Project Management in Construction

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Gower Publishing, Ltd., Sep 28, 2012 - Business & Economics - 208 pages

The 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 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.

 

Selected pages

Contents

List of Figures
5
Project success or failure
11
Bar chart pros and cons
19
Precedence network for the workshop project
32
Making a start
45
Planning and scheduling phase 3 of the UFO shopping mall project
62
Capabilities of project management software
70
Choosing project management software
83
A contract matrix for a single project
96
Risk countermeasures
112
A brief introduction to project accounting
126
Scheduling cash outflows
143
Types of change
160
Handover timing and snagging lists
173
Index
187
Copyright

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Project Management in Construction
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About the author (2012)

Dennis Lock is an independent consultant and university lecturer who now specializes in project management. His long and varied industrial management experience has ranged from subminiature electronic assemblies to international mining projects and estates management. He has written or edited numerous books, over 25 of them for Gower, including for example The Gower Handbook of Management and the hugely successful Project Management.

Bibliographic information

TitleProject Management in Construction
The Leading Construction Series
AuthorMr Dennis Lock
ContributorsMr Richard Smith, Mr David Cooper
Editionrevised
PublisherGower Publishing, Ltd., 2012
ISBN1409457893, 9781409457893
Length208 pages
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