Building Decisions: How Choosing by Advantages Drives Project Success [Hardcover]

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

This book presents a framework and practical guidelines for everyday decision-making. The authors introduce the reader to a specific decision-making system, Choosing by Advantages (CBA).

Decision-making is critical. Leaders make decisions daily, often hyper-focusing on cost at the expense of value for society and with negative impacts on the environment and the climate. Project teams are poorly equipped to make decisions and prefer to avoid conflicts instead of having a healthy discussion based on different perspectives. We need to learn ways of making decisions that give better outcomes.

Building Decisions presents a framework and practical guidelines for everyday decision-making. The authors introduce the reader to a specific decision-making system, Choosing By Advantages (CBA), and explain the CBA Tabular decision-making method. Providing detailed explanations using relatable examples such as choosing a phone and renovating a kitchen, the book also uses case studies of large construction projects from the authors professional l#8