The book aims to impart technical understanding on life and fire safety to aid planning and design of building projects. It emphasized upon the importance of integrating fire safety considerations together with the functional planning and design configuration during project development phase. It imparts theoretical insight that enables building professionals to ensure the compliance of necessary fire protection measures required in the built environment. The issues of life and fire safety ...

This book highlights the vulnerability of healthcare buildings in the context of climate change-triggered extreme weather events (EWEs) and the case for mitigation. With a concise discussion on climate change and its consequences in the form of such events, a cost model and equations that register losses and help quantify them are then presented. The model can be used to estimate the significant potential loss that might occur during an EWE and help healthcare facilities prepare for them.

Assessment of professional competence for project managers and the measure of project success is well-trodden ground in the research and professional project management literature. Whilst standards and certifications like PMBOK and the IPMA competence baseline have been developed as a guide for the development of project managers’ competence, the manifestation of these competencies into good performance is neither guaranteed nor always easily ascertainable.This book presents a bran...