Construction cost management

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Construction cost management: Learning from case studies

by Keith Potts

As a construction project manager, achieving this while maintaining quality is the most valuable package you can offer your clients.

Of course, its value derives largely from it’s difficulty – if it were easy to complete jobs entirely to plan then it would happen rather more often.

Using a combination of worked examples and case studies, Construction cost management examines how projects go over-cost, what lessons can be learned from past examples and what approaches have successfully been employed. Example case studies include:

The Scottish Parliament
Wembley Stadium
Heathrow Terminal 5.
If you’re studying Surveying or Construction Management or starting out as a Construction Cost Manager and need to plan or assess construction projects, then this is the book- Construction cost management for you.

In the last decade, following the Latham and Egan reports, there have been many significant changes in the role of the construction cost manager.

Keith Potts examines the key issues and best practice in the cost management of construction projects under traditional contracts and new methodologies.

All stages within the life cycle of a project are considered from pre-contract to tendering and post-contract.

Extensive references are captured, including the UK government’s Constructing Excellence programme and the National Audit Reports, in order to further develop an understanding of the subject.