Building A Body Of Knowledge In Project Management In Developing Countries

Building A Body Of Knowledge In Project Management In Developing Countries
Author: George Ofori
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 951
Release: 2023-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811224730

This book presents a state-of-the-art account of the recent developments and needs for project management in developing countries. It adds to the current state of knowledge on project management in general by capturing current trends, how they widen the content and scope of the field, and why there is a need for a specialist body of knowledge for developing countries. Eminent experts in this domain address the specific nature and demands of project management in developing countries, in the context of its scope and priorities, and discuss the relationships between this emerging field and established bodies of knowledge. The book also addresses the future of project management in developing countries and how this might influence mainstream project management. This important book will be an essential reference for practitioners, students, researchers and policymakers engaged in how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of project management in developing countries.

Sustainable Development of Smart Cities Infrastructure (SDSCI-2023) (Volume-1)

Sustainable Development of Smart Cities Infrastructure (SDSCI-2023) (Volume-1)
Author: H.K. Sharma
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2023-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 939095164X

Sustainable development of smart cities infrastructures is of paramount importance and need to be planned, designed, constructed, operated and de-commissioned in a manner that ensures economic, social, environmental and institutional sustainability over the entire infrastructure life cycle. Smart cities infrastructure however be cost effective, disaster resilient, environmentally friendly, conserving natural resources, and sustainable ensuring faster delivery of quality and durable structures which include roads, building, bridges, energy and water infrastructures. Government of India is going to encourage Public Private Partnership (PPP) as an alternate option to build most of the infrastructures, which can be useful both for green-field as well as brown-field smart cities projects. The present book is a collection of contributed research and review papers presented at the ‘National Conference on Sustainable Development of Smart Cities Infrastructure’ (SDSCI-2023) held at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra in May 2023.The subject matter is grouped into nine sessions which include research articles pertaining to sustainable development of smart cities, urban and rural planning, transportation, built environment and management, sustainable and smart technologies, materials, construction and maintenance, advance modelling, characterization of structures, energy and environment, performance of smart cities infrastructure under extreme loading conditions, green buildings, structural health monitoring, and ICT in smart cities, data mining and machine learning for sustainable infrastructure, GIS and remote sensing, future trends and prospects of smart cities, innovative technologies, building energy and efficiency and sobriety, and sustainable resilience to natural and man-made disasters, and smart materials, etc. The book would be a valuable reference for researchers, students, structural designers, site engineers, and all related engineers involved in the field of sustainable development of smart cities infrastructure.

Culinary Infrastructure

Culinary Infrastructure
Author: Jeffrey Pilcher
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351347330

Over the past two centuries, global commodity chains and industrial food processing systems have been built on an infrastructure of critical but often-overlooked facilities and technologies used to transport food and to convey knowledge about food. This culinary infrastructure comprises both material components (such as grain elevators, transportation networks, and marketplaces) and immaterial or embodied expressions of knowledge (cooking schools, restaurant guides, quality certifications, and health regulations). Although infrastructural failures can result in supply shortages and food contamination, the indirect consequences of infrastructure can be just as important in shaping the kinds of foods that are available to consumers and who will profit from the sale of those foods. This volume examines the historical development of a variety of infrastructural nodes and linkages, including refrigerated packing plants in Nazi-occupied Europe, trans-Atlantic restaurant labour markets, food safety technologies and discourses in Singapore, culinary programming in Canadian museums, and dietary studies in colonial Africa. By paying attention to control over facilities and technologies as well as the public–private balance over investment and regulation, the authors reveal global inequalities that arise from differential access to culinary infrastructure. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Food History.

Building a Body of Knowledge in Project Management in Developing Countries

Building a Body of Knowledge in Project Management in Developing Countries
Author: George Ofori
Publisher: Domain-Specific Bodies of Know
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9789811224713

This book aims to present a state-of-the-art account of the field of project management (PM) and present a body of knowledge (BoK)of the field for developing countries. It will discuss the current state of knowledge on project management by considering current trends and how they widen the content and scope of the field and explore the need for a special body of knowledge of project management for developing countries. It will also determine the nature of project management in developing countries, consider the contents of the field, and discuss the relationships between the new field and established bodies of knowledge. Lastly, this book will consider the future of project management in developing countries and how it might influence mainstream project management. This will be an important reference book for practitioners, students, researchers and administrators.

Complimentary Textbook of Professionalism, Professional Values and Ethics including Bioethics_1e - E-Book

Complimentary Textbook of Professionalism, Professional Values and Ethics including Bioethics_1e - E-Book
Author: Sonali Banerjee
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2023-07-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 8131267725

Salient Features• Provides simple and comprehensive content with learner-centric approach• Contains research-grounded and updated information• Discusses COVID-19 pandemic and various case scenarios• Discusses ethical dilemmas in nursing practice in context of specific settings and specialties• Precisely covers topics as per revised syllabus from the Indian Nursing Council• Provides crisp diagrammatic presentation and tabulation of content for easy comprehension• Provides quick help to examinees and examiners on probable questions• Chapters start with learning objectives, which include important aspects summarized in boxes with bullet points forease in grasping of concepts

Public-Private Partnerships

Public-Private Partnerships
Author: Akintola Akintoye
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0470680431

Public Private Partnership is a key issue in the construction industry – causing much concern among contractors, funders and facility managers. Demand has been building for a thorough analysis ... This edited book will familiarise both researchers and construction professionals working with public private partnerships (PPP) with the issues involved in the planning, implementation and day-to-day management of public private projects. It will show how current risk management methods can help the complex process of managing procurement via such partnerships. The chapters - most authored by a practitioner/academic partnership - are organised round the concepts of best value and use the findings of a major research project investigating Risk Assessment and Management in Private Finance Initiative Projects. The analysis of this research will be supplemented with contributions by leading international experts from Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore, covering hospitals, schools, waste management and housing - to exemplify best practice in PPP-based procurement.

Routledge Handbook of Construction Project Procurement and Delivery

Routledge Handbook of Construction Project Procurement and Delivery
Author: Mohan Kumaraswamy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2024-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1003817793

This Handbook provides the knowledge needed to design and deploy proactive construction project procurement and delivery systems based on essentials while addressing emerging construction industry imperatives in order to boost overall performance. Section 1 of the Handbook provides an overview, while Section 2 provides the fundamentals with fresh insights into the building blocks and trends in performance-linked procurement and delivery, including procurement strategies and commercial priorities, project briefs and management plans, design management, stakeholder management, risk management, ethics and professionalism, team building, information and knowledge management, digital aids, conflict, claims and dispute management, collaborative contracting, relationship-based teamworking and linking to built asset management. Section 3 explores and expands on specific trends, including sub-contractor selection, Building Information Modelling (BIM) in project cost management; off-site and modern methods of construction; 4IR/5IR technologies; and constructing for the circular economy, supply chain resilience and social value imperatives in this domain. While other books describe standard processes or focus on specific strategies such as design and build, target cost contracting or integrated project delivery, this Handbook presents the fundamentals of such processes and protocols together with invited specialist insights into growing trends and imperatives in holistic procurement and delivery. Those who could benefit from this Handbook include academics, researchers, postgraduate students, policy makers and administrators, managers in both public and private sectors involved with planning and overseeing construction project procurement and/or delivery and undergraduates looking for a balanced introduction and useful insights into what is critical to the success of construction projects, organisations and the industry itself.