Management Techniques Applied to the Construction Industry

Now in its 5th edition, this well established text first examines individual management techniques and then demonstrates these in practice, via a large new section of case studies based on actual building projects. This edition also features a revised section on costing and a new set of exercises for students. General introduction and quality assurance; Management Techniques - Planning generally; Bar charts; Project network techniques; Programming for repetitive construction generally; Sequence studies; Line of balance technique; Work study; Budgetary and cost control; Case Studies; Exercises

Ray Oxley and J. Poskitt are the authors of Management Techniques Applied to the Construction Industry, 5th Edition, published by Wiley. This well established text examines individual management techniques and then demonstrates these in practice in a substantial new section of case studies based on actual buiding projects. The new edition features a revised section on costing and a new set of exercises for students.