Project Management for the Built Environment: Study Notes

✍ Scribed by Low Sui Pheng (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 211
Series: Management in the Built Environment
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the fundamentals of project management as applied in the built environment and more specifically for the construction industry. It presents the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) using practical examples to show how various project management principles and concepts can be applied in practice. Providing study notes for students and aspiring project management professionals in the construction industry, each of the 13 chapters includes a set of comprehensive revision questions that allow readers to reflect on what they have learned. The book offers an introduction to what project management is all about as well as the project life cycles, stakeholders and organizations involved. It explains the project management processes and how these processes are applied in integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk and procurement management. It concludes with ethics and professional conduct in the project management profession.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Introduction to Project Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 1-14
Project Life Cycles, Stakeholders and Organizations (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 15-26
Project Management Processes (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 27-46
Project Integration Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 47-61
Project Scope Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 63-77
Project Time Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 79-96
Project Cost Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 97-112
Project Quality Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 113-125
Project Human Resource Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 127-142
Project Communications Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 143-157
Project Risk Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 159-176
Project Procurement Management (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 177-193
Project Ethics and Professional Conduct (Low Sui Pheng)....Pages 195-201
Back Matter ....Pages 203-205

✦ Subjects

Construction Management

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