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LECTURE NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Emad Elbeltagi, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor of Construction Management Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University
Construction Project Management 2009 Copyright © 2009 by the author. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the prior written permissions of the author.
PREFACE
In the Name of ALLAH the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate All praise is due to ALLAH and blessings and peace be upon His messenger and servant, Muhammad, and upon his family and companions and whoever follows his guidance until the Day of Resurrection. Construction project management is a relatively young field. However, its impact has been quite remarkable. It has become an important practice for improving the efficiency of construction operations around the world. This book deals with some topics and tools of the large field of project management. This book is dedicated mainly to undergraduate engineering students, especially Civil Engineering students where most of the applications are presented in the civil engineering field. It provides the reader with the main knowledge to manage a construction project from preliminary stages to handover. It includes eight chapters: Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to construction projects in terms of their types, project life cycle and the main players involved. Chapter 2 is dedicated for the contract strategy. The planning stages of a construction project are presented in chapter 3. Chapter 4 is dedicated for presenting different scheduling techniques along with the schedule representation. Chapter 5 is dedicated to discuss the scheduling methods on non-deterministic activity durations. The scheduling of linear projects is presented in chapter 6. Chapter 7 is dealing with both the resource scheduling and smoothing problems. The
Emad Elbeltagi, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor of Construction Management Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University
Construction Project Management 2009 Copyright © 2009 by the author. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a data base or retrieval system, without the prior written permissions of the author.
PREFACE
In the Name of ALLAH the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate All praise is due to ALLAH and blessings and peace be upon His messenger and servant, Muhammad, and upon his family and companions and whoever follows his guidance until the Day of Resurrection. Construction project management is a relatively young field. However, its impact has been quite remarkable. It has become an important practice for improving the efficiency of construction operations around the world. This book deals with some topics and tools of the large field of project management. This book is dedicated mainly to undergraduate engineering students, especially Civil Engineering students where most of the applications are presented in the civil engineering field. It provides the reader with the main knowledge to manage a construction project from preliminary stages to handover. It includes eight chapters: Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to construction projects in terms of their types, project life cycle and the main players involved. Chapter 2 is dedicated for the contract strategy. The planning stages of a construction project are presented in chapter 3. Chapter 4 is dedicated for presenting different scheduling techniques along with the schedule representation. Chapter 5 is dedicated to discuss the scheduling methods on non-deterministic activity durations. The scheduling of linear projects is presented in chapter 6. Chapter 7 is dealing with both the resource scheduling and smoothing problems. The