Green construction and team design. Low road and high road teams to build energy-friendly houses

Monique Ramioul, Jos Benders and Jan Van Peteghem

World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2016, vol. 12, issue 1, 33-49

Abstract: Two case studies were conducted to investigate how construction companies, focusing on the growing market of energy-friendly houses, design teamwork. The first company opts for a low-road type with high levels of control and standardisation as well as a focus on an operation-based production flow. The strategy of the second company, in contrast, can be characterised as a high-road type: it is an employee-centred organisation model based on participation, empowered teamwork and investments in skills of the workers. The effects on the job quality of the construction workers in both companies are substantially different.

Keywords: green construction; energy-efficient construction; high-road teamwork; low-road teamwork; job quality; team design; team management; energy-friendly houses; case studies; construction industry; energy efficiency; green housing; management control; standardisation; operation-based production flow; employee-centred organisations; employee empowerment; skills investment. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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