1st Edition
Building Decisions How Choosing by Advantages Drives Project Success
Foreword by Glenn Ballard
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: What is a Decision?
Chapter 2: Why Decisions Do Not Stick
Chapter 3: Focus on Value and Cost
Chapter 4: Changing Bad Habits
Chapter 5: CBA, A Sound Decision-making Method
Chapter 6: CBA Tabular Method: Sustainable Museum Case Study
Chapter 7: Not all Decision-making Methods are Created Equal
Chapter 8: CBA and the Tendering Procedure of Construction Projects
Chapter 9: Building a Collaborative Decision-making Process
Chapter 10: Decisions and Innovations for our Future
Chapter 11: How to Build Better Decisions
Glossary
Biography
Paz Arroyo is a global leader in Lean Construction. She earned her PhD at UC Berkeley, focusing on collaborative decision-making. She has tested the effectiveness of Choosing By Advantages (CBA) in construction projects, publishing widely on the topic. As a Lean and Quality leader for a major international contractor, she develops strategies to improve the construction industry.
Annett Schöttle earned her PhD at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), Germany, on requirements and incentives to create a collaborative Lean project delivery system for capital projects. She works as an independent Lean consultant with extensive experience in megaprojects, helping teams collaborate to develop, align, and optimize production planning from project start to commissioning, and implementing CBA for better decision-making in various settings.
Randi Christensen is an engineer by background and earned her PhD at Aalborg University, Denmark, focusing on how we learn from project to project. As Sustainability Director at an international engineering consultancy, her focus is on decision-making as this is the key point where we can drive the projects in a more sustainable direction by including multiple voices and pools of knowledge.
