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Estimating building costs for the residential & light commercial construction professional
Completely revised, updated, and reorganized to conform to Masterformat 2010, this new edition provides a step-by-step guide to estimating building costs for contractors. A series of questions at the end of each chapter helps the reader summarize the content. In addition, the chapter on computer estimating has been expanded to cover the new estimating software for performing quantity takeoff by computer, and content covering the procedures for conceptual estimating as well as parametric estimating has been added.
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Whole life-cycle costing
Whole life-cycle costing (WLCC) is rapidly becoming the standard method for the long-term cost appraisal of buildings and civil infrastructure projects. With clients now demanding buildings that demonstrate value for money over the long term, WLCC has become an essential tool for those involved in the design, construction, operation and risk analysis of construction projects. Whole-life costing: risk and risk responses offers a thorough grounding in both the theory and practical application of WLCC. Part I deals with the fundamentals, providing the general background to appreciate WLCC concept.
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Risk pricing strategies for public-private partnership projects
\"This book sets out the key principle strategies involved in risk pricing of PPP projects in a clear and accessible way and provides the reader with fundamental principles of risk pricing theories and enveloping processes\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Risk pricing strategies for public-private partnership projects
\"The book provides up-to-date coverage of the latest developments in risk pricing strategies and presents a comprehensive treatment of the methodologies involved in designing and building risk pricing models.The author explains how public-private partnership project risk is priced and appreciated by means of the correct application of innovative risk modelling techniques, where the emphasis is risk pricing strategies as well as price evaluation methods. Risk pricing is covered as an integral part of the PPP projects procurement process - from the perspectives of both private and public stakeholders.This book sets out the key principle strategies involved in risk pricing of PPP projects in a clear and accessible way and provides the reader with fundamental principles of risk pricing theories and enveloping processes. Each chapter treats specific aspects of risk in PPP projects, including: PPP process map Project risk management strategies Project risk measurement and modelling Strategies for risk pricing Risk pricing at each of the project life cycle stages Pricing project finance risks The first two aspects provide the required background knowledge with which to conceptualise the main elements of risk management in the context of PPP procurement systems. Project risk measurement in then introduced with modelling methods that might be applicable in the process of risk pricing PPP projects. This is followed by a comprehensive introduction to an innovative framework for risk pricing of PPP projects. Finally, the book addressed risk pricing at each stage of PPP projects development and operation.A thematic structure is used, dealing with all the important risk pricing issues, and relevant real-world situations are analysed through case study examples\"--
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Measurement using the new rules of measurement
The RICS New Rules of Measurement mean that the construction industry now has a way of allowing a more consistent approach to the measurement and estimating of buildings from the start of a project, right through until the end, and beyond.
Measurement using the New Rules of Measurement offers comprehensive guidance on all the technical competencies concerned with measurement throughout the precontract stages and provides a full commentary to the NRM, with detailed and comprehensive examples of how to measure in accordance with this new prescriptive approach.
For both students and practitioners, the acquisition of technical competencies is by practice so this book offers step-by-step worked examples to follow as well as an exercise on each topic.
* helps dispel anxieties about using a new method in an important area of fee generation
* based on the author's successful Roadshows, organised by the RICS to promote the NRM
* companion websites provide support for learning: http://ostrowskiquantities.com [http://ostrowskiquantities.com/] and www.wiley.com/go/ostrowski/measurement [http://www.wiley.com/go/ostrowski/measurement]
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Constructions
The current trend for constructing experimental structures is now an international phenomenon. It has been taken up worldwide by design professionals, researchers, educators and students alike. There exist, however, distinct and significant tendencies within this development that require further investigation. This issue of AD takes on this task by examining one of the most promising trajectories in this area, the rise of intensely local architectures. In his seminal essay of 1983, Kenneth Frampton redefined Critical Regionalism by calling for an intensely local approach to architectural design. Today, Frampton's legacy is regaining relevance for a specific body of work in practice and education focused on the construction of experimental structures. Could this ultimately provide the seeds for a compelling and alternative approach to sustainable design?
Contributors include: Barbara Ascher, Peter Buchanan, Karl Otto Ellefsen, David Jolly Monge, Lisbet Harboe, David Leatherbarrow, Areti Markopoulou, Philip Nobel, Rodrigo Rubio, Søren S Sørensen, Defne Sunguroðlu Hensel.
Featured practices: Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Rintala Eggertsson, SHoP, Studio Mumbai, TYIN tegnestue.
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