Cost Engineering for Effective Project Control

Provides an integrated overview of methods for controlling the cost, schedule and quality of a construction project. It emphasizes project diagnostics and analysis of the patterns of a project and covers estimating, procurement, construction management, planning, CPM, claims and data collection. It also covers the major planning, scheduling and estimating software packages from Primavera, G2, Computer Controls Inc., Timberline and others. Project Diagnostics.

Construction Patterns.

The Construction Estimate.

Procurement.

Decision Making at a Project.

Construction Management.

Planning.

CPM and Other Networks.

Construction Claims.

The Art of Project Information Collection.

Escalation.

Project Control.

Bibliography.

Index.

Sol A. Ward is the author of Cost Engineering for Effective Project Control, published by Wiley.