Assessment
Guide to developing the project business case, Better business cases: for better outcomes, published by HM Treasury in 2018, suggests that ‘assessment’: ‘May refer to either an appraisal or an evaluation.’
Where an appraisal is: ‘…the process of defining objectives, examining options and weighing up the relevant costs, benefits, risks and uncertainties before a decision is made.’
And an evaluation is: ‘…the systematic assessment of an intervention, its design, implementation and resulting outcomes both during implementation and most importantly afterwards.’
In the construction industry, types of assessment might include:
- Climate change risk assessment.
- Community needs assessment.
- Delivery model assessment.
- Ecological impact assessment.
- Energy assessment.
- Environmental impact assessment.
- Facility condition assessment.
- Fire risk assessment.
- Flood risk assessment.
- Habitats regulations assessment.
- Landscape character assessment.
- Life-cycle assessment.
- Market health and capability assessment.
- Needs assessment.
- Noise at work assessment.
- Regulatory impact assessment.
- Residential visual amenity assessment.
- Risk assessment.
- Section 63 assessment.
- Strategic environmental assessment.
- Supplier assessment.
- Tender price assessment.
- Townscape character assessment.
- Transport assessment.
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