Project Management In Construction - Softcover

WALKER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0632025174 ISBN 13: 9780632025176

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1991

Synopsis

This book is designed to provoke those involved in the process of managing construction projects to reconsider, analyze and improve the effectiveness of them. Its basis lies in the systems approach to management and it distils the ideas central to such thinking and applies them to construction. It is concerned particularly with the integration of the contibutors to the process and the way in which decisions are made. The client's role in this process is distinguished and examined. Against this backcloth a variety of organizational forms available for the implementation and management of construction projects are considered in terms of their contribution to the fufilment of the clients objectives.

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Review

"There is no doubt that this work is at the forefront of project management today......It takes project management theory onto other plane better populated by academics and researchers, its use to the pragmatic project Manager in the field may be somewhat limited" Ian Cowling, Civil Engineering Surveyor, July 2002

From the Back Cover

Project management is now regarded as the key to effective design and construction of building and engineering projects, and it is an increasingly important part of construction, surveying and civil engineering undergraduate and postgraduate courses. This book provides a systems approach to management, as applied to construction, and is particularly concerned with integration of the contributors and the ways in which decisions are made.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0632025174
• ISBN 13: 9780632025176
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 294