Construction ManagementEdition 2

The application of quality tools and techniques in construction projects has a great influence on the cost-effectiveness results of construction projects and achieving successful project performance. Quality management tools and techniques help in project planning, execution, monitoring, and control of the project and evolve a project management system that makes project deliverables.

Construction Management: Quality Tools and Techniques provides the usage and application of various quality tools and techniques in different phases of construction project management focusing on three quality management processes involving the varying aspects of quality. This volume illustrates how important quality is for construction projects and offers an overview of construction projects along with a brief introduction to the different types of projects, the different phases of the life cycle, and the principles. Project Delivery Systems (PDS) along with their organizational relationship, participants, advantages, and disadvantages of each system are included. The book goes on to discuss the qualification of construction managers and the type of management systems and their roles during the different design stages from the beginning through to the handover of the project is also included.

This volume provides significant information and guidelines to construction and project management professionals (owners, designers, consultants, construction managers, project managers, supervisors, contractors, builders, developers, and many others from the construction-related industry) involved in construction projects (mainly civil construction projects, commercial-A/E projects) and construction-related industries.

This book is also available as a set, Handbook of Construction Management: Scope, Schedule, and Cost Control, 2-Volume Set (9781041071174).