Description
Volume 1 of this 2-part series covers a wide range of strategies for working engineers. This PDF guidebook will help you to improve your project management and assist in carrying out various types of cost engineering/cost estimation within diverse facilities throughout the CPI.
The project-management articles provide useful, tutorial discussions on a range of engineering and personnel-related issues. Articles provide actionable recommendations on training, project leadership, defining roles, managing cultural issues, performance reviews and more — all of which can help or hinder worker productivity and impact overall project success.
The articles related to cost engineering and cost estimation cover such useful topics as developing a sound basis for gathering and projecting cost data, evaluating and using competing cost-estimation tools and approaches, benchmarking for success and more.
These practical, how-to engineering articles were originally published in Chemical Engineering between 2005 and 2013.
This guidebook is 102 pages and delivered in a PDF format.
Table of Contents
Section One: Cost Engineering
▶ Making Sense of Your Project Cost Estimate
▶ Target Costing: Compliant facilities, delivered at the lowest possible cost, minimize the risk of failure and maximize the return on investment
▶ Capital and Production Costs: Improving the Bottom Line
▶ How to Prepare a Process Design Basis
▶ Benchmarking For Success
▶ Making Sense of Your Project Cost Estimate
▶ Capital Costs Quickly Calculated
▶ Use Simplified Lifecycle-Cost Computations to Justify Upgrades
▶ Evaluating Capital Cost Estimation Programs
▶ Total Cost Analysis Aids Purchasing Negotiations
Section Two: Project Management
▶ Ten Tips For Smart Project Managers
▶ Leadership of Project Teams
▶ E&C projects: Clarifying the Role of the Lead Process Engineer
▶ Avoiding Project Failures
▶ Project Success Builds On a Well-Defined Scope
▶ Operational Excellence Begins Here
▶ Employee development: Getting the Information You Need through a 360°Feedback Report
▶ Updating the Rules for Pipe Sizing
▶ Process Lead Responsibilities in Design Projects
▶ Owners and Contractors: Key Metrics Improve Performance
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