Construction Management - Tapa dura

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 men––necessary to realize any construction project, within a construction environment of contracts, changing weather, varying conditions, and unforeseen events.

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.