Project Management in Construction (McGraw-Hill Professional Engineering) - Hardcover

Levy, Sidney M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071342303 ISBN 13: 9780071342308

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1999

Synopsis

The third edition of this text offers a pragmatic approach to project management for small- to medium-sized construction companies. It details new developments in construction contracts and claims/dispute resolution, as well as describing new design build strategies and advances in software.

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From the Back Cover:

Updates: New approaches to claims and dispute resolution; make expansion of design-build; computerized cost control and scheduling; 1997 AIA contract revisions; OSHA safety regulation changes; benchmarking financial information. Get built-in profits and business success. This money-saving, idea-packed, and tip-filled book shows you step-by-step how to make construction contracting consistently profitable, successful by any standard, and hassle-free. Now totally up-to-date, Project Management in Construction, Third Edition, helps you with every aspect of the job, from writing initial contracts to complying with OSHA regulations. Offering an A-to-Z plan for the contractor or project manager, veteran construction project manager Sidney M. Levy shows you how to: ensure that contracts represent your company's real commitments; estimate and buy out the job to lock in good profits; monitor and control ongoing costs; get and stay on top of schedules; deliver the quality that generates repeat business; develop a cost-effective safety program; bulletproof your legal position with solid documentation; defEND against unwarranted claims and pursue justifiable ones. This edition of Sidney Levy's Project Management in Construction gives you the benefit of the author's 40 years' experience in managing construction projects. Brimming with bonus tips on effective project management in the rehabilitation of older buildings, lucrative design-build scenarios, and a myriad of dollar-saving details, this book is the construction manager's most trusted tool.

About the Author:

Sidney M. Levy for many years was senior vice president of a widely respected development and general contracting firm in Connecticut. Now the owner of his own construction consulting business in Baltimore, Maryland, he has worked in construction project management for more than 40 years. In this book, based on his experience, he shares the business and management tools that contractors and construction project managers need to succeed.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0071342303
• ISBN 13: 9780071342308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416