Construction Project Management

by Frederick E. Gould

This book focuses on the collaborative effort required to complete any public or private construction project, providing the construction professional with the skills needed to work with and alongside the owner representative, the designer, and within the public's eye. It explains in detail the project elements and environment, and the responsibilities of the varied project professionals, and follows in detail the chronology of a project. Estimating, scheduling, control and administrative functions of a project are covered, and separate chapters on Leadership and Management, Construction Law, and Safety and Health are included. For construction professionals, including project managers, architects, project owners and their representatives, civil engineers, and practitioners who are looking for an understanding of the changes in their industry and new tools and management methods available for dealing with those changes.

Genres: Construction

426 pages, Hardcover

First published November 29, 1999

Reviews

[Mohammed الصوفي · Rating 5 out of 5]

my master thesis is going to be about construction project management, and my tutor gave me this book in order to know the background about this industry. I found it very useful and written with an easy language (not extremely easy) but understandable through almost all the aspects.

[Ruth Sanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really appreciated the practical scheduling and risk-management advice in this book- it’s a great primer for leading real projects. For readers wanting a modern take on tools and workflows, I also recommend the brief overview BIM advantages in construction which helped me understand how model-based coordination ties into the book’s methods.

[R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great overview of the industry and all the major points. I wasn't aware how much I'd been picking up and knew already about the industry until I began to read this textbook and apparently on the job training for the last few years has taught me quite a bit!

This is a great entry level textbook although I'm sure it's not in use any more as it's a few years old (2003) and has probably been superceded at this point. I managed to pick it up on Amazon used for around $5 total I think.

This is geared more towards Construction Project Managers for large job sites and construction corporations, not necessarily smaller scale contractors. There may be some value in it for them in order to better understand the overall big picture if they happen to work as subcontractors on large sites though.

[Joe Cole · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got it in good price. It is designed to give the reader important information of construction management in a very basic way. Good textbook