Ebook: Network Scheduling Techniques for Construction Project Management

Industrial, financial, commercial or any kinds of project have at least one common feature: the better organized they are, the higher the profit or the lower the cost. Project management is the principle of planning different projects and keeping them on track within time, cost and resource constraints. The need for effective project management is ever-increasing. The complexity of the environment we live in requires more sophisticated methods than it did just a couple of decades ago. Project managers might face insurmountable obstacles in their work if they do not adapt themselves to the changing circumstances. On the other hand, better knowledge of project management can result in better plans, schedules and, last but not least, more contracts and more profit. This knowledge can help individuals and firms to stay alive in this competitive market and, in the global sense, utilize the finite resources of our planet in a more efficient way.

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The book is a synthesis of the state-of-the-art in project management concepts and techniques. The author places particular emphasis on precedence diagramming (PDM), at present the most widely used scheduling method. New theoretical improvements of PDM are presented, several for the first time in a book, such as: maximal type of precedence relationships, calculating the minimal and maximal available project durations, leveling resources when maximal relationships are used, and precedence diagramming time-cost trade-off. Discussions of computer implementation are included throughout the book. A PC-based software package called `ProjectDirector', containing the theoretical improvements described in the book, is available from the author.
Audience: Researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students in civil engineering, industrial engineering and operations research, as well as practitioners, managers, and contractors interested in project management.

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The book is a synthesis of the state-of-the-art in project management concepts and techniques. The author places particular emphasis on precedence diagramming (PDM), at present the most widely used scheduling method. New theoretical improvements of PDM are presented, several for the first time in a book, such as: maximal type of precedence relationships, calculating the minimal and maximal available project durations, leveling resources when maximal relationships are used, and precedence diagramming time-cost trade-off. Discussions of computer implementation are included throughout the book. A PC-based software package called `ProjectDirector', containing the theoretical improvements described in the book, is available from the author.
Audience: Researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students in civil engineering, industrial engineering and operations research, as well as practitioners, managers, and contractors interested in project management.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
CPM Scheduling....Pages 17-78
CPM Least Cost Scheduling....Pages 79-132
Precedence Diagramming....Pages 133-171
Advanced Precedence Diagramming....Pages 173-201
Precedence Diagramming with Bounded Activity Duration....Pages 203-218
PDM Least Cost Scheduling....Pages 219-241
Resources in Scheduling....Pages 243-258
Art of Scheduling....Pages 259-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-335

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The book is a synthesis of the state-of-the-art in project management concepts and techniques. The author places particular emphasis on precedence diagramming (PDM), at present the most widely used scheduling method. New theoretical improvements of PDM are presented, several for the first time in a book, such as: maximal type of precedence relationships, calculating the minimal and maximal available project durations, leveling resources when maximal relationships are used, and precedence diagramming time-cost trade-off. Discussions of computer implementation are included throughout the book. A PC-based software package called `ProjectDirector', containing the theoretical improvements described in the book, is available from the author.
Audience: Researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students in civil engineering, industrial engineering and operations research, as well as practitioners, managers, and contractors interested in project management.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
CPM Scheduling....Pages 17-78
CPM Least Cost Scheduling....Pages 79-132
Precedence Diagramming....Pages 133-171
Advanced Precedence Diagramming....Pages 173-201
Precedence Diagramming with Bounded Activity Duration....Pages 203-218
PDM Least Cost Scheduling....Pages 219-241
Resources in Scheduling....Pages 243-258
Art of Scheduling....Pages 259-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-335
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