This month’s DBIA Book Club selection explores the public sector influence in the formation of the public-private partnerships. The relationship formed between public and private entities has enhanced the way projects are developed and delivered: The public sector benefits from tapping into the resources available to the private sector and the private sector benefits form contracting and gaining experience in working with public agencies. This symbiosis provides a more profitable and timely delivery of assigned projects.
Design-build professionals can enhance their knowledge of the “three Ps” by reading this month’s book selections. Each explores the development and implementation of the public-private partnerships and gives examples of how different projects can benefit from this relationship.
Achieving Public-Private Partnership in the Transport Sector
By Benjamin Perez
This title is also a recommended read by the U.S. Highway Administration for the professionals who wish to familiarize themselves with Public-Private Partnerships. The book reviews current trends in transport partnerships and provides detailed case studies of three recent partnership projects:
- The M1/M15 Motorway in Western Hungary, a 56.3-kilometer, $330 million (U.S.) facility;
- The Vasco da Gama Bridge, a 12.3-kilometer, US $1.0 billion bridge in Lisbon, Portugal;
- and The Bangkok Mass Transit System, a 23.7-kilometer, US $1.5 billion elevated rail mass transit system in the Thai capital.
Full of interviews with private sector investors, financial advisers, bankers, construction companies, government officials, development bank staff, academicians, and journalists, together with the review of primary project documentation and other written materials, this book is essential for those wanting to enter the transport sector.
Presenting a case of failure, a case of success and one whose fate is undetermined, the projects offer rich comparisons. Each has been shaped by differing cultural expectations and economic conditions.
They also have benefited from the commitment of creative supporters and been subjected to changing political winds.
Item # 5002
Member Price $23.00
Non-Member Price $24.95
Design-Build Project Delivery
By Sidney Levy
As an insightful look at the public-private partnership, along with a familiarization of design-build, Sidney Levy’s book illustrates why design-build is now widely recognized as perhaps the most profitable method of project delivery for non-residential construction. Design-Build Project Delivery offers real-world examples and advice from a wide variety of industry experts on every aspect of design-build project delivery. Complete with checklists and forms, this is the most practical and comprehensive resource on design-build project delivery available.
Item # 5018
Member Price $60.00
Non-Member Price $65.00
Public Private Partnerships — Managing Risks and Opportunities
Edited By Akintola Akintoye, Matthias Beck and Cliff Hardcastle
This book should familiarize researchers and construction professionals working with public private partnerships with the issues involved in the planning, implementation and day-to-day management of the projects. It will show how current risk management methods can help the complex process of managing procurement via such partnerships.
The chapters — most written by a practitioner/academic partnership — are organized around best value concepts and use the findings of a major research project investigating risk assessment and management in private finance initiative projects. The analysis of this research will be supplemented with contributions by leading international experts from Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore, covering hospitals, schools, waste management and housing to exemplify best practice in PPP-based procurement.
Item # 5053
Member Price $179.54
Non-Member Price $224.42
Interested in a particular book but not sure where to find it? Contact Patricia Carpio at pcarpio@dbia.org.