Location-based management for construction : planning, scheduling and control /
By: Kenley, Russell.
Contributor(s): Seppänen, Olli.
Publisher: London : Spon Press, 2010Description: xxx, 554 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415370509 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780415370509:; 0415370507 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780203030417 (ebook); 0203030419 (ebook).Subject(s): Building -- Superintendence -- Data processing | Construction projects -- Management | Location-based services -- Production scheduling -- Flowline | Production scheduling | Network analysis (Planning) | Workflow -- ManagementDDC classification: 690.68Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Section one : introduction to planning and control. 1 : introduction. 2 : the development of activity-based planning and scheduling systems. 3 : the development of location-based planning and scheduling systems. 4 : approaches to planning control -- Section two : location-based planning. 5 : a new theory for location-based planning. 6 : location-based planning methods. 7 : using location-based planning methodologies -- Section three : location-based control. 8 : a new theory for location-based control. 9 : location-based control methods. 10 : using location-based control methodologies -- Section four : the location-based management system. 11 : location-based management system (LBMS). 12 : implementing LBMS. 13 : planning project types. 14 : planning and control of linear projects -- Section five : case studies. 15 : case study 1 : Opus business park. 16 : case study 2 : St. Joseph's NE tower addition. 17 : multiple case study components -- Authors index -- General index.
This is a practitioner's guide to a production system for construction management using flowline scheduling. Covering the entire process of presenting a management system - from design, through measurement, scheduling, and visualisation and control - its emphasis is on reducing cost and increasing quality.