Essentials of Construction Planning and Scheduling
Overview
Essentials of Construction Planning and Scheduling is a practical handbook on the planning of construction projects, from tender through to project completion. The book provides essential tools to plan a project and communicate that plan to the whole project team to enable all team members to see what should be happening at every stage of a project.
Coverage includes:
- How to review project information to break the works down to areas and individual tasks, estimate durations, and develop the sequence
- Good practice in preparing and managing a contract programme
- Ways of supplementing the programme to effectively communicate a plan to the whole project team
- Planning the logistics that are key to supporting delivery, and assessing the number of cranes and hoists required to deliver the plan
- How to monitor the plan, make progress assessments, and use that knowledge to deliver the programme
- How the site team can effectively manage change, delay and disruption.
Based on over 40 years' professional experience in this area, Essentials of Construction Planning and Scheduling is a hands-on and engaging handbook with colour diagrams and real-life examples throughout. The book will be a core reference for practitioners in this area, including planners, project managers and commercial managers, and a useful guide for clients, designers, foremen and supervisors, as well as students of this subject.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780727765925
- ISBN-10: 0727765922
- Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd
- Publish Date: June 2021
- Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 200
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