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Value and risk management a guide to best practice

By: Language: English Publication details: Oxford Blackwell 2006Description: xix, 380p. figures, tables. 25cmISBN:
  • 140512069X
  • 9781405120692
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 658.404 $2 22
Partial contents:
Key features and benefits -- Essential attributes -- Principles of risk management -- Integrating value and risk management -- The people and their roles -- 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 -- Appendices.
Summary: Describes the underlying concepts of value and risk management and their interrelationship and the different issues to be addressed throughout the life of the projects from inception to use. Outlines practical ways for handling people and organisations with different interests and commonly used and effective techniques. Explores value and risk management in sectors outside construction and the relationships between value and risk and the benefits of integrating the management of both. Case studies. Bibliography and glossarySummary: Published in conjunction with the Chartered Institute of Building.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book London Books 658.404 DAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30073011
Book London Books 658.404 DAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 30073012

Key features and benefits -- Essential attributes -- Principles of risk management -- Integrating value and risk management -- The people and their roles -- 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 -- Appendices.

Describes the underlying concepts of value and risk management and their interrelationship and the different issues to be addressed throughout the life of the projects from inception to use. Outlines practical ways for handling people and organisations with different interests and commonly used and effective techniques. Explores value and risk management in sectors outside construction and the relationships between value and risk and the benefits of integrating the management of both. Case studies. Bibliography and glossary

Published in conjunction with the Chartered Institute of Building.