Construction Planning and Scheduling - Hardcover

Hinze, Jimmie W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130928615 ISBN 13: 9780130928610

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For undergraduate courses in Construction Planning and Scheduling, Construction Management, offered in the departments of Construction Technology and Architecture.

This text presents a straightforward and comprehensive introduction to all of the aspects and techniques of construction scheduling. It begins with a treatise on the fundamentals of scheduling and develops and discusses these topics while introducing other subjects. Construction Planning and Scheduling will serve as a future resource for various subjects in construction scheduling.

About this title

From the Back Cover

This straightforward text is unique in that it presents a comprehensive introduction to the techniques of construction scheduling as well as broad coverage on all major scheduling subjects.

Some of the key features include:

• Includes a detailed discussion of contract provisions and their relationship to construction scheduling.
• Presents a discussion of the effects of management decisions intended to benefit production on a construction schedule.
• Presents a treatise on short interval scheduling, also known as "look ahead" schedules, a subject vital to project success.
• Explains the concept of linear scheduling in easily understood and straightforward terms.
• Presents problems intended to be solved manually, but at the same time allows for the use of computer applications to solve these problems.
• Problems have been kept simple to allow students to focus on the key points under discussion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0130928615
• ISBN 13: 9780130928610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384