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Photogrammetric Survey for the Recording and Documentation of Historic Buildings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Efstratios... Photogrammetric Survey for the Recording and Documentation of Historic Buildings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Efstratios Stylianidis
R4,640 Discovery Miles 46 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides state-of-the-art information on photogrammetry for cultural heritage, exploring the problems and presenting solutions that are applicable under real-world conditions and in various disciplines. Allowing readers to gain a basic understanding of cultural heritage documentation and practical image-based modelling techniques, it focuses on the use of photogrammetry to enhance the documentation of historic buildings in order to reflect the international trends and meet demands of the preservation community. Addressing heritage documentation from various perspectives, the book will appeal students and researchers from engineering backgrounds as well as from the arts and humanities.

Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment (Hardcover): Emmanuel Manu, Julius Akotia Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment (Hardcover)
Emmanuel Manu, Julius Akotia
R3,792 Discovery Miles 37 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The use of secondary data for research can offer benefits, particularly when limited resources are available for conducting research using primary methods. Researchers and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including their academic instructors, are increasingly recognising the immense opportunities in applying secondary research methods in built environment research. Advances in technology has also led to vast amounts of existing datasets that can be utilized for secondary research. This textbook provides a systematic guide on how to apply secondary research methods in the built environment, including their various underpinning methodologies. It provides guidance on the secondary research process, benefits, and drawbacks of applying secondary research methods, how to source for secondary data, ethical considerations, and the various secondary research methods that can be applied in built environment research. The book incorporates chapters dealing with qualitative secondary analysis, systematic literature reviews, legal analysis, bibliometric and scientometric analysis, literature-based discovery, and meta-analysis. Secondary Research Methods in the Built Environment is an ideal research book for undergraduate and postgraduate students in construction management, construction project management, quantity surveying, construction law and dispute resolution, real estate and property management, building services engineering, architecture, and civil engineering.

Leadership in the Construction Industry - Developing Authentic Leaders in a Dynamic World (Hardcover): George Ofori,... Leadership in the Construction Industry - Developing Authentic Leaders in a Dynamic World (Hardcover)
George Ofori, Shamas-ur-Rehman Toor
R3,948 Discovery Miles 39 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a new framework for leadership in the construction industry which draws from the authentic leadership construct. The framework has three major themes: self-leadership, self-transcendent leadership, and sustainable leadership. Despite its significance, leadership has not been given due importance in the construction industry as focus is placed on managerial functionalism. At the project level, even with the technological advances in the industry in recent years, construction is realized in the form of people undertaking distinct interdependent activities which require effective leadership. The industry faces many challenges including: demanding client requirements and project parameters; more stringent regulations, codes and systems; intense competition in the industry; and threats from disruptive enterprise. In such a complex environment, technology-driven and tool-based project and corporate management is insufficient. It must be complemented by a strategic, genuine, stakeholder-focused and ethical leadership. Leadership in the Construction Industry is based on a study on authentic leadership and its development in Singapore. Leadership theories and concepts are reviewed; the importance of leadership in the construction industry is discussed; and the grounded theory approach which was applied in the study is explained. Many eminent construction professionals in Singapore were interviewed in the field study. Emerging from the experiences of the leaders documented in this book are three major themes: (1) self-leadership: how leaders engage in various self-related processes such as self-awareness, self-regulation, and role modeling. (2) self-transcendent leadership: how leaders go beyond leading themselves to leading others through servant leadership, shared leadership, spiritual leadership, and socially-responsible leadership; and, finally, (3) sustainable leadership or the strategies leaders employ to make the impact of their leadership lasting. A synthesis of these themes and their implications for leadership development is presented before the book concludes with some recommendations for current and aspiring leaders about how they can engage with them. This book is essential reading for all construction practitioners from all backgrounds; and researchers on leadership and management in construction.

Construction Economics in the Single European Market (Paperback): B. Drake Construction Economics in the Single European Market (Paperback)
B. Drake
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Construction Economics in the Single European Market is an edited selection of papers from the first European Construction Economics Conference. Experts give details on construction costs from many European countries including Denmark, Ireland, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain and the UK.

Surveying Instruments and Technology (Paperback): Leonid Nadolinets, Eugene Levin, Daulet Akhmedov Surveying Instruments and Technology (Paperback)
Leonid Nadolinets, Eugene Levin, Daulet Akhmedov
R1,893 Discovery Miles 18 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With the advent of GPS/GNSS satellite navigation systems and Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) surveying profession is nowadays facing its transformative stage. Written by a team of surveying experts, Surveyor's Instruments and Technology gives surveying students and practitioners profound understanding of how surveying instruments are designed and operating based on surveying instrument functionality. The book includes the required basic knowledge of accurate measurements of distances and angles from theoretical principles to advanced optical, mechanical, electronic and software components for comparative analysis. Readers are presented with basic elements of UAS systems, practical interpretation techniques, sensor components, and operating platforms. Appropriate for surveying courses at all levels, this guide helps students and practitioners alike to understand what is behind the buttons of surveying instruments of all kinds when considering practical project implementations.

APC Case Book - Casework Illustrations for General Practice Candidates (Paperback): Austen Imber APC Case Book - Casework Illustrations for General Practice Candidates (Paperback)
Austen Imber
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Following his succesful How to Pass the APC: Essential Advice for General Practice Surveyors, Austen Imber's latest publication examines surveyors' work in practice. The case work is based mainly on examples of APC candidates' critical analysis, and is supported by additional guidance on the key issues arising in practice. In a clear, practical way the book covers the public, private and corporate sectors and enables graduates to understand the roles of the various participants in the property industry. Subjects covered include investment valuation, development valuation/appraisal, profits valuation, the Red Book, lettings, sales, rent reviews, lease renewals, estate management, ratings, planning, development, regeneration, compulsory purchase, telecoms and insolvency. The hands-on style of the candidates' critical analysis, clearly shows the detailed reasoning behind the initial strategies and decisions throughout a case. The examples of APC interview questions and tasks for study are invaluable in encouraging graduates to consider further issues - including the many practical problems which graduates need to understand in order to succeed in practice and with their APC interview. Professional ethics are also represented within the cases featured. The APC Casebook is an essential tool in preparing for the final assessment stage of the APC, as well as being an important reference source for candidates throughout their APC training.

Demystifying Land Boundaries Adjacent to Tidal or Navigable Water (Hardcover): BS Flushman Demystifying Land Boundaries Adjacent to Tidal or Navigable Water (Hardcover)
BS Flushman
R3,886 Discovery Miles 38 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A unique, practical guide to watercourse law

This comprehensive guide offers complete, readable explanations of the legal issues and evidence procedures related to the location of the property boundaries of lands adjacent to watercourses.

Beginning with a clear examination of the basics of land title and the legal principles defining property boundary movement, it discusses property boundary determination for a broad range of different watercourse environments–including open ocean coast, estuarine areas, tidal rivers, non-tidal rivers and navigable streams, and navigable lakes. This book will equip readers with:

  • A basic understanding of the land title and boundary system
  • A framework for analyzing disputes about the boundary of property adjacent to a waterbody tailored to the specifics of each type of physical regime
  • Insight to recognize when expert consultation is required to resolve a dispute and how to make the consultation useful and productive
  • Case studies illustrating the actual application of the laws discussed

Because of its extensive information and easy-to-use format, Water Boundaries is the ideal resource for surveyors and lawyers confronted with riparian or littoral property boundary issues.

The Role of the Third Surveyor under the Party Wall Act 1996 - under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 (Hardcover): Victor Vegoda The Role of the Third Surveyor under the Party Wall Act 1996 - under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 (Hardcover)
Victor Vegoda
R5,189 Discovery Miles 51 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is intended to clear any misconceptions about the responsibilities of the third surveyor and outlines the steps taken in choosing a professional for this role, as well as discussing who may carry it out.

Specification Writing 11e - for Architects and  Surveyors (Paperback, 11th Edition): C.J. Willis Specification Writing 11e - for Architects and Surveyors (Paperback, 11th Edition)
C.J. Willis
R1,673 Discovery Miles 16 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a practical tool, by means of checklists, for the building specifier. The new edition will feature changes to specification classifications, following revisions to the Common Arrangement and SMM7, and will include the latest British Standards and Codes of Practice.

Cost Control in Building Design (Paperback): R Flanagan Cost Control in Building Design (Paperback)
R Flanagan
R1,641 Discovery Miles 16 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cost control and cost planning are an integral part of quantity surveying and construction management courses.
This new book on building design uses programmed learning to demonstrate the ideas of cost control and cost planning, from first principles through practice. Worked examples are used throughout the concise and easily accessible text.

Excel for Surveyors (Paperback): Philip Bowcock, Natalie Bayfield Excel for Surveyors (Paperback)
Philip Bowcock, Natalie Bayfield
R1,511 Discovery Miles 15 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an introduction to Microsoft Excel (TM) concentrating on the program's unique application to the work of surveyors. Useful operations such as the creation of valuation tables and automation of conventional valuations are explained with the aid of step by step examples and screen-shots. The setting up of discounted cash flow problems and development appraisals are given special attention, and specific problems posed by over-rented property and leaseholds are also considered, additionally the book includes examples of database and chart functions useful to management and agency surveyors

Lay Analysis - Life Inside the Controversy (Hardcover): Robert S. Wallerstein Lay Analysis - Life Inside the Controversy (Hardcover)
Robert S. Wallerstein
R1,067 Discovery Miles 10 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy chronicles the history of nonmedical analysis in absorbing detail. It begins with the events of 1910 in Europe and America that initiated their divergent attitudes and policies regarding lay analysis, proceeds to the unfolding struggles over this issue on both sides of the Atlantic, and reviews the halting efforts of the APsaA, beginning in the 1950s, to reassess its opposition to lay analysis and make some provision for the training of nonmedical practitioners. Wallerstein's illuminating treatment of the response of American nonphysician therapists to the APsaA's policy - the manner in which they managed to obtain clinical psychoanalytic training despite the APsaA's prohibition - forms a fascinating story within his grand narrative.

The book culminates in a comprehensive review of the lawsuit of March 1985 in which four clinical psychologists, representing a stated class of several thousand colleagues and fully supported by the American Psychological Association, brought suit against the APsaA and IPA, hoping in this way to force a change in the APsaA's policies regarding the training of lay practitioners. Wallerstein, drawing on the voluminous documentation to which he had full access - memoranda, correspondence, depositions, legal briefs, and phone conversations - reviews the three-and-a-half-year history of the lawsuit. He concludes his narrative with a measured and thoughtful assessment of the impact of the settlement on psychoanalysis today: the changes it has brought about within organized psychoanalysis and the meaning of those changes for psychoanalysis as a discipline.
Given Wallerstein's comprehensive scholarship, his admirable even-handedness, and his unique participatory role in the lay analysis controversy over the course of his career, it is unsurprising that Lay Analysis: Life Inside the Controversy should achieve distinction as a major contribution to the institutional history of psychoanalysis.

Water Boundaries (Hardcover): GM Cole Water Boundaries (Hardcover)
GM Cole
R3,300 Discovery Miles 33 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A comprehensive guide to all legal and technical aspects of water boundaries.

"Water Boundaries" is a single-source guide to all critical legal and technical water boundary issues. An indispensable resource for surveyors, political geographers, public land managers, attorneys, developers, real estate professionals, and students in these and other related fields, this book provides: In-depth discussions of the legal issues surrounding all types of water boundariesThe full range of modern methods of precise water boundary locationDetailed technical specifications for mean high water line surveysRelevant algorithms and mathematical formulasIllustrative real-world case studies

Water boundaries are perhaps the oldest and most widely used of man's boundaries. Yet, despite this long history of usage, water boundaries are probably the most frequently and bitterly contested boundaries in today's society. Because shorelines and bodies of water are dynamic rather than static, knotty technical and legal disagreements over water boundaries invariably crop up. Recent land use practices have created a growing demand for precisely located and legally defensible water boundaries. As a consequence, the need for a single-source professional reference such as this has never been greater.

"Water Boundaries" is a comprehensive reference devoted exclusively to this highly specialized area. Written for surveyors and engineers, as well as legal and real estate professionals, it provides in-depth discussions of the legal issues surrounding each type of water boundary while describing the full range of modern methods for precisely locating them.

This volume covers all types of water boundaries, including division lines between private uplands and public submerged lands in both tidal and nontidal waters, lateral division lines between adjacent riparian ownerships, boundaries between state and federal waters, and offshore international boundaries.

For technical specialists, the author provides detailed specifications for mean high water line surveys, as well as all relevant mathematics, including formulas for calculating tidal data and predicting optimum placement of tide gauges, analytical techniques for estimating high water in nontidal bodies of water, and the use of coordinate geometry in constructing equidistant and median lines.

Technical and nontechnical readers alike will appreciate the many illustrative real-world case studies scattered throughout the book.

"Water Boundaries" is an indispensable resource for surveyors, public land managers, attorneys, developers, and real estate professionals, and for all those involved in land planning, offshore mineral extraction, and other related fields.

GARF Assessment Sourcebook (Hardcover, Bantam Mass Mar): Lynelle C. Yingling, William E Miller, Alice L. McDonald, Susan T.... GARF Assessment Sourcebook (Hardcover, Bantam Mass Mar)
Lynelle C. Yingling, William E Miller, Alice L. McDonald, Susan T. Galewaler
R2,874 R1,189 Discovery Miles 11 890 Save R1,685 (59%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days


In the field of marriage and family therapy, the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF) tool can be used to meet the needs of the client, therapist, managed care workers, and contractual payers. It can also provide therapists with assessment data for guiding their clinical work and outcome data for verifying treatment success to outside evaluators. This sourcebook outlines the basic elements of GARF as described in the DSM-IV. These elements include: solving problems and negotiating goals, rules and routines within the practice, organizing roles and responsibilities, and establishing a positive emotional environment for everyone. In order to fulfil these basic elements, the authors provide clinicians with some necessary tools including structural knowledge, process charts, and growth-producing environmental proposals. In the first portion of the book, clinicians will find a quick understanding of the GARF and how it can produce effective outcomes from different treatment approaches. In addition, this sourcebook provides clinicians with a start-up manual to using the GARF in marriage and family therapy. Managed care needs are discussed later in the book and a comparison of major family assessment tools is also included for the experienced clinician.

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The BPG Building Fabric Component Life Manual (Hardcover): Building Performance Group Ltd The BPG Building Fabric Component Life Manual (Hardcover)
Building Performance Group Ltd
R4,502 Discovery Miles 45 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This manual provides a comprehensive source of building component life-span and maintenance data for commercial and industrial building components, following the same format as the ground-breaking HAPM Component Life Manual for domestic buildings. Each building component is allocated its own data sheet on which a number of generic descriptions are provided together with assessed life-spans and maintenance requirements. References to the relevant standards and codes of practice are also included.

Risk, Uncertainty and Decision-Making in Property (Paperback, 2nd edition): P. Byrne Risk, Uncertainty and Decision-Making in Property (Paperback, 2nd edition)
P. Byrne
R2,230 Discovery Miles 22 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Provides undergraduates in surveying and property professionals with a clear practical explanation of the various management techniques to improve their property development decisions.

Construction Economics in the Single European Market (Hardcover): B. Drake Construction Economics in the Single European Market (Hardcover)
B. Drake
R6,335 Discovery Miles 63 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Construction Economics in a Single European Market" is an edited selection of papers from the first European Construction Economics Conference. Experts give details on construction costs from many European countries including Denmark, Ireland, France, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain and the UK. This book should be of interest to quantity surveyors, construction economists, and university and college researchers.

If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter - Dreams and the Reconstruction of Infant Trauma (Hardcover): Lynda Share If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter - Dreams and the Reconstruction of Infant Trauma (Hardcover)
Lynda Share
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Can the newborn infant accurately record traumatic experience? Can early traumas be retained in memory? How would such traumatic memories affect later development? Where should we look for evidence of such traumas in adult patients? If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter provides surprising answers to these questions. Taking as her point of departure both her own clinical experience and case reports in the analytic literature, Lynda Share provides a thorough, at times revelatory, examination of the basic issues. She proposes that the controversy between narrative and historical truth be redefined in terms of the distinctly different memory systems involved and in terms of the special mechanisms whereby trauma, as opposed to ordinary expectable experience, becomes a major unconscious organizer of behavior and memory. Then, winding her way skillfully through contemporary debates about the limits of reconstruction, she argues persuasively that the impact of early infantile trauma can become accessible through disciplined analytic inquiry. Indeed, for Share, to forego the possibility of reconstructing such traumas in favor of an exclusively here-and-now interpretive approach is to risk perpetuating the trauma in all its pathogenicity. By contrast, when trauma can be reexperienced meaningfully in treatment, both behavioral reenactments and trauma-related transference issues can be dramatically clarified. Demonstrating her point with vivid clinical case reports, Share emphasizes the special value of dream interpretation in recovering the full psychological impact of events that occurred in the first few years of life. Through the imagistic dimension of dream formation, unconscious traumaticmemories gain access to an expressive vehicle through which the patient, aided by the analyst's understanding, can begin to work through early experiences that have heretofore been dimly known but not felt. At once a return to the intuitions of the early psychoanalytic pioneers and a foray into the recent insights of developmental psychology, If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter integrates scientific research with contemporary psychoanalytic theory to reclaim an important area of therapeutic intervention. Specifically, Share's framework enables analysts and therapists to realize the clinical imperative of helping patients move beyond the unconscious limits laid down by their earliest histories.

Construction Economics - A New Approach (Paperback, 3rd Edition): Danny Myers Construction Economics - A New Approach (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
Danny Myers
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its new approach specifically examines the problems of securing sustainable construction and this fifth edition broadens the message to address the immediacy of the problems relating to the carbon-based world that we have constructed.

Embracing the whole process of the construction life cycle, the new edition discusses the economic impact of the Covid pandemic on the industry and the broader implications of the promise to build back better. It also includes new coverage of the opportunities offered by technology, the establishment of higher standards to achieve greater energy efficiency and wellbeing, the adoption of the principles of a circular economy, the retrofit of existing buildings and the recycling of materials. New sections also highlight the methodology of the subject to identify the boundaries of construction economics and clarify what to expect and what can be achieved.

As with previous editions, it retains a tried and tested format including:

a clear and user-friendly style

use of colour for emphasis

regular summaries of key points

a glossary of key terms

extensive use of tables, figures and data

readings from Construction Management and Economics

tutorial questions to review each section

research guidance

reviews of useful websites.

This invaluable textbook is essential reading across a wide range of disciplines. It provides the economic context to the relevance of sustainability and debates about climate change, highlighting the vital contributions that surveyors, contractors, project managers, engineers, architects and developers can offer to take it forward.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Fifth Edition

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Basic Concepts

Reading 1

Research Guidance: Introduction

Part A Effective Use of Resources

Chapter 2: Economic Systems for Resource Allocation

Chapter 3: The Market Mechanism

Chapter 4: The Theory of Demand

Chapter 5: The Theory of Supply

Chapter 6: Clients and Contractors

Chapter 7: Costs of the Construction Firm

Chapter 8: Types of Market Structure in the Construction Industry

Reading 2

Reading 3

Research Guidance: Literature Review

Part B Protection and Enhancement of the Environment

Chapter 9: Markets for Green Buildings and Infrastructure

Chapter 10: Market Failure and Government Intervention

Chapter 11: Environmental Economics

Reading 4

Research Guidance: Data Collection

Part C Economic Growth that Meets the Needs of Everyone

Chapter 12: Managing the Macroeconomy

Chapter 13: The Economy and Construction: Measurement and Manipulation

Chapter 14: The Business Case: Inflation and Expectations

Reading 5

Research Guidance: Critical Thinking

Chapter 15: Sustainable Construction

Reading 6

Reading 7

Reading 8

Research Guidance: Triangulation

Glossary

References

Index

House Inspector (Hardcover): Duncan Marshall, Nigel Dann House Inspector (Hardcover)
Duncan Marshall, Nigel Dann
R3,377 Discovery Miles 33 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a concise and comprehensive guide to building defects and building inspection. Whether, as a practitioner you are employed in buying, selling, managing or maintaining houses or whether, or as a layperson, you are buying a property to invest or live in, this book will help you make sound decisions and avoid costly mistakes. Written by two highly experienced authors, House Inspector is a general and accessible book which describes how and why house construction has changed, identifies some of the more common defects, and provides a series of elemental check lists. Essential reading for trainees and general practice surveyors, maintenance inspectors, housing managers, estate agents, planners, and even private purchasers and investors. This book will improve your knowledge and understanding of potential problems and provide a simple framework for a competent building inspection.

Engineering Surveying Technology (Paperback, New edition): T.J.M. Kennie Engineering Surveying Technology (Paperback, New edition)
T.J.M. Kennie
R5,510 Discovery Miles 55 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the major changes in the technology now used for the measurement and processing of topographic and non-topographic spatial data, with emphasis on the new and emerging technology and its applications. Fundamental principles are introduced to explain the basic operation of different types of equipment. The book provides comprehensive coverage of modern surveying technology giving a full understanding of the rapid technological developments.

Practical Building Forms and Agreements (Hardcover): Andrew Pike, A. Pike Practical Building Forms and Agreements (Hardcover)
Andrew Pike, A. Pike
R5,224 Discovery Miles 52 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An employer embarking upon a building project will inevitably have to enter into a number of complex contracts. There are published institutional standard forms for these purposes, but usually they will need to be amended in one way or another. The aim of this book is to help employers and their advisers (especially their Quantity Surveyors) in drawing up all the contracts required on a normal UK building project. The forms included in this book are a co-ordinated attack upon the task of legal documentation for building projects, and they are based upon, and incorporate by reference, the relevant published standard forms. The emphasis throughout is upon practicality. The forms are intended to achieve a good and reasonable deal for the employer, not a theoretical perfection which would be unachievable and non-negotiable in practice. This book should be of interest to quantity surveyors; construction managers; and solicitors specializing in construction law.

Guide to Home Improvement Costs (Hardcover): Bryan Spain Guide to Home Improvement Costs (Hardcover)
Bryan Spain
R3,502 Discovery Miles 35 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Extending your home? New kitchen or bathroom? Planning to decorate? If you're taking on a job like this you need to know three things - can you do it on your own; how long is going to take; and most important of all, how much is it going to cost.This book tells you the answers. With simple-to-follow guidance on all your home improvement projects it tells you: the time the job will take the costs of the materials how difficult it's going to be and what a professional is going to charge to do it for you

CESMM 3 Explained (Hardcover): Bryan Spain CESMM 3 Explained (Hardcover)
Bryan Spain
R12,160 Discovery Miles 121 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A guide to the use of the new Civil Engineering Standard Methods of Measurements, this also includes a listing of alternative methods of measurement where circumstances require it. General information on measurement is included but the core of the book lies in its coverage of all the sections in the Standard, including explanations of the measurement corrections, drawings and model take-offs (with notes), model bills (with abstracts if needed) and a standard library of descriptions.

Value Management in Design and Construction (Paperback): John Kelly, Steven Male Value Management in Design and Construction (Paperback)
John Kelly, Steven Male
R1,518 Discovery Miles 15 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Value management (VM), first developed in the USA, is now a growing service in the UK construction industry as well as developing rapidly on mainland Europe. The quantity surveying profession has recently targeted it as one of its key services for development over the next decade. This guide describes VM in design and construction and suggests a method for implementation. The philosophy, tools and techniques of VM are highlighted and a critical appraisal is given of how it has been implemented in the North American construction industry. VM and cost management are differentiated, showing how these distinct services provide a powerful and integrated approach to the economic management of projects - especially during design evolution. The authors bring insights from six years of research into VM in North America, the UK and mainland Europe. The book provides an in-depth exploration of functional analysis, presents a series of North American case studies of projects, approaches to the implementation of VM, and a successful VM consultancy firm. A significant aspect of the book is a number of tools and techniques for costing. It concludes by presenting the authors' approach to the pract

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