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Engineering project appraisal : the evaluation of alternative development schemes / Martin Rogers

Edition	2nd ed
Publisher	West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons
Year	c2012
Language	English
Size	1 online resource : ill
Authors	*Rogers Duffy
Subjects	LCSH:Engineering -- Costs  All Subject Search LCSH:Engineering -- Management  All Subject Search FREE:BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management FREE:TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Project Management LCSH:Electronic books FREE:Electronic books
Contents	ENGINEERING PROJECT APPRAISAL: The Evaluation of Alternative Development Schemes; Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART 1 ECONOMICS-BASED PROJECT APPRAISAL TECHNIQUES; 1 Decision Making and Project Appraisal; 1.1 Decision making context; 1.2 Techniques for decision making; 1.2.1 Non-analytical decision making; 1.2.2 Analytical decision making; 1.2.3 Reasoned choice; 1.2.4 Classical rational decision making; 1.2.5 Behavioural decision making; 1.2.6 Irrational decision making; 1.2.7 Political involvement in the project planning process; 1.3 Primacy of the rational model 1.4 Decision-making conditions1.4.1 Certainty; 1.4.2 Risk; 1.4.3 Uncertainty; 1.5 Project planning process; 1.5.1 Identifying project options; 1.5.2 Identifying attributes/criteria of evaluation; 1.5.3 Methods for engineering project appraisal; 1.6 Example of a decision process; 1.6.1 Case study 1: Economic analysis of alternative port access routes for a major city; 1.6.2 Case study 2: Multicriteria analysis of alternative waste management strategies for a region; 1.7 Summary; 1.8 Review of succeeding chapters; References; 2 Basic Tools for Economic Appraisal; 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The time value of money2.3 The estimation of interest; 2.4 Simple and compound interest; 2.5 Nominal and effective interest rates; 2.5.1 Nominal interest rates; 2.5.2 Effective interest rates; 2.6 Continuous compounding; 2.7 Time equivalence; 2.8 Economic computation; 2.8.1 Symbols; 2.8.2 Formulae for single payments; 2.8.3 Uniform series formulae; 2.8.4 Geometric series formulae; 2.8.5 Calculations involving unknown interest rates; 2.8.6 Calculation of unknown years; 2.8.7 Additional examples; 2.9 Summary; 3 Present Worth Evaluation; 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Present worth - the comparison process3.2.1 Comparing options with equal lives; 3.2.2 Comparing options with unequal lives; 3.2.3 Comparing options with infinite lives; 3.2.4 Life-cycle cost analysis; 3.2.5 Payback comparison method; 3.2.6 Additional examples; 3.3 Summary; 4 Equivalent Annual Worth Computations; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The pattern of capital recovery; 4.3 Modifying annual payments to include salvage value; 4.4 Evaluating a single project; 4.5 The comparison process; 4.5.1 Introduction; 4.5.2 Equal life projects; 4.5.3 Lease or buy?; 4.5.4 Projects with different lives 4.5.5 Projects with infinite lives4.6 Summary; 5 Rate of Return Computation; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return (MARR); 5.3 Internal Rate of Return (IRR); 5.4 IRR for a single project; 5.4.1 Calculating IRR for a single project using present worth; 5.4.2 Calculating IRR for a single project using annual worth; 5.4.3 Single projects with more than one possible rate of return; 5.4.4 External Rate of Return (ERR); 5.4.5 Historical External Rate of Return (HERR); 5.4.6 Project balance method; 5.4.7 Unequal lives; 5.5 Incremental analysis
Notes	Description based upon print version of record 5.5.1 Using rate of return analysis for ranking multiple mutually exclusive options Includes bibliographical references and index In most cases of civil engineering development

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