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Professional Practice Guides (PPGs)

The AACE International Professional Practice Guides (PPGs) are reference CDs containing the most worthwhile existing contributions to the cost engineering field and the advancement of total cost management. Intended to be comprehensive, well organized, and timely, each PPG title is a collection of selected articles from Cost Engineering journal, AACE International Transactions, and other sources to which AACE has rights, covering a particular technical topic area, or industry segment. The PPGs provide an excellent source of reference material and is a welcome addition to any reference library.

Currently, the following PPGs have been published:


(All PPGs may be ordered through our online store.)


PPG #1: Contracts and Claims, 4th edition
James G. Zack, Jr., Editor, AACE International, 2008

Covers: Contract Administration; Management of Construction Schedules; Schedule Control; Schedule Float Ownership; Cost Control; Management of Change; Cost Impacts; Productivity Impacts; Management and Analysis of Delay; Concurrent Delay Issues; Pricing of Delay; Mitigation of Claims; Documentation and Claims Management; Claim Recognition and Analysis; Claims Management; Negotiation Process; Alternative Dispute Remedy Process; Litigation and the Cost Engineer; and Project Audits.

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PPG #2: Risk, 2nd edition
Kenneth D. Brienzo PE, Editor, AACE International, 2007

CDictionary; Capital Investments; Cash Flow; Competitive Bidding; Contingency Analysis; Contracts; Cost Engineering; Decision Analysis; Economic Analysis; Escalation; Human Factors; Manufacturing; Research & Development; Safety & Health; Schedule; Technological Risk; and Value Engineering

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PPG #3: Cost Engineering in Aerospace and Aviation
Sarwar A. Samad, Editor, AACE International, 1998

Covers: Aerospace, and Aviation.

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PPG #4: Planning and Scheduling, 3rd edition
Trevor X. Crawford CCC, Editor, AACE International, 2011

Covers: Planning; Schedule Development; Schedule Management/Control; Classics; and Recommended Practices.

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PPG #5: Earned Value, 2nd edition
Robert A. Marshall, Editor, AACE International, 2007

Covers: Why Use Earned Value?; Basics of Earned Value; Cost/Schedule Control System Criteria; Actual Physical Percent Complete; Productivity and Earned Value; Earned Value Reporting; Applications of Earned Value Project Management; Earned Value and Loss of Productivity Claims; and Additional Information on Earned Value Management.

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PPG #6: Construction Cost Estimating, 3rd edition
Dr. Douglas D. Gransberg PE CCE FRICS and Dr. Carla Lopez del Puerto CCC, Editors, AACE International, 2011

Covers: Recommended Practices; Estimating Theory; Order-of-Magnitude Estimating; Estimating Factors and Indices; Estimating Material Costs and Quantity Surveying; Estimating Labor Costs; Estimating Equipment Costs; Subcontracting Costs; Estimating Overhead and Indirect Costs; Profit, Contingencies, and Mark-Ups; Estimating International Construction Costs; Heavy Civil Project Estimating; Estimating Specialty Projects; Scheduling Input to the Estimate and Change Orders; Bidding Decisions; Computer Applications to Construction Cost Estimating; Estimating Using Building Information Modeling; and Estimating Life Cycle Costs.

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PPG #7: Cost Engineering in the Utility Industries, 2nd edition
Dennis M. Thompson, Editor, AACE International, 2007

Covers: Auditing, Cost Estimating, Cost Modeling, Cost/Schedule Control, Generation Power Plant, Natural Gas Industry, Nuclear Power Plant, Other Energy Related Topics, Planning and Scheduling, Project Management, Utility Rates, and Utility Property Valuation.

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PPG #8: Contingency, 3rd edition
Kul B. Uppal PE, Editor, AACE International, 2010

Covers: General Topics On Contingency; Cost Estimating and Contingency; Risk Analysis and Contingency; Other Related Topics; and AACE International Recommended Practices..

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PPG #10: Project Delivery Methods, 2nd edition
Douglas D. Gransberg PE CCE, Tammy L. McCuen, and Keith Molenaar, Editors, AACE International, 2008

Covers: Design-Bid-Build (DBB) – DBB Estimating, DBB Scheduling, DBB Project Management; Construction Management (CM) – CM Estimating, CM Scheduling, CM Project Management; Design-Build (DB) – DB Estimating, DB Scheduling, DB Project Management; International Project Delivery; Constructability; and Partnering.

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PPG #11: Environmental Remediation and Decommissioning, 2nd edition
Richard A. Selg CCE, Editor, AACE International, 2009

Covers: Environmental Remediation Planning and Scheduling Methodology; Cost Estimating, Project Controls, Cost Modeling, and Reporting; Contingency Management, Risk Analysis, and Environmental Regulations; Benchmarking and Lessons Learned; Economics of Environmental and Waste Management; Cost-Effective Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention; Design, Construction Practices, and Other Related Topics; Standardized Approach to Estimating Decommissioning Cost; Decontamination and Decommissioning Estimating Approaches; Development of Decontamination and Decommissioning Cost Estimating Models; and Decontamination and Decommissioning Estimating Issues and Challenges.

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PPG #12: Construction Project Controls, 2nd edition
Dr. Douglas D. Gransberg, PE CCE FRICS, and Eric Scheepbouwer, Editors, AACE International, 2010

Covers: Introduction to Construction Project Controls; Cost Control; Schedule Control; Quality Control; Document Control; Computer Applications; and International Project Controls

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PPG #13: Parametric and Conceptual Estimating, 2nd edition
Douglas W. Leo CCC, Larry R. Dysert CCC, and Bruce Elliott CCC, Editors, AACE International, 2004

Covers: Parametric/Conceptual Estimating Overview; Estimate Classification; Parametric/Conceptual Estimating Methodology; Capacity Factoring; Parametric/Conceptual Estimating in the Process Industries;  Parametric/Conceptual Estimating in the Non-Process Industries; and Parametric/Conceptual Estimating Systems

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PPG #14: Portfolio and Program Management, 2nd Edition
Randy R. Rapp PE CCE, Editor, AACE International, 2007

Covers: Enterprise Management: General Imperatives and Concerns; Asset Requirements Elicitation and Analysis; Asset Planning and Investment Decision-Making; Asset Performance Assessment and Change Management; and Program Management.

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PPG #15: Life-Cycle Cost Analysis
Carla Lopez del Puerto CCC, and Dr. Douglas D. Gransberg PE CCE, Editors, AACE International, 2007

Covers: Life-Cycle Cost Theory; Life-Cycle Cost Calculation Methods; Determining Discount Rate; Estimating Capital Cost of Design and Construction; Estimating Operations Costs; Estimating Salvage/Residual Value; Estimating Sustainability; Life-Cycle Cost Risk Analysis; Life-Cycle Cost Case Studies; and Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in the International Context

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PPG #16: Cost Engineering in the Global Environment, 2nd Edition
Kul B. Uppal PE CEP, Editor, AACE International, 2011

General Topics on International Projects; Applicable AACE International Recommended Practices; Cost Estimating Methodology; Risk and Contingency; and Miscellaneous Topics

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PPG #17: Public Sector Estimating
Joseph L. Macaluso CCC, Editor, AACE International, 2007

Covers: Basis of Estimates; Labor Costs; Overhead and Profit; Soft Costs; Bid/Estimate Reconciliation; and Change Orders

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PPG #18: Green Building
Joseph L. Macaluso CCC, Editor, AACE International, 2008

Covers: Recognition of Affects and Economic Costs on the Environment; Formulating Ways of Addressing Green Building Strategies and Associated Economic Costs; Specific Green Building Strategies and Project Costs; Budgeting and Justifying the Cost Sustainable Practices; Evaluating Competing Sustainable Strategies: Using Value Engineering; Evaluating Competing Sustainable Strategies: Other Techniques.

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PPG #19: Leadership and Management of People
John J. Jannon CEP, Editor, AACE International, 2008

Covers: Leadership; Teams; Leadership Roles; Motivation; and Ethics.

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PPG #20: Forensic Schedule Analysis
James G. Zack, Jr. CFCC, Editor, AACE International, 2008

Covers: Recommended Practice No. 29R-03 Forensic Schedule Analysis; Synopsis of Recomended Practice; Basics of Schedule Delay Analysis; MIP-Observational/Static/Gross; MIP-Observational/Static/Perodic; MIP-Observational/Dynamic/Contemporaneious As-is; MIP-Observational/Dynamic/Contemporaneous/Split; MIP-Observational/Dynamic/Modified or Recreated; MIP-Modeled/Additive/Single Base; MIP-Modeled/Additive/Multiple Base; MIP-Modeled/Subtractive/Single Simulation; Non-CPM Schedule Delay Analysist Techniques; and General Schedule Analysis Articles.

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PPG #21: Cost Engineering in the Process Industries
Kul B. Uppal, PE CEP, Editor, AACE International, 2009

Covers: General Topics on Process Industries; Cost Estimating Methodology; Project Management; International Projects; Scheduling; Construction Activities; Risk Management; Project Controls; and Applicable AACE International Recommended Practices..

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