Books in the Cost Engineering series

Outlining the responsibility of the venture manager in project selection, this title contains chapters with emphasis on choosing the correct project, defining project goals, adequate front end loading (FEL). It provides case studies and examples on technical evaluation criteria, construction progress monitoring, and offshore estimating.

Incorporates discussions of international project considerations, project risk analysis and contingency, ethical considerations, and the effect of the Internet on project and cost engineering work. This work examines the increased reliance on software by project and cost engineers.

Presents instructions on what to do to manage multiple small projects - using limited resources - in any industry. This work covers methods that address the needs of the non-specialist project manager, and are suitable for professionals who coordinate multiple projects of various kinds.

Presenting a sequence of steps for matching cost engineering needs with helpful computer tools, this reference addresses the issues of project complexity and uncertainty; cost estimation, scheduling, and cost control; cost and result uncertainty; and, engineering and general purpose software.

This book is intended as an introduction to printed circuit board manufacturing processes and terminology for readers who have no exposure to them. It provides techniques and approaches to estimating that should prove useful to all who participate in the estimating process.

Highlights advantages, disadvantages, and future trends of computerization to project control activity. Stresses identification of when computerization is needed and explores how to convert. Covers fundamentals of project control theory, software technology, and labor and cost analysis. Includes glo

Examines the important techniques for analyzing the profitability of capital investments. This book discusses time value mechanics and financial concepts, including discounted cash flow, return on investment, incremental analysis, cash flow tables, income taxes, depreciation, cost of capital and risk analysis.

Covers cost engineering, emphasizing capital projects and focusing on both estimating and cost control. This title furnishes a fresh and cost-effective approach to estimating and controlling contingency, a chapter on systems and computer applications and on bulk material control, and coverage of the factors that affect estimate accuracy.

Bridges the gap between the quantitative viewpoint of management science and the practical needs of project cost management. This text covers an integrated cost management programme. It presents the use of method study techniques to increase the effectiveness of procedures and improve the productivity of resources.