Project Management in ConstructionThe one thing that all well-run, profitable construction projects have in common is that they benefit from good project managers. People who have the skills to plan the project, manage it and keep it on track whenever tight timescales, costs, people or other difficulties threaten to derail it. The good news is that there is no secret art to project management. These are the skills that any manager can learn and use. Project Management in Construction is a practical, easy-to-read guide to defining, organizing, planning and executing a construction project so that it is completed to the satisfaction of the principal stakeholders. The book is part of the Leading Construction Series co-published by Gower and the CITB-ConstructionSkills. The Leading Construction Series is part of a CITB-ConstructionSkills initiative to develop management skills within the industry. The books in this series are designed to be essentially practical, with a firm grounding in the construction industry. |
Contents
Managing a very tiny project with simple logic and common sense | 10 |
Bar chart pros and cons | 19 |
Practical ways of sketching precedence network diagrams | 25 |
Precedence network for the workshop project | 32 |
Dangles and loops | 38 |
Do we really need to schedule any resources? | 44 |
Work breakdown structure WBS | 52 |
Planning and scheduling phase 3 of the UFO shopping mall project | 62 |
A contract matrix for a single project | 96 |
Risk countermeasures | 112 |
Controlling Project Costs | 125 |
Cost control | 138 |
Managing progress in a larger organization | 152 |
Types of change | 160 |
Handover timing and snagging lists | 173 |
| 187 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
allow analysis bar chart base concrete below-the-line breakdown structure budget building calculations cash flow cash outflow chance of happening changes client column construction projects contract matrix contract variation cost control cost estimates cost reports critical path network daywork sheets earned value electrical engineer equipment example expected finish FMEA formwork Gantt chart Handover home office ID codes installation labour large projects latest permissible main contractor managing contractor materials matrix organization meeting method Microsoft Project 2000 payment person planner problems programs progress project accountant project costs project management software project network project organization project team purchase order purchasing agent quantity surveyors resource scheduling result Risk Management roof sheets shopping mall project shown in Figure small projects spreadsheet subcontractors suppliers task boxes task list timesheet UFO shopping mall usually window frame workshop project Write Chapter Yes Yes
Popular passages
Page 185 - Burke, Rory ( 1 999), Project Management: Planning and Control, 3rd edn, Chichester: Wiley. Chapman, CB and Ward, SA (1997), Project Risk Management: Processes, Techniques and Insights, Chichester: Wiley. Chapman, CB and Ward, SA (2002), Managing Project Risk and Uncertainty, Chichester: Wiley.
References to this book
Modern Construction Management Frank Harris,Ronald McCaffer,Francis Edum-Fotwe No preview available - 2006 |