Pearson’s Pocket Guide to Construction Management

Description

For use as a supplement to construction management courses and as a reference text for internship classes where the student is required to work in industry.

Covering many of the key concepts in a construction management, the Pocket Guide to Construction Management is designed to give students and construction professionals a portable reference to the key concepts and formulas needed to run a successful construction project and company. The Pocket Guide covers many areas of construction management, including construction math, contract documents, contracts, bonds, insurance, drawing symbols, construction communication, document tracking, building codes, estimating, wages, equipment costs, job roles, sustainable, building information modeling, critical path scheduling, safety, time value of money, life cycle analysis, earned value, ethics, and construction materials. The Pocket Guide offers many examples of how to apply these concepts, yet it is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket!

Hallmark Features:

This pocket-sized book is easy for the student to carry—to class as a supplemental text during all four years of their education.

• It is easy for the student or construction manager to carry on the jobsite.  

Many example problems—are provided.

• Shows the reader how to solve a problem using the equations and principals covered.  

The Pocket Guide covers a broad range—of construction management topics.

• When a professor teaching a junior- or senior-level class wants to tie the subject being taught into material that was covered in previous courses, the professor can refer to the Pocket Guide rather than having students bring their books from previous courses.
• Students can easily bring the Pocket Guide to all of their classes, which is something they cannot do with a shelf full of old textbooks!  

Chapter 9, “Construction Materials,” contains—many drawings showing the materials needed to construct a building component, such as a block wall.

• Helps the reader understand how parts of a building are constructed and what materials are needed.  

Many construction terms are defined—through the use of figures and text.

• Helps the reader understand terminology unique to the construction industry.

Covering many of the key concepts in a construction management, the Pocket Guide to Construction Management is designed to give students and construction professionals a portable reference to the key concepts and formulas needed to run a successful construction project and company. The Pocket Guide covers many areas of construction management, including construction math, contract documents, contracts, bonds, insurance, drawing symbols, construction communication, document tracking, building codes, estimating, wages, equipment costs, job roles, sustainable, building information modeling, critical path scheduling, safety, time value of money, life cycle analysis, earned value, ethics, and construction materials. The Pocket Guide offers many examples of how to apply these concepts, yet it is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket!

Chapter 1: Construction Math

Chapter 2: The Project Manual

Chapter 3: The Drawings

Chapter 4: Construction Communications

Chapter 5: Building Codes

Chapter 6: Overview of Estimating

Chapter 7: Introduction to Construction Management

Chapter 8: Ethics

Chapter 9: Construction Materials

For use as a supplement to construction management courses and as a reference text for internship classes where the student is required to work in industry.

Covering many of the key concepts in a construction management, the Pocket Guide to Construction Management is designed to give students and construction professionals a portable reference to the key concepts and formulas needed to run a successful construction project and company. The Pocket Guide covers many areas of construction management, including construction math, contract documents, contracts, bonds, insurance, drawing symbols, construction communication, document tracking, building codes, estimating, wages, equipment costs, job roles, sustainable, building information modeling, critical path scheduling, safety, time value of money, life cycle analysis, earned value, ethics, and construction materials. The Pocket Guide offers many examples of how to apply these concepts, yet it is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket!