The Management of Marine Design by S. Erichsen
This work provides a guide to all stages of the design task-office organization staffing, market evaluation, design attitudes and tactics, generation of ideas, assessment of cost, estimating weights and volumes, contracts, quality assessment, the implementation of designs and report writing. The book is aimed at managers, naval architects and designers and was prepared with the support of the National Maritime Research Committee of the Royal Norwegian Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.