Author: Hisham Fawzi QaddumiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The systems approach in the building industry
Author: Hisham Fawzi QaddumiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Systems Approach to Architecture
Author: A. Benjamin HandlerPublisher: Elsevier Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Managing Complex Construction Projects
Author: John K. BriesemeisterPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429943709
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
To many program, project, or construction managers, a complex project seems to be a labyrinth with many hidden dangers. This book is a guide through that labyrinth. It explains best practices and provides insight so they cannot only identify hidden dangers but also effectively manage the construction process to either mitigate or eliminate these risks. The book presents a systems-based approach to construction project management that can facilitate a greater understanding of the complexity inherent in large construction projects and how that complexity can be effectively managed. The systems approach permits the onsite construction project manager to take a complex construction project, break it down into manageable pieces, and ensure that all systems are in alignment with the original goal of the project. This approach combines industrial engineering, project management, and finance into a unified approach for effective management of complex construction projects, ranging from a power plant to a highway project. The book explains how to manage construction projects successfully through an approach based on the three following systems: Project Management System Work Management System Quality Management System The problem with complex programs and projects is that many managers are only equipped with a knowledge of project management. A system for construction is a collection of many processes effectively working together to produce a specific deliverable, which is usually defined in the program or project’s contract. This system has a series of specific inputs and outputs, which are what the customer expects from the company or companies performing the work. This book develops checklists based on these inputs and outputs, which managers can use when first arriving onsite, and provides a "nuts and bolts" approach for managing a complex construction project onsite. The author shares valuable lessons learned during a career of more than thirty years of working on various construction sites around the world. These lessons learned are filled with valuable information to aid readers become more effective as a program, project, or construction manager of complex construction projects.
Building Production Management Techniques
Author: David R. MoorePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317879791
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Building Production Management Techniques provides an innovative approach to dealing with the universal problems of time, cost and quality of construction projects. The book provides an introduction to a number of management techniques that can be applied to the problems of production presented by the diverse, heavy, large and geographically distributed products typical of construction everywhere. As well as recognised and tried and tested management techniques, the authors have introduced a number of techniques which may not have been considered by the construction industry to date.
Technology Transfer in the Building Industry
Author: Julie B. RosenblattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Systems Approach to Building
Author: Preechaya SittipuntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The new demand for building and the problems generated by this demand confronting the building industry have become more complex as a result of increasing social change, evolution of industrialization and inadequacy of traditional methods to cope with new needs and problems. Accordingly, the building industry has conscientiously directed itself towards a more efficient and economical use of limited resources and available technology on the basis of science-based procedures. In this thesis, the so-called "Systems Approach" is perceived as an effective methodology to solve problems in the building industry, leading to its improved performance, if the process using the systems approach is properly developed and appropriately used. Its application requires the application and the requisites of disciplined and scientific methods, management and orderly operation of planning, design, procurement and construction, including change in many traditional procedures. This study aims at the development of an approach to systems building embracing its theoretical, conceptual and practical framework, and looking at the various facets which must be approached with caution in its development. The process is developed as an integral aspect of the systems approach based on performance requirements as a strong tool to procure a specified building system, in compliance with user requirements as a primary concern. Throughout the study, the focus is on the differences between system procedures and traditional procedures. Examples from the real systems programs are included.
Systems Approach for the Building Process
Author: Nicholas RuszPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Architectural Systems
Author: Ezra D. EhrenkrantzPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Ten case studies demonstrate ways to coordinate the architectural and engineering components in complex buildings to make the different elements (structural, electrical, mechanical, and architectural) function as an integrated whole. Treats residential, academic, and medical facilities. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Systems Approach to Building
Author: Construction Safety Management, A Systems Approach
Author: Jose D. PérezgonzálezPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 141163134X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The few models on safety management that are available tend to explain a procedure to manage safety rather than a safety management system. The research carried out here, however, models safety management by transforming a common procedural model (i.e. the HSE's model, 1997) into a functional systems representation. The overall goal of the model is to offer clear graphic lines of influence of its different components on organisational safety. The model is innovative not in the components that it considers but in the representation of those components, which details relative distances between elements and, therefore, opens doors to model-driven hypotheses which account for those distances. Therefore, hypotheses are more accurate in their predictions. This model is firstly explored in the construction sector. Results from this exploratory research support the adequacy of the model to understanding safety management and encourage future research of a more confirmatory nature.