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    • Essentials of Project Planning: Owner's Perspective 

      Alexander Laufer (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      Project planning, especially from the owner's point of view, is a relatively new field. After more than a decade of intensive development, it is still difficult to point to significant progress in the understanding of ...
    • Effective Progress Scheduling and Control for Construction Projects 

      Amir Tavakoli (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      Guidelines for progress scheduling and control of department‐of‐transportation (DOT) construction projects are presented. The guidelines are based on best current practices and management techniques and are modified to ...
    • Life‐Cycle Considerations in Urban Infrastructure Engineering 

      David Novick (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      Repair, rehabilitate, reconstruct, or replace? These are the choices when decisions are to be made about upgrading deteriorating transportation systems to meet urgent needs in older urban areas of the United States. ...
    • Consulting Engineer's View of Governmental Overhead and Audits 

      Delon Hampton (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      Present audit rules, guidelines, and regulations used by governmental agencies are in some cases discriminatory and in most cases adversely impact the financial stability of consulting engineering firms. These agencies ...
    • Quantifying Variations in Project‐Cost Estimates 

      Robert M. Bradley; Michael G. Powell; Michael R. Soulsby (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      Traditional methods of estimating project costs do not attempt to assess the magnitude of the variation inherent in the estimate. As a result, there is a risk that decisions on strategy selection will be based on a high ...
    • Pricing Hazardous‐Waste Risk 

      Andrew J. Frano (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      A procedure is presented to analyze and price the risk from engineering or construction contracts involving hazardous‐waste projects. The procedure is based upon using a newly developed computation to assign a defined ...
    • Setting and Meeting Requirements for Quality 

      Arthur W. Saarinen, Jr.,; Marlene A. Hobel (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      In consulting engineering, quality management is an ongoing process of establishing requirements for each project and its tasks; communicating those requirements to all members of the project team; providing the leadership, ...
    • The Liability Crisis‐Revisited 

      Milton F. Lunch (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      Since the “liability crisis” burst upon the scene, the picture has changed in significant respect in the form of legislative activity dealing with key aspects of liability exposure, more emphasis on dispute resolution short ...
    • Financial Issues in Engineering Management: Interview 

      D. Hugh Taylor; Melville Hensey (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      This interview of D. Hugh Taylor by Mel Hensey addresses four financial issues that engineering managers must understand and address through their accounting staff to collaboratively provide for effective financial management ...
    • Management Forum 

      Dale Crosby; Mel Hensey; William A. Cohen; Tom Peters; Karl Albrecht; Philip Crosby; William M. Hayden, Jr. (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
    • Entrepreneurs in Engineering Organizations 

      John L. Payne (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      Entrepreneurs in engineering organizations are oftentimes misunderstood. Recognition of their characteristics and qualities can promote more productive lives and professional accomplishments. In any organization, the ability ...
    • Managing for Increased Design and Construction Innovation 

      C. B. Tatum (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)
      Innovation is a growing competitive necessity and management responsibility. This paper describes actions by managers to increase innovation in design and construction firms, based on an investigation of over 20 examples ...
    • Model for Owner Prequalification of Contractors 

      Jeffrey S. Russell (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      A decision model for contractor prequalification has been developed to aid construction owners and architects/engineers in the decision process associated with the prequalification of contractors. Construction professionals ...
    • Productivity Measurements: Untangling White‐Collar Web 

      Charles R. White; Jeffrey S. Austin (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)
      This paper presents a model for measuring work in predominantly white‐collar organizations. The model, based on Saaty's “analytical hierarchy,” allows for quantification of complex, highly interactive factors influencing ...
    • Margin of Profit: Teamwork 

      William E. Norris (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
      The writer believes that profitability is essential to professional success in consulting engineering, and that professional staff should understand that fundamental. So believing, it follows that management is responsible ...
    • Operations Management in Engineering Office 

      Fadi A. Karaa; All Touran; Robert L. Meserve; Guillermo Escobar (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)
      This paper documents a comprehensive operations anslysis with the objective of improving production levels at the engineering division of a public agency. The work content and the nature of the problem are representative ...
    • Private Sector Risk Analysis: Applied to Dam Safety 

      Catalino B. Cecilio (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989)
      Although risk‐analysis is currently gaining acceptance in the decision process among engineers involved in public safety of water resources projects, the “state‐of‐the‐art” tool is still difficult to apply. This paper ...
    • Editor's Letter 

      Melville Hensey (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)
    • Management Forum 

      Priscilla Neale; Warren Bennis; Mark J. Tager; Melville Hensey; Mindell S. Woehr; Nadine M. Post; Robert A. M. Coppenrath; Julie Isphording; Edward B. Mitchell; Karl Albrecht; Arthur Saarinen; Marlene Hobel; Karl Albrecht; Susan Hays; Matt Noel; Michael K. Badawy (American Society of Civil Engineers, 1990)