Construction Project ManagementThe 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. |
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Contents
I | 1 |
II | 3 |
III | 35 |
IV | 69 |
V | 71 |
VI | 103 |
VII | 147 |
VIII | 180 |
XIII | 314 |
XIV | 341 |
XV | 366 |
XVI | 391 |
XVII | 393 |
XVIII | 419 |
XIX | 439 |
XX | 470 |
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2000 Housing Units accounting activity duration actual analysis assessed bar chart bill of quantities building Chapter client completion concrete concrete mixers construction projects contract contractor cost control cost variance cranes crashing critical activities critical path depreciation developing direct cost Economic Order Quantity engine equipment estimation event example Excavation execution expenses factor Finishes fixed float forecasts Formwork Foundation functions hourly Housing Units Project HVAC ideal output indirect input inventory labour cost Labour rate line of balance manpower materials cost method methodology monitoring operating overheads package performance plant procurement production cost progress project management project network project plan pumping quantity raft Rebar responsibility centres schedule scrapers shown in Exhibit slab soil specifications structure sub-project Table task techniques types updated wastage weeks work-breakdown work-package workers
Bibliographic information
| Title | Construction Project Management Construction Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Controlling |
| Author | K. K. Chitkara |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0074620622, 9780074620625 |
| Length | 558 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |