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PPG #1: Contracts and Claims, 4th edition (CD)
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 (CD)
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
(CD)
Sarwar A. Samad, Editor, AACE International, 1998
Covers: Aerospace, and Aviation.
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PPG #4: Planning and Scheduling,
2nd edition (CD)
Trevor X. Crawford CCC, Editor, AACE International, 2006
Covers: Planning; Schedule Development; Schedule
Management/Control; and Classics.
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PPG #5: Earned Value, 2nd
edition (CD)
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,
2nd edition (CD)
Douglas D. Gransberg PE CCE and Carla Lopez del Puerto CCC, Editors, AACE International, 2006
Covers: Recommended Practices; Estimating Theory; Conceptual, Parametric, and Range
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; and Computer
Applications to Construction Cost Estimating.
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PPG #7: Cost Engineering in the Utility Industries,
2nd edition
(CD)
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 (CD)
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 (CD)
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 (CD)
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 (CD)
Douglas D. Gransberg PE CCE, and James E. Koch, Editors, AACE International, 2002
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 (CD)
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 (CD)
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 (CD)
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 (CD)
Kul B. Uppal PE, Editor, AACE International, 2007
Covers: 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 (CD)
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 (CD)
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 (CD)
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 (CD)
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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