Time, cost, and architecture / George T. Heery

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw Hill Education, c1975Description: viii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 70278156
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TH 437 .H44 1975
Contents:
Preface -- 1. New directions in design with construction management: fourteen case histories -- 2. A management approach to the construction program -- 3. The owner -- 4. Introduction to the time/cost control system -- 5. Predesign project analysis -- 6. Systems approach to design -- 7. A cost-control system -- 8. Time control, contract time provisions, and contract time-extension rulings -- 9. Productive use of the critical path method and other computer-assisted scheduling techniques -- 10. Phased, separate, and transferable contracts -- 11. Bid and negotiations management -- 12. Construction management in the construction phase -- Index.
Summary: This book describes a definitive system for time and cost control that may be applied within any given program of requirements, quality level, or design goal. The system has been used effectively on many projects of varying size and type, for private and governmental owners, and in various areas of the United States and abroad, including some of the most difficult of construction markets.
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Includes index.

Preface -- 1. New directions in design with construction management: fourteen case histories -- 2. A management approach to the construction program -- 3. The owner -- 4. Introduction to the time/cost control system -- 5. Predesign project analysis -- 6. Systems approach to design -- 7. A cost-control system -- 8. Time control, contract time provisions, and contract time-extension rulings -- 9. Productive use of the critical path method and other computer-assisted scheduling techniques -- 10. Phased, separate, and transferable contracts -- 11. Bid and negotiations management -- 12. Construction management in the construction phase -- Index.

This book describes a definitive system for time and cost control that may be applied within any given program of requirements, quality level, or design goal. The system has been used effectively on many projects of varying size and type, for private and governmental owners, and in various areas of the United States and abroad, including some of the most difficult of construction markets.

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