عنوان

Handbook of Construction Management and Organization

(Number (ISBN

9781468414493

(Number (ISBN

9781468414516

Number

b403623

Title Proper

Handbook of Construction Management and Organization

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Joseph P. Frein.

Edition Statement

Second Edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Boston, MA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer US,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1980.

Text of Note

1 Basics of Contracting -- 2 Management Functions, Problems, And Types Of Organization -- 3 Building An Organization -- 4 Bid Strategy -- 5 Construction Contracts -- 6 Arranging for Financing -- 7 Construction Financing -- 8 Surety Bonds -- 9 Equipment Maintenance and Repair -- 10 Methods of Deciding Overhaul or Replacement -- 11 Charges for Use of Equipment -- 12 Purchasing, Expediting, Traffic, and Transportation 178 -- 13 Functions and Organization of Contractor's Engineering Section -- 14 Cost Estimating for Lump-Sum and Unit-Price Contracts -- 15 Estimating Other than Firm-Price Contracts -- 16 Cost Controls, Relation, and Coordination With Engineering and Accounting -- 17 Networking Techniques for Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control -- 18 Use of Computers In Contractor's Engineering Organization -- 19 Computer Capabilities in Construction Management -- 20 Office Administration: Headquarters and Field -- 21 Corporate and Cost Accounting -- 22 Payroll Procedures -- 23 Employment Practices and Records -- 24 Labor Relations and Their Effect on Employment Procedures -- 25 Safety Procedures and Practices -- 26 Public Relations for Contractors -- 27 Legal and Contractual Problems -- 28 Taxes -- 29 Contractors' Industrial Insurance -- 30 group insurance plans -- 31 Fundamental Concepts Underlying Pension Plan Financing and Costs -- 32 Contractural Relations, Disputes, Claims, and Contact Settlements.

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Text of Note

The primary purpose of this handbook is to make available maintenance and preventive maintenance and overhaul, engi to general contractors, consulting engineers, construction neering and estimating, scheduling and controls, data pro managers, specialty contractors, and subcontractors, as well cessing and the use of computer equipment in engineering as to professors and students in Universities and technical and accounting techniques, office administration, corporate institutes which offer courses on the subject, the fundamentals and cost accounting, payroll, employment and labor relations, of construction management together with the most workable safety, public relations, legal and contractural problems, types of organization, and the necessary capabilities they must banking and finance, taxes, surety bonding, insurance, pen include to reasonably ensure success and minimize the possi sion and retirement problems and others. bility of failure in this most hazardous profession. The combined effect of the various chapters, in addition to The second and equally important purpose is to furnish describing good practice with respect to the functioning of equipment manufacturers, dealers, material suppliers, bankers, the segments of a construction organization and the tangible surety bondsmen, and others, who traditionally rely on finan services needed by it, presents the all-important subject of cial statements and general reputation, something more con contractural relations, procedures to be followed, the prepara crete to look for-the type of management and organization, tion and pursuit of change orders and extra work orders for

International Standard Book Number

9781468414516

Title

Springer eBooks

Science (General).

Frein, Joseph P.

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Date of Transaction

20190301082900.0

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