Engineering Project Management

Engineering Project Management provides a cleardescription of the aims of project management, based on bestpractice, and discusses the theory and practice in relation tomulti-disciplinary engineering projects, both large and small, inthe UK and overseas.

 

The Third Edition takes account of the increase in jointventures, project partnering, special project vehicles and otherforms of collaborative working. The text has been extended to givemore information on procurement, stakeholders and collaborativeprovision.

 

For the first time this book now contains a chapter on the UKPRINCE2® project management methodology providing a uniqueinsight into this increasingly popular approach.

 

The expertise of the authors gained from their promotion ofeffective project management through a combination of professionalexperience, research, consultancy, education and training should bebeneficial to both students of project management and recentlyappointed or practising project managers. The material isappropriate to support Masters level teaching, MSc, MBA and MEng,either by universities or others, action or distance learningcourses and self learning programmes.

 

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Cover illustrations courtesy of Getty Images

 

Cover design by Andy Meaden

Nigel J. Smith BSc, MSc, CEng, FICE, MAPM is Professor of Construction Project Management at the University of Leeds.