Be a successful construction manager with the new Construction Management, 3rd Edition
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
- Appendix E: Arrow Notation Scheduling Calculations
- Appendix F: AGC Builder's Association of Chicago: Typical Job
Descriptions
- Appendix G: AGC Standard Subcontract Agreement
- Appendix H: Interest Tables
- Appendix I: Plans for Small Gas Station
- Appendix J: Site Reconnaissance Checklist
- Appendix K: Cumulative Normal Distribution Function Table
- Appendix L: WebCYCLONE Users Manual (online appendix)
- Bibliography
- Index
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