Author: John K. Briesemeister
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429943709
Size: 29.51 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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To many program, project, or construction managers, a complex project seems to be a labyrinth with many hidden dangers. This book is a guide through that labyrinth. It explains best practices and provides insight so they cannot only identify hidden dangers but also effectively manage the construction process to either mitigate or eliminate these risks. The book presents a systems-based approach to construction project management that can facilitate a greater understanding of the complexity inherent in large construction projects and how that complexity can be effectively managed. The systems approach permits the onsite construction project manager to take a complex construction project, break it down into manageable pieces, and ensure that all systems are in alignment with the original goal of the project. This approach combines industrial engineering, project management, and finance into a unified approach for effective management of complex construction projects, ranging from a power plant to a highway project. The book explains how to manage construction projects successfully through an approach based on the three following systems: Project Management System Work Management System Quality Management System The problem with complex programs and projects is that many managers are only equipped with a knowledge of project management. A system for construction is a collection of many processes effectively working together to produce a specific deliverable, which is usually defined in the program or project’s contract. This system has a series of specific inputs and outputs, which are what the customer expects from the company or companies performing the work. This book develops checklists based on these inputs and outputs, which managers can use when first arriving onsite, and provides a "nuts and bolts" approach for managing a complex construction project onsite. The author shares valuable lessons learned during a career of more than thirty years of working on various construction sites around the world. These lessons learned are filled with valuable information to aid readers become more effective as a program, project, or construction manager of complex construction projects.
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Author: Steve Rowlinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134494939
Size: 67.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The construction industry has a distressingly poor safety record, whether measured in absolute terms or alongside other industries. The level of construction safety in a country is influenced by factors such as variations in the labour forces, shifting economies, insurance rates, legal ramifications and the stage of technological development. Yet the problem is a world-wide one, and many of the ways of tackling it can be applied across countries. Effective tools include designing, preplanning, training, management commitment and the development of a safety culture. The introduction and operation of effective safety management systems represents a viable way forwards, but these systems are all too rarely implemented. How can this be done? Should we go back to prescriptive legislation? This book considers these questions by drawing together leading-edge research papers from the proceedings of an international conference conducted by a commission (W099) on Safety and Health on Construction Sites of CIB, the international council of building research organisations.
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Author: William J. Whitbeck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 44.44 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : College facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Author: Jose Perezgonzalez
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411631234
Size: 57.90 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 304
View: 2064
A Knowledge Management edition, this book models safety management by transforming a common procedural model into a functional systems representation. This model offers clear graphic lines of influence of it's different components on organisational safety. The downloadable version is color-coded, as are the relevant illustrations.
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Author: K. K. Chitkara
Publisher: Tata McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780074620625
Size: 72.49 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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The book approaches the subject of planning with a new perspective. It focuses on time planning, resources planning and planning of control systems. Alive with numerous examples from projects handled by the author, this book describes how to plan construction projects and execute them efficiently with minimum variation in schedules. The book is divided into four parts: Introduction: It covers nature of construction industry, highlights salient features of construction project management and outlines the approach for planning construction projects;Time Planning: It describes the methodology for breaking down project work into activities, developing workpackage networks, integrating these networks into project network plan and scheduling the network plan for finalising calendar-time oriented construction programs; Resources Planning: It includes methodology for planning manpower, construction materials, plant and machinery, and costs. Planning Control System: It deals with organising control system; methodology for controlling resources productivity, costs and time; codifying planning system and computerising planning and control functions.
