Project Management for Facility Constructions: A Guide for Engineers and Architects

✍ Scribed by Alberto De Marco (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 198
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes concepts, methods and practical techniques for managing projects to develop constructed facilities in the fields of oil & gas, power, infrastructure, architecture and the commercial building industries.
It is addressed to a broad range of professionals willing to improve their management skills and designed to help newcomers to the engineering and construction industry understand how to apply project management to field practice. Also, it makes project management disciplines accessible to experts in technical areas of engineering and construction.
In education, this text is suitable for undergraduate and graduate classes in architecture, engineering and construction management, as well as for specialist and professional courses in project management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Multiple-Project Management....Pages 7-13
Contract Organization....Pages 15-42
Contract AdministrationContract Administration ....Pages 43-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Project Management OrganizationOrganization ....Pages 57-66
Project InformationInformation and Communications Management....Pages 67-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Project FeasibilityFeasibility ....Pages 75-87
Planning and Scheduling....Pages 89-117
Project Monitoring and Control....Pages 119-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
ProcurementProcurement Management....Pages 141-145
Site ManagementSite Management ....Pages 147-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Decision Making....Pages 153-161
Probabilistic SchedulingProbabilistic Scheduling ....Pages 163-174
Risk ManagementRisk Management ....Pages 175-183
Back Matter....Pages 185-189

✦ Subjects

Construction Management; Management/Business for Professionals