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Infrastructure for the built environment : global procurement strategies / Rodney Howes and Herbert Robinson.

By: Howes, R. (Rodney).
Contributor(s): Robinson, Herbert.
Publisher: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005Description: xxii,327 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0750668709 (pbk.) :; 9780750668705.Subject(s): Infrastructure (Economics) -- Management | Construction industry -- Capital investments | Public works -- Finance | Technology | Surveying, quantity surveying | Building construction & materialsDDC classification: 624.0681 HOW Summary: Throughout the world, there is a growing demand for high-quality public services to support socio-economic development. This book looks at the strategic approach for planning infrastructure provision, looking in particular at the key areas of sustainability and safety.
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Throughout the world there is a growing demand for high quality public services to support socio-economic development. Infrastructure is central to improving the level of public services and the quality of the built environment. But in key areas such as transport, energy, water, healthcare, education and communications, public resources are not sufficient to keep pace with this demand. As the public sector struggles to keep up, the private sector is increasingly involved in the procurement of economic and social infrastructure.Until now procurement strategies have often concentrated on the mechanisms and the 'bricks and mortar' without a thorough analysis of the processes and their implications for services. The result is that all too often infrastructure projects are implemented in an ad hoc and fragmented way. In this ground-breaking book, Rodney Howes and Herbert Robinson provide a holistic approach to infrastructure provision that facilitates infrastructure delivery aimed at continuously improving the level and quality of services. Critical issues of policy and strategy, implementation, and operational aspects are examined within the context of sustainability.By emphasising the importance of procuring infrastructure within an overall national or regional development policy and strategy, the authors have demonstrated the importance of linking investment and resource decisions to local social, economic and environmental needs. With each chapter carefully written to reflect part of the infrastructure delivery chain and illustrated with practical examples and case studies from around the world, this book offers a new blueprint for infrastructure investment and resource management.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Throughout the world, there is a growing demand for high-quality public services to support socio-economic development. This book looks at the strategic approach for planning infrastructure provision, looking in particular at the key areas of sustainability and safety.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of case studies (p. ix)
  • List of figures (p. xi)
  • List of tables (p. xv)
  • List of graphs (p. xv)
  • Acknowledgement (p. xvii)
  • Foreword (p. xxi)
  • 1 Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part 1 Policy & strategic context (p. 11)
  • 2 The nature of infrastructure projects (p. 13)
  • Introduction (p. 13)
  • Concept of 'infrastructure' (p. 14)
  • Types of physical infrastructure (p. 16)
  • Infrastructure development (p. 17)
  • Toward a service-focused approach (p. 25)
  • Case studies (p. 26)
  • Summary (p. 30)
  • References (p. 30)
  • 3 Determination and selection of infrastructure policy (p. 32)
  • Introduction (p. 32)
  • The policy framework (p. 33)
  • Determinants of public and private participation (p. 40)
  • Case studies (p. 47)
  • Summary (p. 49)
  • References (p. 50)
  • 4 Strategic considerations for infrastructure development (p. 52)
  • Introduction (p. 52)
  • Key elements of infrastructure strategy (p. 53)
  • Infrastructure development processes (p. 58)
  • Infrastructure service delivery chain (p. 62)
  • Infrastructure decision-making hierarchy (p. 65)
  • Level of service indicators (p. 67)
  • Demand and supply management issues (p. 68)
  • Strategic hard and soft variables (p. 69)
  • Case studies (p. 70)
  • Summary (p. 74)
  • References (p. 75)
  • Part 2 Implementation issues (p. 77)
  • 5 Project evaluation and resources (p. 79)
  • Introduction (p. 79)
  • Macro or key contextual variables (p. 80)
  • Micro or project-specific variables (p. 84)
  • Resource implications of infrastructure projects (p. 87)
  • Infrastructure evaluation models (p. 92)
  • The InfORMED approach (p. 94)
  • Case studies (p. 103)
  • Summary (p. 107)
  • References (p. 107)
  • 6 Infrastructure project procurement (p. 110)
  • Introduction (p. 110)
  • Elements of infrastructure procurement strategy (p. 112)
  • Project evaluation (p. 117)
  • Drivers for infrastructure procurement selection (p. 118)
  • Framework for procurement delivery (p. 119)
  • Procurement methods (p. 121)
  • Other procurement considerations (p. 126)
  • Innovative procurement options (p. 127)
  • Infrastructure procurement selection using a portfolio-based strategy (p. 130)
  • Procurement of infrastructure in developing countries (p. 132)
  • Selection of bidders (p. 137)
  • Information provided for the bidders (p. 139)
  • Evaluation of bids (p. 139)
  • Case studies (p. 140)
  • Summary (p. 142)
  • References (p. 143)
  • 7 The financing of infrastructure projects (p. 145)
  • Introduction (p. 145)
  • Financing policy and strategy (p. 146)
  • Public provision of infrastructure finance (p. 148)
  • Private provision of infrastructure finance (p. 150)
  • Public-private partnerships (PPP) (p. 152)
  • Project financial analysis (p. 153)
  • Using uncertainty to determine NPVs (p. 160)
  • Project risk analysis (p. 162)
  • Inflation (p. 165)
  • Cost of borrowing (p. 167)
  • Stochastic decision trees (p. 168)
  • Risk assessment using Monte-Carlo simulation (p. 172)
  • Financial appraisal of bidders (p. 176)
  • Project financial monitoring and control (p. 178)
  • Case studies (p. 182)
  • Summary (p. 184)
  • References (p. 185)
  • 8 Funding infrastructure projects in developing countries (p. 186)
  • Introduction (p. 186)
  • The need for funding infrastructure (p. 187)
  • Bilateral and multilateral funding (p. 188)
  • Private sector funding (p. 196)
  • Co-financing infrastructure (p. 199)
  • Conflicting issues in co-financing (p. 202)
  • Lending conditions and sector priorities (p. 202)
  • Project appraisal (p. 204)
  • Cost-sharing and foreign currency constraints (p. 205)
  • Cross default and other conditional clauses (p. 206)
  • Other funding considerations (p. 206)
  • Project identification capacity (p. 206)
  • Risk analysis and management (p. 208)
  • Case studies (p. 209)
  • Summary (p. 214)
  • References (p. 216)
  • Part 3 Operational considerations (p. 219)
  • 9 Towards sustainable infrastructure and conservation (p. 221)
  • Introduction (p. 221)
  • Definition of sustainable development (p. 223)
  • Models of sustainable development (p. 223)
  • Why sustainable design and construction? (p. 225)
  • Strategy for sustainability and conservation (p. 226)
  • Operational considerations for sustainability and conservation (p. 229)
  • Climate change and global warming (p. 229)
  • Towards a low-carbon economy (p. 231)
  • Zoning of land (p. 232)
  • Impact of physical infrastructure (p. 232)
  • Assessment methodologies (p. 239)
  • Environmental or thematic indicators (p. 239)
  • Environmental impact assessment (energy) (p. 241)
  • Assessment for building-type infrastructure (p. 243)
  • Justification of sustainable construction (p. 245)
  • Case studies (p. 246)
  • Summary (p. 250)
  • References (p. 251)
  • 10 Facility management of infrastructure (p. 253)
  • Introduction (p. 253)
  • Operational context (p. 254)
  • Performance indicators (p. 258)
  • Design quality indicators (p. 259)
  • Facility management framework (p. 260)
  • Statutes and legal requirements (p. 265)
  • Life cycle appraisal (LCA) (p. 268)
  • Life cycle appraisal (LCA) for PPP projects (p. 270)
  • Proposed basis for an FM visualisation model (p. 272)
  • Operational facilities management (p. 275)
  • Role of the client (p. 276)
  • Packaging and outsourcing contracts (p. 277)
  • Service level and contractual arrangements (p. 278)
  • Facilities condition management system (p. 281)
  • Financial management and cost control (p. 281)
  • Application of facilities management to PPP (p. 282)
  • Case studies (p. 284)
  • Summary (p. 286)
  • References (p. 287)
  • 11 Conclusion and future horizons (p. 289)
  • Introduction (p. 289)
  • Physical infrastructure policy framework (p. 290)
  • Developing strategy (p. 292)
  • A total approach to the provision of physical infrastructure (p. 293)
  • Sustainable infrastructure (p. 296)
  • The concept of service delivery (p. 303)
  • Innovation in project finance (p. 305)
  • Risk management of infrastructure projects (p. 309)
  • Summary (p. 310)
  • References (p. 312)
  • Appendix Tables (p. 313)
  • Index (p. 323)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rodney Howes, Herbert Robipson