Value and risk management : a guide to best practice / Michael Dallas.
By: Dallas, Michael
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BookPublisher: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006Description: xix, 380 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 140512069X; 9781405120692.Subject(s): Construction industry -- Risk management | Value analysis (Cost control) | Project management | Risk management | Construction industry | Business and Management | Civil engineering, surveying & building | Management & management techniques | Building construction & materialsDDC classification: 658.404 | 624.029 DAL | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Published on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Building and endorsed by a range of construction industry institutes, this book explains the underlying concepts of value and risk, and how they relate to one another. It describes the different issues to be addressed in a variety of circumstances and at all stages of a project's life and reviews a number of commonly used and effective techniques, showing how these may be adapted to suit individuals' styles and circumstances.
* Published on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Building with cross-industry institutional support
* Combines value and risk management which are often considered, wrongly, in isolation
* Makes a complicated subject accessible to a wide audience of construction practitioners
* Features checklists and proformas to aid implementation of best practice
* Author has extensive practical experience of the subject
Bibliography: (pages 362-364) and index.
Key features and benefits -- Principles of value management -- Principles of risk management -- An integrated approach to value and risk management -- People -- Concept, standards and qualifications -- Learning from others -- Study types -- Techniques for value and risk -- Value management techniques -- Risk management techniques -- Toolbox - checklists, forms and tables.
Explaining the concepts of value & risk, & how they relate to one another, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to professionals involved in construction & students on civil engineering courses.
Donated to CIT by William Deasy.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Fundamentals
- Opportunities throughout life of project
- Human Dynamics
- Culture
- Setting up a corporate programme
- Techniques
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Michael Dallas grew up on a farm in Sussex in the period of post war austerity in the 1950s. He was educated at Sherborne School and Cambridge University, gaining degrees in Natural Sciences and Chemical Engineering. This background gave him a very practical view on life, appreciating value, abhorring waste, needing to innovate and manage day to day risk. His career has involved building Dams, Pipelines and Water Treatment Works, manufacturing fibre reinforced concrete products and extensive Project Management. In the late 1980s he first encountered Value Engineering and quickly recognised its potential to address many of the key issues of successful project management and its close relationship with Managing Risk.