Location-Based Management for Construction: Planning, Scheduling and Control

ISBN-13: 9780367577292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 554 str.

Russell Kenley; Olli Seppänen

Opis

With extensive case studies for illustration, this book acts both as a practitioner's guide to an entirely new production system for construction management, and as a how-to guide for researchers and advanced construction students.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Section 1: Construction Planning  2. The Development of Project Scheduling  3. Combining CPM and Location-Based Planning  4. Planning for Lean Construction  5. Flowline Methodologies  6. Implementation  Section 2: Construction Control  7. Theory of Control in Construction  8. Tools for Controlling Construction  9. Control Methodologies  10. Implementation  Section 3: Practical Planning for Projects  11. Planning Project Types  12. Case Study 1  13. Case Study 2  14. Case Study 3  15. Case Study 4

O autorze

Russell Kenley, author of Financing Construction: Cash flows and cash farming is Professor of Construction at Unitec New Zealand. In addition to his work on financial management of construction, he has 18 years' experience in planning the management of construction projects, including applying manual flowline techniques to improve production on many construction projects.

Olli Seppänen is the developer of new software tools to support location-based methods for construction work of various types. In particular he is the developer of DynaProject, a powerful tool for planning and controlling many forms of construction using flowline methods, as well as DynaRoad, a highly innovative tool for optimising mass-haul and planning and controlling linear construction works.