Facility management : changing global viewpoints and maturity / by Kathy O. Roper and Lisa J. Borello -- Competencies, credentials, education, and training / by Robert L. Barnes -- FM consultancy and client-provider relationships / by Kathy O. Roper -- Globalization of facility management / by...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Contributor Biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Resilience as a 'Lens' for Driving the Adaptive Capacity of Cities -- Chapter 1 The Context for Building Resilience through Sustainable Change of Use Adaptation --...

The complexity of public-private partnership project procurement requires an effective process for pricing, managing and appropriate allocation of risks. The level at which risk is priced and the magnitude of risks transferred to the private sector will have a significant impact on the cost of...

The multi-disciplinary perspective provided here offers a strategic view on built environment issues and improve understanding of how built environment activities potentially induce global warming and climate change. It also highlights solutions to these challenges. Solutions to Climate change...

"The book provides up-to-date coverage of the latest developments in risk pricing strategies and presents a comprehensive treatment of the methodologies involved in designing and building risk pricing models.The author explains how public-private partnership project risk is priced and...