Introduction to Construction Management

✍ Scribed by Fred Sherratt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 477
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduction to Construction Management, Second Edition, is the beginner’s guide to key concepts, terms, processes and practices associated with modern construction management. The new edition has been fully updated with new data, case studies and enhancements and remains the most practical and accessible book on the subject available. Significant new topics have been added including construction ethics, coverage of mental health and wellbeing in the industry, project delivery and Construction 4.0, to make this the most cutting-edge book available for students on construction and engineering management courses.

Supported by diagrams, illustrations and case studies, the book starts with a general introduction to the industry and covers the relevant management theory before providing applied coverage of:

• Production management

• Commercial management

• Quality management

• Health and Safety management

• Environmental management

This is the most approachable text available for anyone starting to learn about construction management at any level.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 The construction industry
Introduction
1.1 What is the ‘construction industry’?
1.2 Construction projects
1.2.1 What starts a construction project?
1.2.2 How is construction work allocated?
1.2.3 How are construction projects organised?
1.2.4 Who forms the construction project team?
1.3 Construction people
1.3.1 Construction professions
1.3.2 Construction trades
1.4 Construction bodies
1.4.1 Construction Leadership Council
1.4.2 Construction Industry Council
1.4.3 Build UK
1.4.4 Constructing Excellence
1.5 The construction industry: summary
Further reading and discussion
Part 2 Construction management in theory
Introduction
2.1 What is management?
2.2 Management functions: what do managers do?
2.2.1 Forecasting
2.2.2 Planning
2.2.3 Organising and coordinating
2.2.4 Commanding
2.2.5 Controlling
2.2.6 How important are these functions for a construction manager?
2.3 Principles of management: how do managers do it?
2.4 Managing people: the key to successful management?
2.4.1 Communication
2.4.2 Motivation
2.4.3 Leadership
2.4.4 Teamwork
2.4.5 Managing people in construction: summary
2.5 What is construction management?
2.6 Construction management in theory: summary
Further reading and discussion
Part 3 Construction management in practice
Introduction
3.1 Production planning and control
3.1.1 Production parameters
3.1.2 Where do these production parameters come from?
3.1.3 Production planning
3.1.4 Effective production planning
3.1.5 Production control
3.1.6 Production planning and control: summary
3.2 Site management
3.2.1 Introduction
3.2.2 Legislative requirements
3.2.3 Site layout
3.2.4 Being a good neighbour
3.2.5 Site management control
3.2.6 Site management: summary
3.3 Time management
3.3.1 Introduction
3.3.2 Producing a construction programme
3.3.3 Establishing key dates and milestones
3.3.4 Establishing key activities
3.3.5 Establishing durations
3.3.6 Allocating resources
3.3.7 Establishing the sequence
3.3.8 Applying logic
3.3.9 Controlling time: monitoring the programme
3.3.10 Time management: summary
3.4 Cost management
3.4.1 Introduction
3.4.2 Client cost planning
3.4.3 Contractor cost planning
3.4.4 Client cost control
3.4.5 Contractor cost control
3.4.6 End-of-contract reconciliations as a form of cost control
3.4.7 Cash flow
3.4.8 Cost management: summary
3.5 Quality management
3.5.1 Introduction
3.5.2 What is quality?
3.5.3 Defining quality management
3.5.4 Quality management standards
3.5.5 Managing quality production on site: planning and control
3.5.6 Benefits of quality management
3.5.7 Quality management: summary
3.6 Health and safety management
3.6.1 Introduction: Kieron's story
3.6.2 The construction industry's health and safety profile
3.6.3 A safe industry?
3.6.4 A healthy industry?
3.6.5 How is health and safety managed?
3.6.6 What happened to Kieron?
3.6.7 Health and safety management: summary
3.7 Mental health and wellbeing management
3.7.1 Introduction
3.7.2 Why mental health and wellbeing?
3.7.3 The scale of the problem in construction
3.7.4 What causes poor mental health and wellbeing in construction?
3.7.5 UK legal obligations for mental health and wellbeing
3.7.6 Managing mental health and wellbeing in construction
3.7.7 What can construction managers do to help?
3.7.8 Mental Health and wellbeing management: summary
3.8 Environmental management
3.8.1 Introduction
3.8.2 What is sustainability?
3.8.3 Sustainability and construction
3.8.4 A sustainable construction industry for the future
3.8.5 What is environmental management?
3.8.6 Environmental management tools
3.8.7 Environmental management on site
3.8.8 Corporate social responsibility
3.8.9 Environmental management: summary
3.9 Construction management in practice: summary
Further reading
Part 4 New directions in construction management
Introduction
4.1 Ambitions for change
4.1.1 Industry reviews
4.1.2 Government strategies and more
4.1.3 Barriers to change
4.2 Project delivery
4.2.1 Whole life-cycle construction
4.2.2 Project delivery as a process
4.2.3 Integrated project delivery
4.2.4 Integrated supply chains
4.2.5 Off-site construction
4.2.6 Challenges for project delivery
4.3 Construction 4.0
4.3.1 On and off-site technologies
4.3.2 Design technologies
4.3.3 Digital construction management
4.3.4 Challenges for Construction 4.0
4.3.5 The future of Construction 4.0
4.4 The ethical construction manager
4.4.1 Introduction
4.4.2 Ethical and unethical behaviour
4.4.3 Ethics and the law
4.4.4 Four case studies: ethical challenges in construction
4.4.5 How to be an ethical construction manager
4.5 The changing role of the construction manager
4.6 New directions in construction management: summary
Further reading and discussion
Introduction to Construction Management: summary
Sources
Glossary of key terms
Appendix
Suggested exercise solutions
Blank programme template
Blank risk assessment template
Index