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Construction Project Management-Professional Edition Professional Edition
Author(s): Frederick Gould (Author), Nancy Joyce (Author)
- Publisher: Pearson
- Publication Date: 15 May 2001
- Edition: Professional
- Language: English
- Print length: 409 pages
- ISBN-10: 0130922803
- ISBN-13: 9780130922809
Book Description
For courses in Construction Management.
This first edition text provides readers with a complete overview of the construction industry. While looking at recent innovations in technology and process, it explores the people that are part of the industry and how they work together, as well as the issues that bind them together and keep them apart. It includes information about construction law, contract and deliver types, and issues of dispute.
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From the Back Cover
To be successful in today’s construction environment, project managers must utilize essential leadership, communication, and motivational skills. This book emphasizes these attributes as it systematically follows the construction process from beginning to end. Among topics examined are the roles of project participants, the bid process, planning, scheduling, estimating, controlling the project, safety issues, and legal and regulatory issues. Sidebars, authored by industry leaders, examine actual incidents and provide insights into the subject matter.
This book will be invaluable to superintendents, estimators, and field managers, as well as project managers.
Features of Construction Project Management, Professional Edition, include:
- Entire chapters devoted to leadership and construction law
- Comprehensive presentation of content from the project owner’s viewpoint, as well as the contractor’s perspective
- Coverage of conflict resolution
