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Successful Construction Project Management: The Practical Guide

Successful Construction Project Management – The Practical Guide, provides useful tips to managing a construction project. It’s aimed at construction professionals as well as those studying construction project management. Managing a construction project isn’t an easy job and requires a large skill set. Some of these skills are learned by attending courses and colleges (which are often more theoretical than practical). However, others are only learned by experience, and often the hard way – learning from mistakes. This book bridges the gap between the theoretical and practical and includes chapters on planning the project, starting it, scheduling, running the project, completing it, people, materials, equipment, quality, safety, subcontractors, contractual and financial. These chapters are broken into multiple sections providing a step-by-step guide to successfully managing a construction project, and, including what-not-to-do to avoid costly mistakes. Key features of the book are it: is written for construction contractors by a contractor is written in an easy to read, friendly style, and avoids being too ‘textbook’ in nature has numerous practical examples of situations the author has seen and experienced over twenty-eight years in construction includes many topics essential to successfully managing projects which aren’t included in most other project management books (such as; teamwork, delegation, communication, time management and preparing for meetings) has the information clearly set out and easily available so the book can be used as a continuing reference is not specific to a particular country or field of construction includes a large amount of valuable, useful and relevant information dealing with practical everyday issues of managing a project has a summary of the salient points at the end of each chapter Managing a construction project requires Project Managers with an understanding of construction processes, able to develop schedules, procure materials and equipment, aware of safety, environmental a

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