1st Edition

Operations Management for Construction

By Chris March Copyright 2009
224 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Students studying construction management and related subjects need to have a broad understanding of the major aspects of controlling the building processes. Operations Management for Construction is one of three textbooks ( Business Organisation , Operations Management and Finance Control ) written to systematically cover the field. Focusing on construction sites and operations which are... Read more

1. Site Organisation  2. Contract Planning  3. Work Study  4. Health and Safety  5. Waste Management  6. Stock Control and Management  7. Supply Chain Management  8. Quality Management

Biography

Chris March is a graduate from University of Manchester. He worked for John Laing Construction and later for John Laing Concrete where he became Factory Manager. On entering higher education he worked in both the UK and Hong Kong before joining the University of Salford becoming Senior Lecturer and then the Dean of the Faculty of the Environment. He is a former winner of the Council for Higher Education Construction Industry Partnership Award for Innovation.

"This is a useful student textbook and its systematic treatment would also make it useful as an extended checklist for practitioners."

- Architectural Science Review