Management Techniques Applied to the Construction Industry

Now in its 5th edition, this well established text first examines individual management techniques and then demonstrates these in practice, via a large new section of case studies based on actual building projects. This edition also features a revised section on costing and a new set of exercises for students.

General introduction and quality assurance; Management Techniques - Planning generally; Bar charts; Project network techniques; Programming for repetitive construction generally; Sequence studies; Line of balance technique; Work study; Budgetary and cost control; Case Studies; Exercises