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.

The construction industry is subject to more risk and uncertainty than perhaps any other industry. Yet, surprisingly, managerial techniques used to identify, analyse and respond to risk were not applied in the industry until the 80's. Existing texts deal with the theoretical concepts of risk and the techniques that identify and manage it. This book provides a set of tools that enable these management techniques to be put into practice in the construction industry.

This workbook supports scholarly role playing in the arena of global diplomacy and human system planning. Audiences include students, faith-based groups, and community members who like to grapple with the big picture -- arguably the biggest picture -- of our times: global sustainability. The modular 4 or 5 week course can be extended as different groups might choose. Audiences will collaborate with others by authentically engaging the world's complexity through participatory democracy. This experiential learning opportunity has the power to change lives, and the promise to save the planet. The exploration begins with the challenges faced by the founders of the Club of Rome circa 1970. The founding prospectus identified the problematique underlying global sustainability as a set of 49 continuous critical problems. These interacting and entangled problems create what more recently has been called a wicked mess. They are not solvable in isolation because fixing one of them will likely further complicate others. Considering the full set of problems causes individuals to feel overwhelmed. For that reason, the structured dialogic design divides the challenge of understanding the problem up among members of the group, and then has them interact as a community of "experts" in their assigned problem areas. In a step wise process, this group of experts sequentially clarifies meanings, explores similarities among ideas, and identifies relationships between ideas. In this fashion, the group avoids becoming trapped in a reductionist approach to problem solving and enters into a communal understanding of the complex situation. Readers who wish to participate in an exploration of the problematique underlying global sustainability are invited to join a group through the Institute for 21st Century Agoras. In addition to the book itself, readers will be provided access to a software tool for tracking meanings that are uncovered, prompting decisions during deliberation, and then also presenting outcomes of those decisions as an easily read "tree." A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures builds capacities for understanding and resolving highly complex problems in collaboration. It is a "self help" workbook for communities sensing urgency for starting today to build their futures. The authors, Drs. Tom Flanagan and Ken Bausch, are systems scientists who each have over 20 years of experience in complex systems work. The inspiration for the workbook comes from their collaborative online teaching with Janet McIntyre and her students at Flinders University in Australia.

Did you ever stop to consider how magical, mystical, and genuinely spiritual the practice of dialogue can be? Not debate, of course. Debate is a win-lose contest, and it draws circles around winners and losers which divide us and foster ill will. I am speaking about the type of conversations - reflective deliberations - that we share with others in a circle of trust. Body Wisdom in Dialogue is a guide book for understanding the feelings that enable and sustain heartfelt discussions. Collective conversation is an ancient art which has been sustained within tribal cultures. For this reason, the book opens with a preface from the Americans for Indian Opportunities providing a view into the sacred dialogues of indigenous democracy. The first chapter reflects on the experience of thinking as individuals - which is a prelude to the phenomenon of thinking in groups. The same conditions that are needed for us to sort out complex understandings alone are needed as we sort out complex understandings together. The second chapter provides a brief history of the concept of body wisdom. The reductionist tradition of Western metaphysics comes under fire, in an honest and respectful fashion. And history comes full circle as Western sciences evolve the recognized need to once again engage complexity through inclusive community. A third chapter launches a reflective look at how we feel our way through moments of thought. When we recognize that philosophical mathematicians no less than Albert Einstein embraced this experience, we can find it easier to make peace with feelings which might seem to work against logic. Our feelings enliven our logic - challenging it for the purpose of making it more coherent - and in this sense our emotional presence is the basis for our creativity, understandings, and self discovery - our deep beliefs, our mysticism and our faith. The fourth chapter speaks to the need and the mechanism for linking body wisdom (our emotional presence) with cognitive wisdom (our constructed understandings) through dialogue. A case is made that collective reflection links us at deep levels. Dialogue allows us to democratize deeply held feelings. Collective consciousness is introduced in the fifth chapter. Conscious thinking includes learning and also remembering what is learned. Some of what we have learned is carried within us as individuals, some of what we have learned is carried among us as stories, and some takes expression in the world around us. The process is sometimes rushed. Much that mankind has done in the world has left voices out of the discussion. Inclusive dialogues - which raise collective consciousness into collective action - must move at a pace that allows the group's collective body wisdom to connect with its collective cognitive wisdom. Specific examples are provided in this chapter. The sixth chapter reaches back to antiquity to connect with a myth from the classical Greek era - the contest constructed by Aphrodite (representing prevailing power and wisdom) for Psyche (representing an emerging presence) in determining a romantic outcome (representing, we propose, the future of man). Psyche's ordeal is a metaphor for the ordeal that we face when we are engaged in inclusive, complex dialogue. A final chapter provides a glimpse of ways that large groups can fuse body wisdom with cognitive wisdom. Dialogue can leave participants with an enduring feeling that they have participated in a sacred event - that they have summoned the sublime presence of a collective wisdom. The authors do try to walk this line lightly; however, Body Wisdom in Dialogue does not side step the need for an appropriate approach to dialogue for dealing with our most pressing civic situations. Body Wisdom in Dialogue: Rediscovering the Voice of the Goddess is the second AGORAS publication by Thomas Flanagan and Ken Bausch. It follows last year's book A Democratic Approach to Sustainable Futures.

The fifth edition of this landmark volume has been substantially updated and expanded to encompass an abundance of innovative rehabilitation research supported by changing technology and new research methodologies. Written for rehabilitation practitioners, researchers, and students, it distills crucial new information regarding aspects of disability pertaining to medical conditions commonly encountered in rehabilitation settings. The fifth edition addresses new topics at the forefront of medical rehabilitation and disability from clinical, functional, and psychological perspectives, including traumatic brain injury, stroke and spinal cord injury, limb deficiency, organ transplantation, geriatric rehabilitation, and new and technology-based rehabilitation research.The book delivers new findings about social work in physical medicine, complementary and alternative treatments, trends in treatment delivery and payment systems, relevant legislation, and telerehabilitation. New chapter authors noted authorities in their fields address rheumatic diseases, stroke, rehabilitation nursing, research directions, and integrative medicine, among other topics. The text continues to be the only guide to medical aspects of disability for non-physician rehabilitation professionals and other health care providers outside of rehabilitation medicine. It serves as a comprehensive guide on what to expect and how to manage each medical issue, causative agents, classification, pain management, psychological factors, and more. Also included are plentiful case studies, discussion questions, and a robust instructor package. New to the Fifth Edition: Updated coverage of rheumatic diseases, stroke, rehabilitation nursing, research directions, and integrative medicine New information about traumatic brain injury, limb deficiency, organ transplantation, geriatric rehabilitation, and Technology-based research Innovations in delivery and payment systems, accreditation, opportunities and challenges for quality, and outcome assessments New findings regarding social work in physical medicine, complementary and alternative medicine, relevant legislation, and telerehabilitation Updates on speech, language, hearing, and swallowing disorders New coverage of neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and pediatric disorders Key Features: Delivers key information critical to the study of disability including functional status, prognosis, psychology, and vocational issues Discusses how changes in health care regulations have impacted rehabilitation medicine delivery Analyzes the convergence of emerging technologies and clinical practice Includes the contributions of distinguished practitioners, researchers, and educators Provides a robust Instructor's Manual