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  • Project Risk and Opportunity Management

    The Owner's Perspective

    by Agnar Johansen, George Jergeas, Asbjørn Rolstadås, Nils Olsson ...
    Effective risk and opportunity management is key to the successful delivery of any major engineering and construction project. This book looks at how all those involved can manage risk and capitalise on the opportunities that uncertainty present. The authors of this book highlight that uncertainties should be managed rather than avoided. This book will look at simple projects with a small team, to ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Capital Projects

    Beyond the Myth of Predictability

    by Asbjørn Rolstadås, Per Willy Hetland, George Farage Jergeas, Richard E. Westney ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Investors and managers of major projects know how often they result in cost overruns and schedule delays. Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Capital Projects builds on conventional best practice to provide a risk-based view of current practices for planning and executing large international projects.As economies of scale continue to drive projects to ever-higher levels of scope and complexity, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Fundamentals of Space Business and Economics

    by Ozgur Gurtuna ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides an overview of key topics related to space business and management. Case studies and an integrative section are included to illustrate the fundamental concepts and to build intuition. Key topics in the field, such as risk management and cost management, are covered in detail. ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Asset Management

    The State of the Art in Europe from a Life Cycle Perspective

    Edited by Paulien Herder, Ype Wijnia, Telli Van der Lei ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    In the past decades asset intensive companies have witnessed a number of regulatory changes and especially industry is facing ever increasing competitiveness. To overcome these challenges different asset management methods have been developed aimed to improve the asset life cycle. Especially the design phase and operation and maintenance phase have seen a rise in tools and methods. Smarter design ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Practical Manual of Quality Function Deployment

    by Davide Maritan ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book introduces into the practical application of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) beyond the famous House of Quality Matrix by presenting a fully developed example of a clear and comprehensive QFD framework. The QFD workflow is described step by step, encompassing strategic planning, customer surveys, product and service characteristics, mechanisms, parts and cost deployment, technologies, ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Principles of Performance and Reliability Modeling and Evaluation

    Essays in Honor of Kishor Trivedi on his 70th Birthday

    Edited by Antonio Puliafito, Lance Fiondella ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents the latest key research into the performance and reliability aspects of dependable fault-tolerant systems and features commentary on the fields studied by Prof. Kishor S. Trivedi during his distinguished career. Analyzing system evaluation as a fundamental tenet in the design of modern systems, this book uses performance and dependability as common measures and covers novel ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Definitions, Concepts and Scope of Engineering Asset Management

    Edited by Kerry Brown, Roger Willett, Joseph Mathew, Joe E. Amadi-Echendu ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Definitions, Concepts and Scope of Engineering Asset Management, the first volume in this new review series, seeks to minimise ambiguities in the subject matter. The ongoing effort to develop guidelines is shaping the future towards the creation of a body of knowledge for the management of engineered physical assets. Increasingly, industry practitioners are looking for strategies and tactics that ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Maintenance Overtime Policies in Reliability Theory

    Models with Random Working Cycles

    by Toshio Nakagawa, Xufeng Zhao ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book introduces a new notion of replacement in maintenance and reliability theory. Replacement Overtime, where replacement is done at the first completion of a working cycle over a planned time, is a new research topic in maintenance theory and also serves to provide a fresh optimization technique in reliability engineering. In comparing replacement overtime with standard and random ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Air Transport System

    by Dieter Schmitt, Volker Gollnick ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book addresses all major aspects to be considered for the design and operation of aircrafts within the entire transportation chain.It provides the basic information about the legal environment, which defines the basic requirements for aircraft design and aircraft operation. The interactions between airport, air traffic management and the airlines are described. The market forecast methods and ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Quality, IT and Business Operations

    Modeling and Optimization

    Edited by Ajit Kumar Verma, P.K. Kapur, Uday Kumar ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book discusses action-oriented, concise and easy-to-communicate goals and challenges related to quality, reliability, infocomm technology and business operations. It brings together groundbreaking research in the area of software reliability, e-maintenance and big data analytics, highlighting the importance of maintaining the current growth in information technology (IT) adoption in ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Construction Safety

    by Rita Yi Man Li, Sun Wah Poon ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    A close-to-ideal blend of suburb and city, speedy construction of towers of Babylon, the sparkling proportion of glass and steel buildings’ facade at night showcase the wisdom of humans. They also witness the footsteps, sweats and tears of architects and engineers. Unfortunately, these signatures of human civilizations are swathed in towering figures of construction accidents. Fretting about these ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Managing Risk in Nanotechnology

    Topics in Governance, Assurance and Transfer

    Edited by Finbarr Murphy, Eamonn M. McAlea, Martin Mullins ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book aims to address how nanotechnology risks are being addressed by scientists, particularly in the areas of human health and the environment and how these risks can be measured in financial terms for insurers and regulators. It provides a comprehensive overview of nanotechnology risk measurement and risk transfer methods, including a chapter outlining how Bayesian methods can be used. It ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD