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Construction Project Management: An Integrated Approach 3rd edition

Paperback by Fewings, Peter (University of the West of England, UK); Henjewele, Christian (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)

Construction Project Management: An Integrated Approach

£36.99

ISBN:
9780815358657
Publication Date:
3 Apr 2019
Edition/language:
3rd edition / English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
508 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 1 Jan 2025
Construction Project Management: An Integrated Approach

Description

Construction Project Management: An Integrated Approach is a management approach to leading projects and the effective choice and use of project management tools and techniques. It seeks to push the boundaries of project management to take on board future needs and user issues. Integration of the construction project, meaning closer relations between the project team, the supply chain and the client, is long overdue; however, despite some signs of growth in this area, the industry nonetheless remains fragmented in its approach. The role of the project manager is to integrate diverse interests and unify objectives to achieve a common goal. This has now broadened to include a responsibility, on the parts of both client and team, to ensure that construction addresses current and future societal needs. From an economic perspective, a great deal of waste is connected with conflict, thus a holistic approach that increases the efficiency and effectiveness of the task at hand will inject energy into project management. This third edition now takes on board the impact of technology in building information modelling and other digitised technologies such as artificial intelligence. Together, they open up avenues for more direct and incisive action to test creative design, manufacture directly and communicate spontaneously and intuitively. In time, such technologies will change the role of project managers but will never take away their responsibility to be passionate about construction and to integrate the team. A new chapter has been added that considers future societal needs. This edition is also reordered to make the project life cycle and process chapters clearer. This book combines best practice in construction with the theories underpinning project management and presents a wealth of practical case studies - many new. It focuses on all construction disciplines that may manage projects. The book is of unique value to students in the later years of undergraduate courses and those on specialist postgraduate courses in project management and also for practitioners in all disciplines and clients who have experienced the frustration caused by the fragmentation of construction projects.

Contents

0 Introduction 1 Project life cycle and success 2 Building the client business case 3 Project development and evaluation 4 Construction procurement 5 Planning and control 6 Design management and value 7 Project organisation and leadership 8 Engineering the psycho-productive environment 9 Engineering the production process 10 Managing risk and value 11 Project safety, health and the environment 12 Sustainable delivery of construction projects 13 Digital construction 14 Quality and customer care 15 Project close out and systems improvement 16 Conclusion: future construction Glossary

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