Front-end of Projects

The course is about the front-end of projects. The participants learn about methods for analysis of sustainability and economy. Core topics are concept development, project evaluation, project sustainability, uncertainty analyses, cost estimation, profitability analyses, cost development, project governance and early warning signs. The course content is based on research.

Knowledge: The candidate has basic knowledge about how decisions in the front-end impact sustainability and economics of projects.

Skills: The candidate can use methods for analyzing projects in the front end and understands how the analyses should impact decisions.

General competence: The candidate understands how decisions in the front-end impact sustainability and economics of projects.

Lectures and mandatory exercises. The lectures are in English, while the curriculum is partly in Norwegian.