Readings | Project Management (Spring 2009)

Recommended readings are listed by subject area. Students are not required to read the recommended material but are encouraged to do so if they are interested in further study.

Required Textbook

Hendrickson, Chris, and Tung Au. Project Management for Construction. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989. ISBN: 9780137312665.

This textbook is available online for free viewing.

Recommended Readings for Project Finance

Yescombe, E. R. Principles of Project Finance. New York, NY: Academic Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780127708515.

Grimsey, Darrin, and Mervyn K. Lewis. Public Private Partnerships: The World Revolution in Infrastructure Provision and Project Finance. London, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 9781847202260.

Esty, Benjamin C. Modern Project Finance: A Casebook. New York, NY: Wiley, 2008. ISBN: 9780471434252.

Recommended Readings for Project Evaluation

Newnan, Donald G., Jerome P. Lavelle, and Ted G. Eschenbach. Engineering Economic Analysis. 8th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780195151527.

Park, Chan S. Contemporary Engineering Economics. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. ISBN: 9788120321434.

Mishan, E. J. Cost-Benefit Analysis. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1976. ISBN: 9780275565305.

Ray, Anandarup. Cost-Benefit Analysis: Issues and Methodologies. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780801830693.

Ward, William A., Barry J. Deren, and Emmanuel H. D'Silva. The Economics of Project Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide (EDI Technical Materials). Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1991. ISBN: 9780821317518.

Recommended Readings for Organization

Buy at MIT Press Miller, Roger, and Donald Lessard. The Strategic Management of Large Engineering Projects. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262122368.

Morris, Peter W. G. The Management of Projects. London, UK: Thomas Telford Books, 1994. ISBN: 9780727716934.

Meredith, Jack R., and Samuel J. Mantel, Jr. Project Management: A Managerial Approach. 6th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley, 2005. ISBN: 9780471715375.

Levy, Sidney. Project Management in Construction. 5th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006. ISBN: 9780071464178.

Oberlender, Garold. Project Management for Engineering and Construction. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1993. ISBN: 9780070481503.

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