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Design-build for Water and Wastewater Projects
Written for water and wastewater utility personnel, the collection of 30 articles provides a basic template of how DB projects can be planned, procured, and executed. Discussions include how the processes and procedures of design-build differ from those of design-bid-build, their impact on preliminary design and planning, procurement, and project execution.
Making Things Happen
Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural side of post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction. As the latter is often fraught with delays and even abandonment—one cause being ineffective interactions between construction and local people—PERRP used anthropological and participatory approaches. Along with strong construction management, such approaches led to the rebuilding being completed on time. As disasters are increasing in number and intensity, so too will be the need for reconstruction, for which PERRP has lessons to offer.
Megaproject Management
Project management lessons learned on the Big Dig, America's biggest megaproject, by a core member responsible for its daily operations In Megaproject Management, a central member of the Big Dig team reveals the numerous risks, challenges, and accomplishments of the most complex urban infrastructure project in the history of the United States. Drawing on personal experience and interviews with project engineers, executive oversight commission officials, and core managers, the author, a former deputy counsel and risk manager for the Big Dig, develops new insights as she describes the realities of day-to-day management of the project from a project manager's perspective. The book incorporates ...
Different Seconds 2
Continuing the approach he took in his first collection of poetry, R. S. Apple presents Different Seconds 2: Hello, Friend-See, Hear, Feel the Difference. In these verses, he celebrates the fact that no two people view life in the same way. From the realization that each day dawns with hope and possibilities in "Dawn of a New Sky" to the fanciful "Chasing Unicorns," Apple expresses his thoughts in a unique and powerful cadence. The point/counterpoint of "One Story Apartment" gives us a birds' eye view into the challenges of relationships, while "Death Valley" talks of the terror of a terrible traffic accident involving many cars. Different Seconds 2 offers an in-depth, imaginative view of the world through a collection of insightful poetry. Dawn of a New Sky Ever step on a land Where the sun meets the ground When it comes down It brings the darkness with it Blue sky turns to a black canvas Warm air becomes a chilly reminder of things to come A dry ground is now being damped Another world starts to take over ...
Guidebook on Risk Analysis Tools and Management Practices to Control Transportation Project Costs
This guidebook provides guidance to state departments of transportation for using specific, practical, and risk-related management practices and analysis tools for managing and controlling transportation project costs. Containing a toolbox for agencies to use in selecting the appropriate strategies, methods and tools to apply in meeting their cost-estimation and cost-control objectives, this guidebook should be of immediate use to practitioners that are accountable for the accuracy and reliability of cost estimates during planning, priority programming and preconstruction.
Risk Mitigation Strategies for Operations and Maintenance Activities
The objective of this research was to investigate the application of integrated risk modeling to operations and maintenance activities, specifically moving operations, such as pavement testing, pavement marking, painting, snow removal, shoulder work, mowing, and so forth. The ultimate goal is to reduce the frequency and intensity of loss events (property damage, personal injury, and fatality) during operations and maintenance activities. This report includes a literature review that identifies the current and common practices adopted by different state departments of transportation (DOTs) and other transportation agencies for safe and efficient highway operations and maintenance (O/M) activities. The final appendix to the report includes information for eight innovative O/M risk mitigation technologies/equipment and covers the following for these technologies/equipment: Appropriate conditions for deployment; Performance/effectiveness, depending on hazard/activity; Cost to purchase; Cost to operate and maintain; Availability (resources and references)
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Andy Shane and the Queen of Egypt
"Andy and Dolores tangle as they try to negotiate their bumpy friendship. . . .An upbeat volume for confident beginning readers." — The Horn Book The school Culture Fair is coming up, and Andy Shane has to pick an African country to learn about. Deciding isn’t easy for Andy, so he’s glad when Granny Webb gives him a scarab beetle, which he knows is a symbol of Egypt. But when Andy tries to tell Ms. Janice, Dolores Starbuckle springs up with her gold jewelry and glitter sandals and claims that she is the queen of Egypt. Dolores always gets her way — but this time Andy doesn’t feel like caving in. What will it take for him to share his project with the bossy queen? Fans of the endearing Andy Shane will be happy to see him holding his own in his new early-chapter-book adventure.
