a building is assembled and retrofitted affects performance, and thus each aspect of a building’s makeup should be measured or monitored to understand its behaviour. When attempting to understand the performance of a building, it is important to consider each element, the components used and the way that they interface to perform as a whole. The measurement of building components in the laboratory is relatively well documented, but the testing and measuring of buildings once constructed in the field is an emerging science. This chapter presents the methods used to survey, measure and monitor building performance in the field and how the work is being used to inform the next generation of energy-efficient buildings.

Surveying and Measuring the Thermal Properties of Buildings

Barry's Advanced Construction of Construction of Buildings (2nd ed.)

The importance of group interaction in construction projects should not be underestimated. However, observing, capturing and understanding the behaviour, dynamics and nature of even a small group’s interaction is difficult. Individual behaviour, speed of interaction, sociological, psychological, organisational and environmental factors that influence the process make group research complicated. The tools used to capture and analyse group interaction must be relatively simple to use but effective. Unfortunately the growing interest in construction communication and group behaviour is not matched with developments in interaction based research methods. A problem faced by researchers is whether research tools are appropriate and will produce useable and meaningful results. The paper reviews six research methods and tests their usefulness on a group of post-graduate research students studying group interaction. Often the difficulties with using such tools are not selfevident. The practical limitations associated with each method are discussed along with their potential benefits.

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Christopher Gorse

Papers

Building performance and measurement : its place within a variable climate

Surveying and Measuring the Thermal Properties of Buildings

Barry's Advanced Construction of Construction of Buildings (2nd ed.)

Group interaction research methods

Researching Interpersonal Communication in AEC Projects