Information Technology in Construction Design


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Part 1: Introduction - Background - Text - Graphics - Images - Manipulation - Facilities management - Financial accounting and modelling - Database activities - Data manipulation and Statistical analysis - CAD/CAM/CAE and multi-media - Telecommunications and networks Part 2: Case studies of organisations - Architectural and engineering practices including some of the biggest names in the industry in the UK; covering different sizes, structures, philosophies, working methodologies, and different services offered to clients in different markets Part 3: Conclusions - Comments about IT in action - Emerging views - Future developments




The Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls


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Although projects always carry risk, too many projects run late or exceed their original budgets by eye-watering amounts. This book is a comprehensive guide to the procedures needed to ensure that projects will be delivered on time, to specification and within budget. Eight expert contributors have combined their considerable talents to explain all aspects of project control from project conception to completion in an informative text, liberally supported where necessary by clear illustrations. This handbook will benefit all project practitioners, including project managers and those working in project management offices. It will also provide an invaluable guide for students studying for higher degrees in project management and its associated disciplines.




NASA SP-7500


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Critical Path Analysis and Other Project Network Techniques


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This text is intended for those who wish to assess the value of project network techniques (PNT) in dealing with their own problems and for those who wish to put the technique into practice. This revised edition discusses resource analysis and contains a chapter on practical considerations which has been prepared setting out day-to-day practice which the authors have found useful. In addition the chapter on control of cash has been amplified and the line of balance chapter now includes discussion of the elemental trend analysis technique. The Solutions Manual has been converted into a lecturer's manual whose purpose is to help tutors by reducing the time taken in the drawing of networks. The manual contains A4-size drawings of the key diagrams in the text and all the answers to the quesitons.




RIBA Journal


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Project Management


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This book seeks to consider the context of modern projects at strategic, systems and operational level. It applies the theory to a wide range of industries, including non-profit-making organisations, such as the police