This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities. It offers a review of project feasibility analysis, and more critically, psychodynamic aspects that are often neglected, including how stakeholders interact. It provides a complement to the common techniques used for analyzing technical, financial, and marketing feasibility. The goal is to identify "hidden truths" and eliminate those gray areas that jeopardize the success of a given project. The focus is on uncovering points of vulnerabilities in four key aspects of a project: People, Power, Processes, and Plan.
True to Label, this book is a compendium of project feasibility studies. It particularly addresses the hands-on aspects of the trade, by providing explanations followed by worked out examples of analysis. The tendency in this book is towards expanding on the chapters concerning market study and financial feasibility. Quantitative analysis in the book largely prevails over the mere qualitative and descriptive approach, especially in calculating universal metrics that set a clear-cut demarcation between viable and non-viable business propositions.
Preliminary Feasibility for Public Research & Development Projects explains how to evaluate R&D business by exploring the five key features of policy implication, policy improvement, preliminary feasibility study, R&D evaluation, and R&D strategy and will help develop strategic measures for R&D preliminary feasibility studies.
This book discusses the art and science of economic decision making. It combines logical thinking with analytics, economics, and finance to draw decision insights for the upstream petroleum projects. The book offers useful analysis skills for practitioners in industry, including analysts, engineers, and managers. In addition, advanced undergraduate and graduate students in petroleum engineering, applied petroleum geoscience, industrial engineering, and energy business would benefit from the discussions in this book.
A seasoned project management consultant introduces critical project management skills, tools and techniques. Includes various work forms, practical examples, and many case studies, checklists and exercises.
This is a textbook for engineering and management/business undergraduates and postgraduate students and a reference for practicing engineers or managers who are familiar with their projects but less familiar with financial/economic analysis methods. The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 covers all the basic concepts and theories and provides the readers with a good understanding of the financial and economic analysis on the feasibility of projects. Plenty of examples are used to illustrate the theories, arguments and calculations. Part 2 consists of case studies on both financial and economic feasibility studies. Readers should be able to conduct their own financial and economic analyses by following the procedures and methodo-logy of the examples given.In this new edition, the chapters have been revised and expanded with the latest theories and data added, especially the most up-dated information on the development of the theories of internal rate of return and net present worth.
Given the significance of a feasibility study in decision making and implementation of the project, many people especially potential investors, financiers or even management lack the practical knowledge of feasibility study. In this regard, it becomes difficult to write a feasibility study which will provide a road map for a particular project. Based on this notion, this book sets to address those practical challenges in preparing a feasibility study. The purpose of the book is to provide practical guide to write a feasibility study to determine the viability of a specific project. Specifically, this will book will provide the description of every important section in a feasibility study with vivid illustration.
Feasibility Studies in Construction Projects covers all aspects of feasibility study analysis including assumptions, the preparation of a feasibility study for submission, and the necessary elements to consider regarding the project cycle. The book also provides templates for use in preparing a feasibility study report. The book offers the reader a step by step guide on how to prepare a feasibility study for a large infrastructure project, showing how problems can be presented in a way which does not prejudice the ultimate outcome of the project. It shows the reader how to identify the weaknesses of a project and make improvements, set assumptions, anticipate and prepare for various eventualities. It further shows how to test the sensitivity of the development as to changes in the original assumptions and business environment, convince prospective investors, venture capitalists, banks, management, stockholders, and government agencies of the relative value or prospects for success of the project. Finally the book explains the vital parts of a project development process and show how the pieces are assembled so they perform together to create a technical and economically feasible concept, thus evaluating the project's potential for success. Offering the reader a step by step guide on how to prepare a feasibility study for a large infrastructure project, this book will be of great interest to engineers, architects, lenders, solicitors, construction project managers, lead developers, investors, governmental planning agencies, stakeholders, and construction bond underwriters as well as construction students.
This 2007 third edition continues to be a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the business, practice, law, and practical use of project finance. It covers the complete project finance structure, from conception to negotiation to debt closing, and from project difficulties to successful restructuring. The book continues to be accessible to those with little experience in project finance, while maintaining the insight and detail of previous editions that has made it a valuable reference for the experienced lawyer, manager, banker, contractor, and government official. This edition focuses on a real-world, practical approach to project finance, without the overuse of case studies and economic theory. Yet the contract forms, detailed glossary, index, and project finance bibliography make it a complete text.
