Construction management

Chapter 1: History of construction managementChapter 2: The changing environment of the construction industry Chapter 3: Construction project management Chapter 4: Construction planning Chapter 5: Construction scheduling procedures Chapter 6: Cost estimation Chapter 7: Construction pricing and contracting Chapter 8: Materials management Chapter 9: Productivity in the construction industry Chapter 10:The design and construction process Chapter 11: Quality control and safety during construction Chapter 12: Computers in construction management Chapter 13: Quality management systems in construction Chapter 14: Lean construction Chpater 15: Quality in the design and construction interface Chapter 16: Internal quality audits and ISO 9000 in construction Chapter 17: Construction quality and cost Chapter 18: A systematic approach to risk management in construction Chapter 19: Risk management tools & techniques for bot projects Chapter 20: Risk and organizational behavior Chapter 21: Performance study of the design construction interface Chapter 22: Internal quality audits & ISO 9000 in construction (data collection and analysis based on case studies) Chapter 23: Capturing rework costs in projects (case studies of two Australian construction projects) Chaper 24: The cost of quality failure/non-conformance on construction sites (an application of the quality cost matrix) Chapter 25:Effectiveness of systematic risk management (a case study of a small project in Australia) Chapter 26: Risk analysis to parties in bot projects Chapter 27: A quantitative approach to construction risk management