Be a successful construction manager with the new Construction Management, 3rd Edition
Item #: 280-3004-05
ISBN: 0-471-66173-2
ISBN13: 978-0-471-66173-3
Author: Daniel W. Halpin Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Format: Hardcover
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Get the skills and knowledge you need to be a successful construction manager
Thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent developments in industry practice,
the Third Edition of Halpin's Construction Management introduces you to the
complex business of developing and constructing a major facility or structure.
The book presents a detailed look into the massive industry of construction and
the skills needed to be a successful construction manager. You'll learn how to
carefully and professionally manage the resources--money, machines, material,
and people necessary to realize any construction project, within a construction
environment of contracts, changing weather, varying conditions, and unforeseen
events. 416 pp.
Features:
Includes new information on value engineering, earned value, product
delivery systems, and the difference between purchasing construction and
purchasing manufactured speculative products.
New material in Chapter 6 covers the ideas of scope of work, defining the
project, and how to break the project into work packages in the context of a
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
The Project Scheduling chapter (Chapter 7) uses the concept of work
packaging to develop the activities in the network schedules, and opens with
a discussion of precedence notation.
Web CYCLONE (available on the book's companion site) allows you to
simulate construction operations.
Covers broad concepts of construction management (e.g. safety, labor
relations, company organization, estimation, etc.).
Chapters on estimating and cost control and analysis of construction
operations provide relevant information for actual practice.
Applies the physical systems approach to construction management.
Presents the fascinating historical background of construction as a
profession and discipline.
Construction Management, 3rd Edition - Table of Contents:
History and Basic Concepts
Preparing the Bid Package
Issues During Construction Phase
Construction Contracts
Legal Structure
Project Planning
Project Scheduling
Scheduling – PERT Networks and Linear Operations
Project Cash Flow
Project Funding
Equipment Ownership
Equipment Productivity
Estimating Process
Construction Labor
Cost Control
Materials Management
Safety
Construction Operations (online chapter)
Appendix A: Typical Considerations Affecting the Decision to Bid
Appendix B: Performance and Payment Bond Forms
Appendix C: Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Contractor on the
Basis of a Stipulated Price
Appendix D: Standard Form of Agreement between Owner and Contractor on the
Basis of Cost-Plus
Construction Management, 3rd Edition
