Author: Richard N. M. Anderson ISBN: 0727729977 / 9780727729972 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
As the use of contracts grows within the construction industry there will inevitable be a rise in the number of disputes. This book clears a path through the potential minefield of dispute managemen...
Author: Nigel A Standing ISBN: 0727730304 / 9780727730305 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Value management incentive programmes and clauses are a powerful mechanism for allowing continuity of contractors’ input throughout a project delivery. The fact that incentive programmes have ...
Author: David Hodgkinson ISBN: 0727730223 / 9780727730220 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Local Government is under ever increasing pressure to operate effectively and economically. The current Best Value regime means that both value for money and the imperative of continuously improving...
Author: Ted Hutchin ISBN: 0727729799 / 9780727729798 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This book represents a new voice in the drive for enterprise thinking within organisations. Although Enterprise Resource Planning and similar approaches are now commonplace in industry they continue...
Author: Shamil Naoum ISBN: 0727728741 / 9780727728746 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
People are at the heart of any organization and a good understanding of how they interact with the structure as a whole is an essential ingredient for an organization’s success. This new book ...
Author: T. M. Hutchin ISBN: 0727730169 / 9780727730169 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Every organisation faces constraints which may seem insurmountable. The Theory of Constraints argues that the number of constraints is limited and can be identified through the application of a robu...
Author: Hamilton ISBN: 0727734970 / 9780727734976 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Managing Projects for success is a 'how to do it' book of considerable value to practitioners and students alike. It provides the challenge of theory application through a series of exercises and is...
Author: Jim Parkin ISBN: 0727728733 / 9780727728739 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
This book explores the nature of professional judgement and how it is used in planning, design and management. It is based on two decades of research on the psychology of judgement and its applicati...
Author: David Blockley ISBN: 0727727486 / 9780727727480 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
"This is a serious and impressive work... It will help those who are committed to changing the industry to create structures to do so, whether in one area or in totality. It offers a whole range of ...
Author: David Crosthwaite, Ranko Bon ISBN: 0727727494 / 9780727727497 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
What is the relationship between construction activity and economic development? Are they positively or negatively related, or is the relationship more complex? Does the role of construction change ...
Author: Tim Cole ISBN: 072772746X / 9780727727466 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
The construction industry is redefining effective partnering through the implementation of common information exchange standards - and no one can afford to be left behind.
In a text that is steer...
Author: James Mather, Tim Cornick ISBN: 0727727451 / 9780727727459 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book addresses the important issues involved in forming effective and profitable teams for construction projects - both within and between client, design and construction firms.
It is divide...
Author: James Armstrong, Ross Dixon, Simon Robinson ISBN: 072772598X / 9780727725981 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book examines the problems involved in making engineering decisions that affect the quality of life of large numbers of people worldwide and presents the individual, family, community and globa...
Author: Trevor Holroyd ISBN: 0727727362 / 9780727727367 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
Newly qualified engineers often find that the skills required when they enter the workplace are different from the skills they learnt throughout their education and training. This may result in them...
Author: John Timpson ISBN: 0727726722 / 9780727726728 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book will serve as a practical guide to construction adjudication for those involved with construction disputes. It will also serve as an essential reference for training adjudicators. It cover...
Author: Adrian Smith ISBN: 0727727125 / 9780727727121 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book examines the major aspects of the relationship between government and the private sector in the provision of high quality, sustainable, and affordable privately funded infrastructure proje...
Author: Ian Ingram, Laurence Marsh, Roger Flanagan ISBN: 0727727141 / 9780727727145 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
'This report provides a vision of construction in 2010. I do hope you will read this report and develop specific ideas which you feel are relevant to your organisation, and use them to build your ow...
Author: , Graeme Bowles, Marcus Grongvist, Scott Fernie, Steven Male ISBN: 072772729X / 9780727727299 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Value management (VM) is a structured, team-oriented approach to problem solving that can be applied to the concept, design, construction and on-going management phases of a project. The primary rea...
Author: Graeme Bowles, John Kelly, Marcus Grongvist, Scott Fernie, Steven Male ISBN: 0727727303 / 9780727727305 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Value management (VM) is a structured, team-oriented approach to problem solving that can be applied to the concept, design, construction and on-going management phases of a project. The primary rea...
Author: Andrew Cox ISBN: 0727725998 / 9780727725998 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This book explores the appropriateness of procurement strategies in certain situations. It argues that organisations should develop strategically aligned supply chains to deliver predictable and sus...
Author: Brian Totterdill ISBN: 0727726641 / 9780727726643 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides practical guidance to the new ICE Adjudication Procedure (1997).
It includes a review of the requirements of the Housing Grants and Construction Regeneration Act 1996 and their...
Author: John Bennett, Sarah Jayes ISBN: 0727726900 / 9780727726902 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
This report describes current best practice in partnering in the construction industry and identifies what needs to be done to meet the new demands arising from a rapidly changing market and from ne...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727725696 / 9780727725691 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
Gone are the days when construction companies could rely on repeat business and word of mouth to maintain a healthy business, especially in the aftermath of arguably the worst ever recession in the ...
Author: Jim Smith ISBN: 0727726145 / 9780727726148 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
There are few tasks in surveying that carry more onerous responsibilities than setting out. The financial cost of mistakes can be horrendous and completely out of proportion to the perceived value o...
Author: Peter Morris ISBN: 0727725939 / 9780727725936 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
'This book will undoubtedly become one of the classics of the project management literature...There will be a growing need for project managers who can look beyond the internal processes of their pr...
