Managing Construction Projects: A Guide to Processes and ProceduresA. D. Austen, R. H. Neale The principles advocated in this fully illustrated guide are based on internationally accepted processes and procedures. Particular emphasis has been placed on the need for careful planning in the early stages of a project, and the requirements for successful execution at all stages, from briefing through to commissioning, are clearly brought out. The needs of developing countries have received especial attention. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The managerial cycle | 2 |
Stages of a construction project | 3 |
The project management team | 4 |
Aspects of a construction project | 8 |
Participants at each stage of a building project | 9 |
Relationship between design influence and cost | 10 |
Designstage activities for building projects | 13 |
Requirements for funds | 56 |
Procurement | 59 |
The standard approach | 61 |
The early selection approach | 62 |
The divided contract approach | 63 |
The selection of consultants | 65 |
The tendering process | 66 |
Control | 73 |
ix | 17 |
Participants at each stage of a civil engineering project | 25 |
The briefing or report stage | 27 |
Designstage activities for civil engineering projects | 28 |
Organisation of management functions | 35 |
Steering committee and project management team | 38 |
Progress of a civil engineering project based on a possible water supply scheme | 46 |
Planning throughout the project | 49 |
A simple network planning diagram | 52 |
The control cycle | 74 |
Outline control plan | 76 |
The project budget | 78 |
As estimating accuracy increases deviation from goal de creases | 81 |
Health and safety | 93 |
Communication and reporting | 101 |
Planning techniques | 109 |
A Checklists | 131 |
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