This guide to construction project management should help contractors to sharpen their management skills, so that they can survive and thrive in the 90s. It includes real-world, on-the-job guidance and covers recent revisions to codes, standards and contracts; electronic data-processing estimating procedures; efficient project documentation; ...
This manual aims to provide everything contractors and construction managers require for total control over field operations and the office policies and procedures, such as: ready-to-use forms; contract interpretations; procedures, including those for hiring; flowcharts for cost estimating; and a complete project safety manual. Consolidating the ...
This comprehensive checklist and forms book will improve building contractors' on-site business management techniques and organizational skills. "Building Contractor's Checklists and Forms" provides readers with a checklist approach to successful contracting that covers all phases of the construction process as well as business practice skills. It ...
This work contains a CD-ROM with dozens of forms, sample letters, and checklists! This is your one-stop resource for effective construction site supervision. As a construction superintendent, you know your job involves more than simply riding herd over a work crew and a site full of equipment. "Construction Superintendent's Operations Manual" ...
This is the book builders turn to when they need an answer fast! Whether you're a construction professional who needs a solution-oriented, quick-find manual or a homeowner who wants help tackling tough weekend repairs, "Builder's Instant Answers" is the on-the-job resource you should always keep within reach. It's the one book you can count on to ...
A manual of inspection procedures for various components of a construction project. Focused on excavation, substructures, superstructures, paving, transportation equipment, and electrical work, the book is divided into two sections; one dealing with construction procedural matters and the other dealing with technical matters. Section 1 includes ...
Using the Build, Operate, Transfer (BOT) system, private developers design, finance, construct, and operate revenue-producing public projects, and, at the end of the pay-back period, turn projects over to the community. This book explore this new approach to privatization and provides detailed information on keeping these projects on time and ...
Design-build is widely recognized as the most profitable method of project delivery for non-residential construction. "Design-Build Project Delivery" offers real-world examples and advice from a wide variety of industry experts on every aspect of design-build project delivery. Complete with checklists and forms, this is the most practical and ...
Japan's six largest construction companies are consistently ranked at the top of the most successful construction firms in the world. This text looks at the business and technical secrets that put them there. Using case studies, Sidney Levy investigates the methods of Kajima Corporation, Takenaka, Obayashi Corporation, Kumagai Gumi, Tasiai ...
Presents an overview of extrusion technology as applied to the operation of extrusion systems and the design of tooling and equipment for use in the process. Provides basic technical information on the behavior of polymer and plastics materials in the extrusion process. Contains tool descriptions that provide a basis for the analysis of existing ...
"Residential Construction Databook" is written by Sidney M. Levy. It provides the data needed to plan projects, estimate costs, install systems, find product specs, comply with building codes, and solve on-site problems. It includes hundreds of tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations covering materials and components most frequently utilized ...
Stay on top of construction details and procedures with the help of this illustrated data handbook. It offers fast access to hundreds of tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations, covering all the components of construction utilized at a typical job site. This complete reference manual will provide you with a single source of specifications, ...
This on-the-job- reference tool provides concise engineering, technological and practical guidelines to ensure that every phase in the construction of a building or facility conforms exactly with the design intent. The handbook covers heavy and specialty construction as well as general building. It features full chapters on surveying, excavation, ...
The day-to-day record of construction work site activities helps contractors and managers collect accurate daily information in one place. Designed for ease of use, this book tracks such things as weather conditions, job inspections, visitor notations and descriptions of project activities. This diary should serve as the primary document in the ...
A construction professional with more than 30 years experience in the industry offers a practical manual designed for the construction superintendent that helps to simplify today's complex projects while offering highly accessible and easily referenced technical data on most common construction components. This handbook begins by analyzing the key ...
This book is an all-bases-covered guide to the finishes, materials, and structural systems used in common building practices. It highlights scores of shapes, patterns, details, procedures, and more in both charts and illustrations. Masonry, roofing types, interior materials, and finishes are all included in this detail-by-detail resource.
This text provides owners and managers of small to mid-size subcontracting firms with basic management tools required for survival. The book explains how to effectively deal with general contractors, and includes forms and sample letters which are also featured on the CD ROM.
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