Download or read book Design Quality and the Private Finance Initiative written by Great Britain. Royal Fine Art Commission and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Introduction; Lord St John of Fawsley - Setting the scene: Deborah Bartlett - The NHS Quality Initiative: John Horan MP - The Ambulatory Care & Diagnostic Centre, Central Middlesex Hospital: John Allan - PFI and design in the public realm: the Labour party view: Mark Fisher MP - Observations on current PFI projects: Trevor Osborne - The Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds: Guy Wilson, Professor Derek Walker - Overview: Alistair Ross Goodby - Discussions and chairman's summing-up: Lord St John of Fawsley

Download or read book Quality of Design Within PFI Projects written by Ebun Akinsete and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government has placed Private Finance Initiative at the heart of its strategy to reform public services in the UK. The main function of this reform is to provide quality public facilities to their users. This has seen PFI emerge as one of the key forms of Public Private Partnership delivery not just within the UK construction industry, but increasingly so on a global scale. Despite 'value for money' being one of the core principles of PFI, questions have remained with regards to the quality of the finished projects delivered via this route particularly where design is concerned. This book investigates the role of quality of design within PFI, examining its importance and whether PFI is delivering facilities to a high standard of design quality.

Download or read book Quality of Design Within PFI Projects written by Ebun Akinsete and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Design Quality Manual written by Martin Cook and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone involved in a building project wants to achieve a better building but design quality means different things to clients, users, architects, cost consultants and contractors. Negotiating design priorities is an important part of the development process. The Design Quality Manual helps give an objective evaluation of the qualitative aspects of design. Matrices with five defined levels of quality have been developed that cover the key areas of architecture, environmental engineering, user comfort conditions, whole-life costs, detail design and user satisfaction. These can be scored by a visual survey and professional judgement and then augmented by scientific measurement where possible (e.g. temperature, lighting and sound levels). The resultant scores allow comparisons in terms of overall and specific aspects of building performance and design quality. The Manual covers schools, hospitals and housing and offers a set of criteria by which to judge a broad range of design values; it focuses the design team on the needs of the end user and on the overall building performance.

Download or read book Mastering the Risky Business of Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure written by Manal Fouad and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment in infrastructure can be a driving force of the economic recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of shrinking fiscal space. Public-private partnerships (PPP) bring a promise of efficiency when carefully designed and managed, to avoid creating unnecessary fiscal risks. But fiscal illusions prevent an understanding the sources of fiscal risks, which arise in all infrastructure projects, and that in PPPs present specific characteristics that need to be addressed. PPP contracts are also affected by implicit fiscal risks when they are poorly designed, particularly when a government signs a PPP contract for a project with no financial sustainability. This paper reviews the advantages and inconveniences of PPPs, discusses the fiscal illusions affecting them, identifies a diversity of fiscal risks, and presents the essentials of PPP fiscal risk management.

Download or read book Architectural Design Quality in Local Authority Private Finance Initiative Sheltered Housing Projects written by Monika Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Private Finance Initiative written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Treasury Committee concludes that Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding for new infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, does not provide taxpayers with good value for money and stricter criteria should be introduced to govern its use. Higher borrowing costs since the credit crisis mean that PFI is now an extremely inefficient method of financing projects. Poor investment decisions may continue to be encouraged across the public sector, however, because PFI allows Government departments and public bodies to make big capital investments without committing large sums up front. There is no convincing evidence that savings and efficiencies during the lifetime of PFI projects offset the higher cost of finance. The current Value for Money appraisal system may be biased to favour PFIs and there are problems with the way costs and benefits for such projects are currently calculated. Investment could be increased in the long run if government capital investment were used instead of PFI. Paying off a PFI debt of £1bn may cost taxpayers the same as paying off a direct government debt of £1.7bn. Recommendations include: the Treasury should consider scoring most PFIs in departmental budgets in the same way as direct capital expenditure; the Treasury should discuss with the OBR the treatment of PFI to ensure that PFI cannot be used to 'game' the fiscal rules; the Value for Money assessment process should be subjected to scrutiny by the NAO; the Treasury should review the way in which risk transfer is identified.

Download or read book Designing Better Buildings written by Sebastian Macmillan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Download or read book The Role and Impact of Public private Partnerships in Education written by Harry Anthony Patrinos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an overview of international examples, studies, and guidelines on how to create successful partnerships in education. PPPs can facilitate service delivery and lead to additional financing for the education sector as well as expanding equitable access and improving learning outcomes.

Download or read book Design Quality in PFI Projects written by Eleni Petroulopoulou and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Private Finance for Development written by Hilary Devine and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the tension between large development needs in infrastructure and scarce public resources. To alleviate this tension and promote a strong and job-rich recovery from the crisis, Africa needs to mobilize more financing from and to the private sector.

Download or read book Primary Care Centres written by Geoffrey Purves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary Care Centres explores the process of planning and designing buildings for frontline medical practice. Taking as a starting point the concept that good design contributes directly to healthy living, the book shows beneficial effects that a good design brief can bring to the staff, patients and visitors of health care facilities. It outlines principles for designs that are both practical and useful. International case studies of healthcare facilities in the UK, US, Japan and South Africa provide technical detail and give best practice examples of well-designed healthy living centres, with an emphasis on building performance and catering for the latest government policy developments. This new edition provides trusted guidance on investing in effective architecture for architects and project managers involved in the design of healthcare facilities. Dr Geoffrey Purves is Chairman of Purves Ash LLP, a firm of Architects in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has held a range of professional appointments with the Royal Institute of British Architects and is an Honorary Research Associate at Durham University.

Download or read book Building Procurement written by Roy Morledge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an industrial process, construction is unique. The procurement processes used to achieve the successful completion of built assets requires a different approach to that adopted in most other industries, due to the design of buildings being bespoke and the sites being geographically varied. The procurement process is central to the success of any construction project and many of the problems which impact construction projects can be traced back to the procurement phase, so a good understanding of the methods of procurement, the development of a procurement strategy and the influence it has on project success is essential for all those working in the industry. Much has changed in the global construction industry since publication of the second edition of Building Procurement, for example the increase in debt burden of many major economies, widespread adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) Technology in the industry and the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. This new edition has been rewritten to take account of these significant developments, but at its core it continues to provide a critical examination and review of current procurement practices in the UK, continental Europe (including EU procurement procedures), China, Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa and the USA. It retains its original strong emphasis on the need for clients to establish achievable objectives which reflect the project business case and focuses on development of suitable strategies and management structures to meet those objectives in the current construction climate. Building Procurement will be essential reading for senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of construction management and practitioners working in all areas of construction management.

Download or read book Partnerships in Urban Property Development written by Nigel Dubben and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers partnerships in the broadest sense, presenting a critical account of the whole range of partnerships in property development. The emphasis is on the relationship between developers and landowners, developers and funders, and the provision of public services through the use of private finance. The authors draw on their own professional experience of running property partnerships and, with carefully researched case studies, present the 'insider' view, making a potentially dry and complex subject accessible and lively. The book moves beyond a theoretical overview and, by illuminating the reality of property partnerships shows for example, exactly how the government is procuring schools, hospitals and roads. This clear and objective analysis sets property partnerships in their economic and political contexts and will be of topical interest to surveyors and developers - in both private practice and local authorities - as well as to funders. Students in surveying, estate management and real estate development will also find this a concise and authoritative guide. Contents 1 The Public and Private Sectors 2 The Property Development Process 3 Partnership Negotiations using Development Appraisal Techniques 4 The Private Finance Initiative 5 Public Private Partnerships: the Urban Experience of Dublin 6 Property Funding Partnerships 7 Development Partnerships and Landowners 8 International Trends and Public Private Partnerships 9 Economic Background and Future Trends

Download or read book The Wiley Guide to Project Program and Portfolio Management written by Peter W. G. Morris and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to project management and its interaction with other management systems and strategies The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects address critical, need-to-know information that will enable professionals to successfully manage projects in most businesses and help students learn the best practices of the industry. They contain not only well-known and widely used basic project management practices but also the newest and most cutting-edge concepts in the broader theory and practice of managing projects. This first book in the series, The Wiley Guide to Project, Program & Portfolio Management, is based on the "meta" level of management, which, simply stated, asserts that project management must be integrated throughout an organization in order to achieve its full potential to enhance the bottom line. This book will show you how to fully understand and exploit the strategic management of projects, portfolios, and program management and their linkage with context and strategy in other concepts and processes, such as quality management, concurrent engineering, just-in-time delivery, systems management and engineering, teams, and statistical quality control. Featuring contributions from experts all around the world, this invaluable resource book offers authoritative project management applications for industry, service businesses, and government agencies. Complete your understanding of project management with these other books in The Wiley Guides to the Management of Projects series: * The Wiley Guide to Project Control * The Wiley Guide to Project Organization & Project Management Competencies * The Wiley Guide to Project Technology, Supply Chain & Procurement Management

Download or read book A Healthy Partnership written by Gavin Kelly and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Designing Better Buildings written by Sebastian Macmillan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents