Construction Management

The construction professional has to be a "jack of all trades, and master of all." This text covers a wide range of subjects, reflecting the breadth of knowledge needed to understand the dynamics of this large and complex industry. This edition introduces extended coverage in the scheduling area to address more advanced and practice oriented procedures such as Start to Start, Finish to Finish, and similar relationship between activities in a network schedule.

ISBN 0470505931   Pages 384 ISBN13 9780470505939 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 648 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chichester Imprint John Wiley & Sons Ltd   Height (mm) 253 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 199 Publication date 08 Jul 2011   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 624.068   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1 History and Basic Concepts. Bridges and History. 1.1 Historical Perspective. 1.2 Great Captains of Construction. 1.3 Panama Canal. 1.4 Other Historic Projects. 1.5 Construction versus Manufacturing Processes. 1.6 Project Format. 1.7 Project Development. 1.8 Construction Technology and Construction Management. 1.9 Construction Management Is Resource Driven. 1.10 Construction Industry. 1.11 Structure of the Construction Industry. 1.12 Differing Approaches to Industry Breakdown. 1.13 Management Levels of Construction. Review Questions and Exercises. 2 Preparing the Bid Package. Online Plan Rooms. 2.1 Project Concept and Need. 2.2 Establishing Need. 2.3 Formal Need Evaluation. 2.4 Conceptual Drawings and Estimates. 2.5 Preliminary and Detail Design. 2.6 Notice To Bidders. 2.7 Bid Package. 2.8 General Conditions. 2.9 Supplementary Conditions. 2.10 Technical Specifications 2.11 Addenda. 2.12 The Estimate and the Decision to Bid. 2.13 Prequalification. 2.14 Subcontractor and Vendor Quotations/Contracts. 2.15 Bid Bond. 2.16 Performance and Payments Bonds. 2.17 Cost and Requirements for Bonds. Review Questions and Exercises. 3 Issues During Construction Phase. Project Rework Reduction. 3.1 Acceptance Period/Withdrawal. 3.2 Award of Contract/Notice to Proceed. 3.3 Contract Agreement 3.4 Time Extensions. 3.5 Change Orders. 3.6 Changed Conditions. 3.7 Value Engineering. 3.8 Suspension, Delay, or Interruption. 3.9 Liquidated Damages. 3.10 Progress Payments and Retainage. 3.11 Progress Reporting. 3.12 Acceptance and Final Payment. 3.13 Summary. Review Questions and Exercises. 4 Construction Contracts. Web-Based Contracts. 4.1 Contract Environment. 4.2 Process of Purchasing Construction. 4.3 Major Construction Contract Types. 4.4 Competitively Bid Contracts. 4.5 Stipulated-Sum Contracts. 4.6 Unit-Price Contracts. 4.7 Negotiated Contracts. 4.8 Project Delivery Methods. 4.9 Design-Build Contracts. 4.10 Design-Build in a Consortium Format. 4.11 Construction Management (CM) Contracts. 4.12 Construction Management At-Risk. 4.13 Comparing Project Delivery Methods. Review Questions and Exercises. 5 Legal Structure. Joint Venturing. 5.1 Types of Organization. 5.2 Legal Structure. 5.3 Proprietorship 5.4 Partnership. 5.5 Corporation. 5.6 Comparison of Legal Structures. Review Questions and Exercises. 6 Impact of Taxes. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Why Taxes? 6.3 Types of taxes. 6.4 Income Tax Systems. 6.5 Taxation of Businesses. 6.6 Business Deductions in General. 6.7 Taxable income: individuals. 6.8 Itemized deductions, standard deductions and personal exemptions. 6.8 The Tax Significance of Depreciation. 6.9 Marginal Tax Rates. 6.10 Tax credits. 6.11 Tax payroll Withholding. 6.12 Tax payment schedules 6.13 Marginal, average and effective tax rates. 6.14 Net Operating Losses. 6.15 Summary. Review Questions and Exercises. 7 Project Planning. Building Information Modeling. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Developing the Work Breakdown Structure. 7.3 A Work Breakdown Example. 7.4 Work Packages for the Gas Station Project. 7.5 Determining Sequence of Work Packages 7.6 Estimate Development and Cost Control Related to the WBS. 7.7 Role of Code of Accounts. 7.8 Summary. Review Questions and Exercises. 8 Project Scheduling. 4D Modeling. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Estimating activity durations. 8.3 Bar charts 8.4 Activity Precedence Diagrams. 8.5 Generalized relationships. 8.6 Overview of the CPM scheduling procedure. 8.7 Forward Pass (traditional relationships). 8.8 Backward Pass (traditional relationships). 8.9 Critical path. 8.10 Activity floats. 8.11 Scheduling the Small Garage project. 8.12 Generalized Relationship Scheduling Computations. 8.13 Working to Calendar Dates. 8.14 Summary. REVIEW QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES. 9 Scheduling -- PERT Networks and Linear Operations. Lean Construction. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 An Example PERT Network. 9.3 PERT Shortcomings. 9.4 L

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