TY - BOOK AU - Potts,Keith F. TI - Construction cost management: learning from case studies SN - 9780415442879 (pbk.) U1 - 624.0681 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Construction industry KW - Costs KW - Cost control N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction and overview - 2. Reports and recommendations - 3. Selecting the consultants and contractors - 4. Pre-contract cost management - 5. Cost management on PFI projects - 6. Contractor's estimating and tendering - 7. Value management - 8. Risk Management (RM) - 9. Whole-life costing - 10. Organizational methods (part A) - 11. Organizational methods (part B) - 12. Payment systems and contract administration - 13. Contractors/ cost-control and monitoring procedures - 14. Change management-valuing variations - 15. Claims management - 16. The NEC engineering and construction contract - 17. FIDIC standard forms of international construction contract - 18. Case study: heatthrow terminal 5 - Table of cases - Index ER -