The Construction Project Manager's Handbook: A Complete Guide to Planning, Scheduling, Cost Control, Contracts, Risk, and Delivering Projects On Time and On Budget

Drawing on more than two decades in project controls across infrastructure and building programmes, The Construction Project Manager's Handbook brings the full delivery cycle into a single, practical volume - written for the manager who needs an answer today, not a theory to study for later.

Eighteen chapters, organised the way a project actually runs

• Foundations - the role itself, delivery models and risk allocation, and the dozen contract provisions that govern your week
• Setting the project up - pre-construction, scope and work breakdown structures, and building a baseline schedule that survives scrutiny
• Controlling delivery - cost control and cash flow, earned value worked through with real calculations, progress measurement, and risk management
• Running the site - quality systems and non-conformance, health and safety, and leading subcontractors and stakeholders
• When things go wrong - delay analysis and extension of time, disruption, variations and claims, and schedule recovery
• Finishing - commissioning, handover, closeout, and the career and certification paths that follow

Built to be used

Every chapter closes with key takeaways, expert tips, and the mistakes that recur most often. Throughout you will find worked examples from real projects - the baseline that hid nine weeks, the four hundred small accommodations that cost a contractor its margin, the acceleration that spent $900,000 to gain eleven days.

The reference section includes a full cheat sheet of formulas and diagnostic tests, eleven ready-to-use templates, eight checklists, a glossary, and an acronym reference.

One book. The full delivery cycle. Written by someone who has done the work.

Dr. Hassan Khames Eliwa is a Project Controls and Planning professional with more than 17 years of experience across infrastructure, building and engineering projects in New Zealand and internationally. He holds a PhD in Construction Management and has published multiple academic and industry papers in project management, project controls and construction technology. Throughout his career, Dr. Eliwa has specialized in planning, scheduling, delay analysis, project controls, earned value management and executive reporting using industry-leading platforms such as Primavera P6, Microsoft Project and Synchro 4D. He is the founder of PMMilestone.org, a knowledge-sharing platform dedicated to practical project controls education, and Director of Eliwa Project Controls Limited, New Zealand. His mission is simple: To make professional project controls knowledge accessible, practical and immediately useful for project teams worldwide.