Computerized Project Control: 13 (Cost Engineering)

Highlights advantages, disadvantages, and future trends of computerization to project control activity. Stresses identification of when computerization is needed and explores how to convert. Covers fundamentals of project control theory, software technology, and labor and cost analysis. Includes glo

Fulvio Drigani is Project Controller of the Solar Terrestrial Space Program at the European Space Research and Technology Center (E.S.T.E.C.) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Prior to that he worked at Foster Wheeler Italiana in Milan, Italy, where he was responsible for project control system development and organization. Mr. Drigani has published numerous articles on cost engineering and its computer applications as well as lectured on project management and cost engineering. A member of the Italian Association of Cost Engineers, Mr. Drigani is a graduate of the Institute of Quantitative Methods, Universiti Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, in Milan, Italy, where he studied economics.