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Achieving Results: How to Create Value
Author(s): Roy Woodhead and James McCuish
Publication date: 01 January 2003
ISBN: 9780727731845
£57.00
A company's ability to quickly adapt to the changing demands and requirements of its customers has become an essential requirement for it's long-term survival. Managers must not limit their thinking to 'just' the product or project's value but more importantly what will make customers prefer their offerings to those presented by rivals. It's about
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Managing Projects for Success: A Trilogy
Author(s): Hamilton, Consultant
Publication date: 01 January 2001
ISBN: 9780727734976
£116.25
Managing Projects for success is a 'how to do it' book of considerable value to practitioners and students alike. It provides the challenge of theory application through a series of exercises and is comprehensively illustrated.
Managing Projects for Success equips the reader with specialist skills that can be immediately applied in practice and
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Site Management for Engineers
Author(s): Trevor Holroyd, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 06 May 1999
ISBN: 9780727727367
£46.75
Newly qualified engineers often find that the skills required when they enter the workplace are different from the skills they learnt throughout their education and training. This may result in them feeling disadvantaged in a world of work which is strictly commercial. This book presents, in concise and clear terms, the various aspects of site mana
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The Philosophy of Risk
Author(s): John C Chicken, Consultant and Tamar Posner, Safety Assessment Federation
Publication date: 15 April 1999
ISBN: 9780727726667
£40.75
This book gives decision-makers a logical overall philosophy of risk that will enable them to make sound and consistently defensible decisions about the acceptability of risk. The authors examine a variety of activities - as diverse as major industrial projects and medicine, finance and sport, transport and manufacturing - to identify the factors c
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Structural Appraisal of Iron Framed Textile Mills: ICE Design and Practice Guide
Author(s): Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 09 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727727138
£20.90
This guide begins with a broad overview of mill building structures and their development, illustrated with examples of mill construction details. It then moves on to discuss measures that may be needed to ensure compliance with modern Building Regulations. Historical and modern evidence is presented to show that the robustness of these old buildin
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Communication for Professional Engineers, 2nd edition
Author(s): W. Scott, Consultant and Bertil Billing, Consultant Engineer
Publication date: 11 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727726308
£29.00
The skill of communicating effectively is rarely an inherited gift and the majority of people, who are not blessed with this instinctive flair, have to work hard to develop and acquire the ability.
Communication for professional engineers is a practical and down-to-earth guide to all the techniques you can use to improve your communication skill
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The Management of Setting out in Construction: ICE Design and Practice Guide
Author(s): Edited by Jim Smith
Publication date: 11 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727726148
£40.75
There are few tasks in surveying that carry more onerous responsibilities than setting out. The financial cost of mistakes can be horrendous and completely out of proportion to the perceived value of the task. Setting out is just one part of a complex series of processes which spans the whole project from inception to final construction and beyond.
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Highway Maintenance Handbook, 2nd Edition
Author(s): Edited by Ken Atkinson, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 10 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725318
£140.25
In recent years, highway maintenance has become a high profile topic, owning to the greater travel potential of the general public and to the impact of roadworks on commerce following the swing away from rail transport. Highway maintenance was once a low-key activity, but it is now being treated as an important consideration in the overall cost of
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Construction Project Management: Getting it Right First Time
Author(s): John Woodward, Consultant
Publication date: 10 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725578
£59.75
'Its breadth and depth commend it to everybody who needs to refresh, or extend their knowledge of the subject…It covers the full range of techniques from the hard basics of network analysis to the softer but vital human aspects. It centres upon the management of construction projects but draws in and illuminates the points where the techniques are
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Preparing International Proposals
Author(s): Robert E Bartlett, Consultant, Germany
Publication date: 10 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725820
£46.50
The modern engineer has two key tasks: successfully completing projects and working to win the next one. In the past, a proposal may have been little more than a brief letter, accompanied by one or two CVs. Now, to tempt prospective clients, engineers have to submit a comprehensive document consisting of one hundred pages or more of text and calcul
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