By Daniel W. Halpin
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Product Description
Get the skills and knowledge you need to be a successful construction manager with the thoroughly updated new edition of Halpin's Construction Management. The book reflects the most recent developments in industry practice, introduces you to the complex business of developing and constructing a major facility or structure, and examines the skills needed to be a successful construction manager.
You'll learn how to manage resources (money, machines, material, and men), contracts, changing conditions, and unforeseen events as well as about new safety procedures and the most recent industry statistics and practices.
This edition features:
New information on value engineering, earned value, product delivery systems, and the difference between purchasing construction and purchasing manufactured speculative products.
New material on scope of work, defining the project, and how to break the project into work packages in the context of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
A companion Web site that allows you to simulate construction operations.
Chapters on estimating, cost control, and analysis of construction operations that provide relevant information for actual practice.
The physical systems approach to construction management.
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Product Details
*Amazon Sales Rank: #124726 in Books
*Published on: 2005-11-04
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Hardcover
*416 pages
*Amazon Sales Rank: #124726 in Books
*Published on: 2005-11-04
*Original language: English
*Number of items: 1
*Binding: Hardcover
*416 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Publisher
From the Publisher
Examines the 4 M's of Construction Management--Money, Machines, Materials, and Manpower. Discusses the legal and management organization of a construction firm and the writing of contracts. Reviews the life cycle of a project, covering the needs of the project, the design sequence, the start-up and management of construction.
From the Back Cover Get the skills and knowledge you need to be a successful construction manager
Thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent developments in industry practice, the Third Edition of Halpin’s Construction Management introduces you to the complex business of developing and constructing a major facility or structure. The book presents a detailed look into the massive industry of construction and the skills needed to be a successful construction manager. You’ll learn how to carefully and professionally manage the resources––money, machines, material, and men––necessary to realize any construction project, within a construction environment of contracts, changing weather, varying conditions, and unforeseen events.
Features
*Includes new information on value engineering, earned value, product delivery systems, and the difference between purchasing construction and purchasing manufactured speculative products.
*New material in Chapter 6 covers the ideas of scope of work, defining the project, and how to break the project into work packages in the context of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
*The Project Scheduling chapter (Chapter 7) uses the concept of work packaging to develop the activities in the network schedules, and opens with a discussion of precedence notation.
*Web CYCLONE (available on the book’s companion site) allows you to simulate construction operations.
*Covers broad concepts of construction management (e.g. safety, labor relations, company organization, estimation, etc.).
*Chapters on estimating and cost control and analysis of construction operations provide relevant information for actual practice.
*Applies the physical systems approach to construction management.
*Presents the fascinating historical background of construction as a profession and discipline.
About the Author
From the Back Cover Get the skills and knowledge you need to be a successful construction manager
Thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent developments in industry practice, the Third Edition of Halpin’s Construction Management introduces you to the complex business of developing and constructing a major facility or structure. The book presents a detailed look into the massive industry of construction and the skills needed to be a successful construction manager. You’ll learn how to carefully and professionally manage the resources––money, machines, material, and men––necessary to realize any construction project, within a construction environment of contracts, changing weather, varying conditions, and unforeseen events.
Features
*Includes new information on value engineering, earned value, product delivery systems, and the difference between purchasing construction and purchasing manufactured speculative products.
*New material in Chapter 6 covers the ideas of scope of work, defining the project, and how to break the project into work packages in the context of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
*The Project Scheduling chapter (Chapter 7) uses the concept of work packaging to develop the activities in the network schedules, and opens with a discussion of precedence notation.
*Web CYCLONE (available on the book’s companion site) allows you to simulate construction operations.
*Covers broad concepts of construction management (e.g. safety, labor relations, company organization, estimation, etc.).
*Chapters on estimating and cost control and analysis of construction operations provide relevant information for actual practice.
*Applies the physical systems approach to construction management.
*Presents the fascinating historical background of construction as a profession and discipline.
About the Author
Daniel Halpin is currently professor of Construction Engineering at Purdue University. He has written 3 books related to the area of Construction Management, and he is generally recognized as one of the leading authorities in the world on the use of simulation in studying construction processes. In 1987, he accepted the position of Head of the Division of Construction Engineering and Management at Purdue University. In 2003, he was elected a member of The National Academy of Construction.
Customer Reviews
Not pleased
Not pleased
This is the wordiest textbook I have ever read. This book could probably be shortened by 100 pages. When I am reading a textbook I would like to get to the point as simply and quickly as possible.
Good resource for me!
Good resource for me!
I'm employed as Project Manager for a company which fabricates and erects steel framed commercial buildings. When I first began this job, many administrative processes were less-than-ideal. Chapter 17 covers Safety quite well. We have made changes to our documents and breifings which replicate the guidelines within this book! I found Chapter 3 helpful. Change Orders are explained well enough for my needs. Chapter 7 is titled, Project Scheduling. I'd hoped to learn about features and use of common software scheduling programs but instead rec'd a chapter of fairly useless math calculations and symbols which are largley irrelevant in 2007. Hey, software is the way to go! In summary, I found this book to be well written and organized. I doubt it can be PERFECT for each and every Construction Manager but I'm glad this resource is on my shelf!
Short, Grad Level Survey Coursebook
Short, Grad Level Survey Coursebook
OUCH! ... and OUCH! I've purchased many texts based on reviews, sales rankings and preveiws, but this is my first major burn. With no reviews, I based my purchase on the high sales ranking. But I don't know who would find this a value. It is a high level survey text. Short chapters with min development. I know enough about the subject such that some chapters are total review while others are nowhere near complete for a topic new to a person. Physically short, small text overall - the white matter is 9/16" thick! Even has the audacity to include the "filler" appendices with copies of contracts. Well written with good grammar, lots of graphs etc. so it is obviously a university favorite somewhere, hopefully with an excellent instructor offering lots of additional commentary. But not remotely worth the whopping price, and wish the author would teach me his secret to publishing negotiations. Short of that, send me a check. Next version, add 200 pages and cut the coverage then add some depth. Maybe if I were in a different industry or discipline (e.g. banking, civil) and this was to be used for an MS/PhD elective?
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