| Description |
xxiv, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Getting it right at the start / Rick Best and Gerard de Valence -- 2. Value in building / Rick Best and Gerard de Valence -- 3. Project initiation / Gerard de Valence -- 4. Procurement strategies / Gerard de Valence and Nathan Huon -- 5. Planning for conflict / Martin Loosemore -- 6. Environmental impact assessment / Alan Gilpin -- 7. Environmental planning / Margaret Durham -- 8. The capital cost fallacy / Craig Langston -- 9. Feasibility studies / Tony Collins -- 10. Cost or benefit? / Grace Ding -- 11. Functional use analysis / Peter Smith -- 12. Cost modelling / Allan Ashworth -- 13. Facility quality and performance / Stephen Ballesty -- 14. Energy modelling / Paul Strachan, Jon Hand and Drury Crawley -- 15. Value management / Mark Neasbey, Roy Barton and John Knott -- 16. Risk management / L. Y. Shen -- 17. Procurement law / John Twyford -- 18. Information and information management / John Mitchell and Roger Miller -- 19. Integrated design / Rick Best -- 20. Occupancy cost analysis / Peter Smith -- 21. Technology and innovation / Marton Marosszeky -- 22. Dispute resolution / John Twyford -- 23. The way forward / Gerard de Valence and Rick Best |
| Summary |
This book brings together experts to outline a range of tools, techniques and procedures which can and should be used to make the building procurement phase as efficient as possible and to ensure that future problems in the design and construction of the building are anticipated |
| Notes |
Copublished by Wiley, New York |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Value analysis (Cost control)
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Construction industry -- Management.
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Project management.
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| Author |
Best, Rick.
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De Valence, Gerard.
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| LC no. |
00002006 |
| ISBN |
0340741600 paperback |
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0470355662 Wiley (US |
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