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    Open Book Cost Management
    Ebook100 pages30 minutes

    Open Book Cost Management

    By Hugh Raven

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    About this ebook

    This book provides a unique guide to open book cost management in the construction industry and step-by-step experience and advice in the implementation of open book in the live environment. Whilst it is drawn from the Author’s experience predominantly in the affordable housing sector, it provides a useful reference document for open book in other sectors where the same basic principles apply.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrown Dog
    Release dateMar 30, 2015
    ISBN9781785450211
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      I liked this book as it is complying with the concept of "Point of Total Assumption" that relies on OpenBook concept to share savings/cost overruns.