National Academies Press: OpenBook
« Previous: Appendix H: ACC Scope of Work for Customer Concept Document
Suggested Citation:"Appendix I: Biographies of Authors." National Research Council. 2003. Starting Smart: Key Practices for Developing Scopes of Work for Facility Projects. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10870.
×
Page 85

Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.

I Biographies of Authors G. Edward Gibson, fir., is a professor of civil engineering and the Austin Industries endowed faculty fellow in the construction engineering and project management program at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Auburn University in 1990 and an M.B.A. from the University of Dallas in 1987. His research interests include organizational change, preproject planning, construction productivity, electronic data management, and automation and robotics. In 1996 he received the Construction Industry Institute's Out- standing Researcher Award for his pioneering work in preproject planning. He is an author or a coauthor of numerous articles and reports on this subject. Among these documents are CII's Pre-Project Planning Handbook, Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) Industrial Projects, and Project Definition Rating Index (PDRI) Building Projects. In 2002 he received the Engineering Education Excellence Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers for his leadership in education, research, and service. Dr. Gibson currently serves as associate chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering in charge of the architectural engineering program at the University of Texas. He has developed several CII education modules for continuing education and has taught over 130 short courses to industry on such topics as setting objectives, team alignment, continuous improvement, preproject planning, and materials management. Dr. Gibson has consulted with many organizations such as NASA, the Smithsonian Institution, the General Services Administration, De- partment of State, the Texas Department of Transportation, 3M, Broadwing, BECK Group, DuPont, Ontario Power Generation, Hensel Phelps, and Union Carbide. He also served on a National Research Council committee investigating project management practices at the U.S. Department of Energy. Dr. Gibson has several years of industry experience and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas. Michael P. Pappas is a project management consultant and a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering at the Univer- sity of Texas, Austin. He has 10 years of industry experience managing domestic and international construction projects and facilities programs as a U. S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps officer and with an Engineering News Record Top 300 design firm. Over the past four years he has worked as a project management consultant, analyzing planning, cost, schedule, and delay data for process improvement programs and construction dispute resolution. Mr. Pappas has a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Missouri, Rolla, and an M.S.E. in civil engineering from the University of Texas, Austin. He is a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers and is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Missouri. 85

Next: Appendix J: Acronyms »
Starting Smart: Key Practices for Developing Scopes of Work for Facility Projects Get This Book
×
Buy Paperback | $29.00 Buy Ebook | $23.99
MyNAP members save 10% online.
Login or Register to save!
Download Free PDF

Although most federal facilities projects are successfully completed (i.e., they reasonably meet the agency's requirements and expectations), the perception is that development of the scope of work for design for these projects is challenging and in some cases poorly performed. Based on this perception, a study was commissioned by the Federal Facilities Council (FFC) of the National Research Council to identify the elements that should be included in a scope of work for design to help ensure that the resulting facility is one that supports the fulfillment of a federal agency's program or mission. Its objectives also included identifying key practices for developing effective scopes of work for design involving new construction or major renovation projects and identifying key practices for matching the scope of work with the acquisition strategy, given a range of project delivery systems and contract methods.

  1. ×

    Welcome to OpenBook!

    You're looking at OpenBook, NAP.edu's online reading room since 1999. Based on feedback from you, our users, we've made some improvements that make it easier than ever to read thousands of publications on our website.

    Do you want to take a quick tour of the OpenBook's features?

    No Thanks Take a Tour »
  2. ×

    Show this book's table of contents, where you can jump to any chapter by name.

    « Back Next »
  3. ×

    ...or use these buttons to go back to the previous chapter or skip to the next one.

    « Back Next »
  4. ×

    Jump up to the previous page or down to the next one. Also, you can type in a page number and press Enter to go directly to that page in the book.

    « Back Next »
  5. ×

    To search the entire text of this book, type in your search term here and press Enter.

    « Back Next »
  6. ×

    Share a link to this book page on your preferred social network or via email.

    « Back Next »
  7. ×

    View our suggested citation for this chapter.

    « Back Next »
  8. ×

    Ready to take your reading offline? Click here to buy this book in print or download it as a free PDF, if available.

    « Back Next »
Stay Connected!