Management Techniques Applied to the Construction Industry

Ray Oxley (Author), J. Poskitt (Author)

9780632038626, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 21 August 1996

324 pages
24.4 x 17.3 x 1.9 cm, 0.562 kg

Now in its 5th edition, this well established text first examines individual management techniques and then demonstrates these in practice, via a large new section of case studies based on actual building projects. This edition also features a revised section on costing and a new set of exercises for students.

General introduction and quality assurance
Management Techniques - Planning generally
Bar charts
Project network techniques
Programming for repetitive construction generally
Sequence studies
Line of balance technique
Work study
Budgetary and cost control
Case Studies
Exercises

Subject Areas: Civil engineering, surveying & building [TN]