Major Infrastructure Projects: Planning for Delivery

ISBN-13: 9781137515858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 364 str.

Edward Ochieng; Andrew Price; David Moore

Opis

Infrastructure development and maintenance is vital for a country's economy but the delivery of projects is becoming ever more challenging because of the economic and legislative environment. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the management of infrastructure projects, from project appraisal to supply chain to implementing practices. The authors incorporate contemporary approaches to project management and provide more linkage between techniques, risk, agile approaches and integrated supply chains, making this a comprehensive reference for students on infrastructure focussed project management modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Background to the importance of Critical Infrastructure Stage I: PROJECT APPRAISAL Chapter 2: Transforming Policy into Practice: Implementation project plan on major infrastructure projects Chapter 3: Capital and operational effectiveness: Past experiences and recent developments Chapter 4: Goal setting and performance measurement Chapter 5: Investment appraisal for sustainable value creation on major infrastructure projects Chapter 6: Social Return on Infrastructure Investments (SROI) Stage II: MAXIMISING INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAINS Chapter 7: Stakeholder engagement on major infrastructure projects Chapter 8: Maximising integrated supply chains on major infrastructure projects Chapter 9: Procurement and contract strategy on major infrastructure projects Chapter 10: Integrating governance and ethics on major infrastructure projects Chapter 11: Managing unpredictability and vulnerability Stage III: IMPLEMENTING VALUE ENHANCING PRACTICES Chapter 12: Implementing value enhancing practices on major infrastructure projects Chapter 13: Applying agile approach on major infrastructure projects Chapter 14: Achieving operational effectiveness on major infrastructure projects Chapter 15: Planning for implementation with science based techniques on major infrastructure projects-sensors-way forward Chapter 16: Conclusion: Delivering capital effectiveness on major infrastructure Projects.

O autorze

Edward Ochieng: PhD, PGCertHELT, MSc, BSc (Hons), FHEA is a Senior Lecturer in Programme and Project Management at Cranfield University, United Kingdom. Edward has a PhD from Loughborough University. Edward’s research is focused on heavy engineering project management. He has extensive experience and knowledge relating to organisational challenges and solution development for managing large capital and heavy engineering projects. His research interest with people and organisational challenges continues, but has now been complemented by the need for wider understanding of infrastructure systems, project productivity, project value creation, operational effectiveness, capital effectiveness, science-based project management, energy and economy and corporate social responsibility in projects. 

Andrew Price: DSc, PhD, BSc (Civil Eng), FCIOB, FICE, CEng is a Professor of Project Management at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. Andrew has over 30 years’ design, construction and industry-focused research experience including several large collaborative research projects and centres. Andrew has contributed to the development and leadership of five major research centres/consortia (HaCIRIC, IMCRC, CICE, ECI and the Sustainable Urban Environments: Models Metric and Tools Consortium (SUE MoT)). Andrew has been PI/Co-I on 44 collaborative research projects worth over £13.1 million, including HaCIRIC’s research projects that impacted on the provision of timely and effective unscheduled care through three main strands: unscheduled care as a complex system (two projects on stroke care innovation); ED Design (two projects: Open planning for operationally ready acute healthcare infrastructure; and Activity-Acuity-Adaptability-Flow in EDs); and resilience of healthcare infrastructure. 

David Moore: PhD, BSc (Hons), Dip LT, MCIOB: is a Reader in Project Management at Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom. David has been involved in funded research examining the behaviours of superior performing project managers, and which was rated as tending to international significance by ESPRC. His research activity covers areas ranging from buildability, through sustainable design and the use of solar technologies, to perception and cognition in a construction industry context. 

Blurb

Managing, developing and investing in crucial infrastructure is essential to keep up with the challenges of a fast-paced and globalised world, but effecting  and overseeing change requires a deep understanding of complex interlocking systems.

In this unique and comprehensive textbook, the authors examine the challenges faced by governments around the world, and champion a fresh approach to major infrastructure project management that takes into account the interdependencies between economic, social, political, technological and legislative environments.

Complemented by a range of international case studies, Major Infrastructure Projects: Planning for Delivery will teach you how to:

 ·         Effectively allocate capital resources at the portfolio level, to support and nurture even the most ambitious projects  

;    Enhance your existing project management models to meet the evolving challenges of the twenty-first century

·         Deepen your understanding of policy implementation, so that legislative realities can be a stepping-stone rather than a barrier to development

 ·         Streamline and refine traditional methods to shrink the complexity associated with major infrastructure projects

Major Infrastructure Projects is the ideal companion for courses on any aspect of project management, taking you from project appraisal and supply chain maximisation to contract selection, governance and ethics.

Edward Ochieng is a Senior Lecturer in Programme and Project Management at Cranfield University, UK. Previously, Edward was a Senior Lecturer in Project Management at Liverpool John Moores University. He has presented at national and international conferences, and has published three books, multiple book chapters and over 70 papers in refereed journals and conferences.

Andrew Price is Professor of Project Management at Loughborough University, UK. He has over 30 years’ design, construction and industry-focused research experience, and has been Principal or Co-investigator on 44 funded research projects worth over £13M. He is also the author of six books and hundreds of journal papers, conference papers and industry guidance documents.

David Moore is a Reader at Robert Gordon University, UK. David has been involved in funded research examining the behaviours of superior-performing project managers, which was rated as tending to international significance by EPSRC. He has authored or co-authored seven books and over 85 papers.