Recently, the concept of social value in construction has seen increasing policy, practice and research interest. In part, this interest stems from growing recognition that construction projects, and especially megaprojects, can create huge social impacts. Although many studies have focussed on defining and developing measures for quantifying social value, qualitative meanings and interpretations of these measures are relatively under-examined. In this paper, two instrumental case studies of infrastructure megaprojects in nuclear decommissioning are analysed to investigate the process of meaning-making of social value. Lessons are drawn from taking a more qualitative, dynamic and processual approach. The findings highlight the limitations of reductionism in existing quantitative measures and emphasise the importance of time and place in understanding the ever-changing idea (and ideals) of delivering social value. Social value is thus a condition of, and conditioned by, ongoing negotiations throughout the lifecycle. Adding to social value research that is dominated by quantitative studies, the nuances highlighted in the case studies show the need to move beyond static measures at a point in time to consider the ongoing and never-ceasing process of transforming social value in construction.

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社会价值的时空动态：英国两个核退役案例研究的经验教训


近年来，社会价值概念在建设中引起了越来越多的政策、实践和研究兴趣。在某种程度上，这种兴趣源于人们越来越认识到建设项目，尤其是大型项目，可以产生巨大的社会影响。尽管许多研究都集中在定义和开发量化社会价值的措施上，但这些措施的定性含义和解释相对而言还没有得到足够的检验。本文分析了核退役中大型基础设施项目的两个工具性案例研究，以调查社会价值的意义建构过程。我们可以从采取更加定性、动态和过程性的方法中吸取经验教训。研究结果强调了现有定量措施中还原论的局限性，并强调了时间和地点在理解不断变化的提供社会价值的想法（和理想）方面的重要性。因此，社会价值是整个生命周期中持续谈判的条件和条件。除了以定量研究为主的社会价值研究之外，案例研究中强调的细微差别表明，需要超越某个时间点的静态衡量标准，以考虑建设中社会价值转变的持续且永不间断的过程。