Engineering Project Appraisal

Preface, xiii Introduction, xv PART 1 ECONOMICS-BASED PROJECT APPRAISAL TECHNIQUES, 1 1 Decision Making and Project Appraisal, 3 1.1 Decision making context, 3 1.2 Techniques for decision making, 4 1.3 Primacy of the rational model, 13 1.4 Decision-making conditions, 14 1.5 Project planning process, 16 1.6 Example of a decision process, 22 1.7 Summary, 25 1.8 Review of succeeding chapters, 26 2 Basic Tools for Economic Appraisal 29 2.1 Introduction, 29 2.2 The time value of money, 29 2.3 The estimation of interest, 30 2.4 Simple and compound interest, 31 2.5 Nominal and effective interest rates, 33 2.6 Continuous compounding, 34 2.7 Time equivalence, 35 2.8 Economic computation, 37 2.9 Summary, 50 3 Present Worth Evaluation 51 3.1 Introduction, 51 3.2 Present worth - the comparison process, 52 3.3 Summary, 65 4 Equivalent Annual Worth Computations 67 4.1 Introduction, 67 4.2 The pattern of capital recovery, 67 4.3 Modifying annual payments to include salvage value, 69 4.4 Evaluating a single project, 71 4.5 The comparison process, 72 4.6 Summary, 77 5 Rate of Return Computation 79 5.1 Introduction, 79 5.2 Minimum Acceptable Rate of Return (MARR), 79 5.3 Internal Rate of Return (IRR), 80 5.4 IRR for a single project, 80 5.5 Incremental analysis, 87 5.6 Summary, 94 6 Benefit/Cost Ratio, Depreciation and Taxation 96 6.1 Introduction, 96 6.2 Costs, benefits and disbenefits, 96 6.3 Estimating the benefit/cost ratio for a single project, 97 6.4 Comparing mutually exclusive options using incremental benefit/cost ratios, 98 6.5 Depreciation, 99 6.6 Taxation, 102 6.7 Summary, 104 7 Cost-Benefit Analysis of Public Projects 107 7.1 Introduction, 107 7.2 Historical background to cost-benefit analysis, 108 7.3 Theoretical basis for cost-benefit analysis, 110 7.4 The procedure of cost-benefit analysis, 111 7.5 Identifying the main project options, 111 7.6 Identifying costs and benefits, 111 7.7 Placing valuations on all costs and benefits/disbenefits, 112 7.8 Assessing and comparing the cost-benefit performance of options, 115 7.9 Sensitivity analysis, 117 7.10 Final decision, 119 7.11 Case study: the cost-benefit analysis of a highway improvement project, 119 7.12 Case study: water supply scheme in a developing country, 128 7.13 Case study: cost-benefit analysis of sewer flooding alleviation, 135 7.14 Advantages and disadvantages of traditional cost-benefit analysis, 137 7.15 Techniques for valuing non-economic impacts, 138 7.16 Using cost-benefit analysis within different areas of engineering, 148 7.17 Summary, 151 8 Economic Analysis of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficient Projects 154 8.1 Introduction, 154 8.2 Policy context, 154 8.3 Renewable energy supply and energy efficient technologies, 157 8.4 Economic measures for renewable energy and energy efficient projects, 163 8.5 Estimating GHG emissions, 179 8.6 Uncertainty, 183 8.7 Case studies, 186 9 Value for Money in Construction 193 9.1 Definition of Value for Money, 193 9.2 Defining Value for Money in the context of a construction project, 194 9.3 Achieving Value for Money during construction, 194 9.4 Whole-life costing, 195 9.5 The concept of 'milestones', 196 9.6 Detailed description of the Value for Money framework, 197 9.7 Value for Money and design, 206 9.8 Is there a conflict between Sustainability and Value for Money, 211 9.9 The role of better managed construction in delivering projects on time and within budget, 213 10 Other Economic Analysis Techniques 216 10.1 Introduction, 216 10.2 Cost effectiveness, 216 10.3 The Planned Balance Sheet, 220 10.4 Hill's Goal Achievement Matrix, 227 10.5 Summary, 239 PART 2 NON-ECONOMIC-BASED PROJECT APPRAISAL TECHNIQUES 241 11 Multicriteria Analysis 243 11.1 Introduction, 243 11.2 Multicriteria evaluation models, 244 11.3 Simple non-compensatory methods, 246 11.4 Summary, 255 12 The Simple Additive Model 257 12.1 Background, 257 12.2 Introduction to the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) Method, 259 12.3 Sensitivity testing, 261 12.4 Probabilistic Additive Weighting, 264 12.5 Assigning weights to the decision criteria, 270 12.6 Checklists, 282 12.7 Case Study: Using the Simple Additive Weighting Model to choose the best transport strategy for a major urban centre, 292 12.8 Summary, 298 13 Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) 300 13.1 Introduction, 300 13.2 Hierarchies, 301 13.3 Establishing priorities within hierarchies, 301 13.4 Establishing and calculating priorities, 303 13.5 Relationship between AHP and the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) model, 316 13.6 Summary, 316 14 Concordance Techniques 318 14.1 Introduction, 318 14.2 Concordance Analysis, 319 14.3 PROMETHEE I and II, 321 14.4 ELECTRE I, 328 14.5 Other Concordance Models, 331 14.6 Summary, 339 15 Concluding Comments 343 15.1 Introduction, 343 15.2 Which project appraisal technique should one use? 343 15.3 Future challenges, 344 References, 345 Interest Factor Tables, 346 Index, 368