Construction Management Products

By Duncan Cartlidge

The second edition of the Construction Project Manager’s Pocket Book maintains its coverage of a broad range of project management skills, from technical expertise to leadership, negotiation, team building and communication. However, this new edition has been updated to include: Revisions to the…

Paperback – 2020-04-30 
Routledge
Routledge Pocket Books

Edited by Patricia Tzortzopoulos, Michail Kagioglou, Lauri Koskela

This book collates the main research developments around Lean Construction over the past 25 years with contributions from many seminal authors in the field. It takes stock of developments since the publication of Koskela’s (1992) Application of the new production philosophy to construction, and in…

Hardback – 2020-03-18 
Routledge

Edited by Anil Sawhney, Michael Riley, Javier Irizarry

Modelled on the concept of Industry 4.0, the idea of Construction 4.0 is based on a confluence of trends and technologies that promise to reshape the way built environment assets are designed, constructed, and operated. With the pervasive use of Building Information Modelling (BIM), lean…

Hardback – 2020-02-25 
Routledge

By Lincoln H. Forbes, Syed M Ahmed

Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction is the new and enhanced edition of the pioneering book Modern Construction by Lincoln H. Forbes and Syed M. Ahmed. This book provides a multi-faceted approach for applying lean methodologies to improve design and construction…

Hardback – 2020-02-12 
Routledge

Edited by Andre Manseau, George Seaden

How can innovation in the construction industry be strengthened? What instruments and approaches are being used by governments to promote it? What works and under what circumstances? These key questions have profound implications. This book presents a framework for the analysis of innovation models…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Hojjat Adeli, Asim Karim

Construction Scheduling, Cost Optimization and Management presents a general mathematical formula for the scheduling of construction projects. Using this formula, repetitive and non-repetitive tasks, work continuity considerations, multiple-crew strategies, and the effects of varying job conditions…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
CRC Press

By Andy Ricover, Jeffrey Delmon

Airport development is critical to economic growth and poverty reduction. This book will help decision-makers assess whether Public Private Partnerships (PPP) might be a viable option to meet their airport development requirements. It walks the reader through the airport PPP process,…

Hardback – 2019-12-13 
Routledge

By Asko Sarja

Traditionally the process of design has concentrated on the construction phase itself, with the primary objective being to optimise efficiency and minimise costs during development and construction. With the move towards a more sustainable development comes the need for this short-term approach to…

Paperback – 2019-12-02
CRC Press

Edited by Andrew W. Gale, Marilyn J. Davidson

With women in the UK construction industry constituting just thirteen per cent of the workforce and black and Asian workers numbering less that two per cent, despite representing more than six per cent of the working population, diversity is a problem that the construction industry needs…

Paperback – 2019-12-02
Routledge

By Hemanta Doloi, Sally Donovan

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with cultural and social values integral to rural…

Paperback – 2019-10-31
Routledge

By Len Holm, John E. Schaufelberger

Construction Superintendents: Essential Skills for the Next Generation is the first college-level textbook designed to prepare you to take on a site supervisor role on a complex jobsite. The book covers the responsibilities of superintendents in relation to the jobsite project management team, the…

Paperback – 2019-10-29
Routledge

By Carl J. Circo

This book chronicles how contract cases from the construction industry have influenced, solidified, refined and particularized U.S. contract law. The book’s central claim is that the construction industry experience has helped to contextualize U.S. contract law and, therefore, has encouraged the…

Hardback – 2019-10-15
Routledge
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