Construction Cost Management: Learning from Case Studies

✍ Scribed by Keith Potts

Publisher: Spon Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 321
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

On time and in budget.

As a construction project manager achieving this, while maintaining quality, is the most valuable package you can offer your clients. Of course, its value derives largely from it's difficulty вЂ“ if it were easy to complete jobs entirely to plan then it would happen rather more often.

Using a combination of worked examples and case studies, this book examines how projects go over-cost, what lessons can be learned from past examples and what approaches have successfully been employed. Example case studies include:

The Scottish Parliament

Wembley Stadium

Heathrow Terminal 5.

If you're studying Surveying or Construction Management, or starting out as a Construction Cost Manager and need to plan or assess construction projects then this is the book for you.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 14
Part I Introduction......Page 16
1 Introduction and overview......Page 18
2 Reports and recommendations......Page 29
Part II Management of the pre-contract stage......Page 42
3 Selecting the consultants and contractors......Page 44
4 Pre-contract cost management......Page 61
5 Cost management on PFI projects......Page 74
6 Contractor’s estimating and tendering......Page 90
Part III Key tools and techniques......Page 104
7 Value management......Page 106
8 Risk management (RM)......Page 120
9 Whole-life costing......Page 137
Part IV Procurement strategies......Page 148
10 Organizational methods (part A)......Page 150
11 Organizational methods (part B)......Page 172
12 Payment systems and contract administration......Page 193
Part V Management of the post-contract stage......Page 210
13 Contractors’ cost-control and monitoring procedures......Page 212
14 Change management – valuing variations......Page 226
15 Claims management......Page 242
Part VI Contracts and case study......Page 260
16 The NEC Engineering and Construction Contract......Page 262
17 FIDIC standard forms of international construction contract......Page 273
18 Case study: Heathrow Terminal 5......Page 296
Table of cases......Page 308
Index......Page 310

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