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Project Scheduling for Construction Contractors
Table of Contents
Table of Exhibits and Figures
About This Series
- Rules of Business
- Self-Paced Personal Instruction
About This Course
- Purpose
Chapter 1: General Scheduling
- Master Coordinator
- Project Scheduling
- Setting a Realistic Schedule
- Scheduling Basics
- Residential Construction Outline
- Summary
Chapter 2: Dealing with Others on the Project
- Establish a Communication Process
- Pre-project Meeting
- Preliminary Schedule
- Working with Owners
- Making Decisions
- The Construction Contract
- Laws of Nature
- Overstepping Authority
- "Talk to Me"
- Supervisors
- Workers
- Long Range Planning and Scheduling
- Subcontractors
- Architects, Designers, and Engineers
- Reviewing The Plans
- Inspections by the Architect or Designer
- Suppliers
- "Just in Time" (JIT) Deliveries
- Inspectors
- Dealing With Local Government
- Building Agencies
- Summary
Chapter 3: Scheduling Systems
- Project "Breakdown"
- Project Breakdown Checklist
- Evaluation
- Methods of Estimating Activity Time
- Benefit From Past Successes
- Give Scheduling a Chance
- Critical Path Method
- Project Breakdown and Duration Checklist
- CPM Scheduling
- Bar Chart Scheduling
- Calendar Scheduling
- Which is the Best Scheduling System?
- Scheduling Software
- Final Hints and Tips
- Summary
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