Construction Scheduling: Principles And Practices

This book is a comprehensive reference for project scheduling. It includes complete coverage of scheduling from the basics to advanced applications along with a detailed tutorial on the four most popular planning software programs—Primavera Project Planner (P3), SureTrak, P3e/c, and Microsoft Project. Check lists, daily-to-do-lists, magnetic scheduling boards, bar charts, Critical Path Method in practical detail, short interval schedules, updating, resource management, earned value, linear scheduling, graphic schedules, and matrix schedules. Not only for project managers, schedulers, superintendents of construction firms, but also software developers, Information Technology project managers, military project managers, business management project managers, etc.

Construction Scheduling: Principles and Practices contains very comprehensive and practical descriptions of step-by-step procedures for preparing all types of schedules. The text's real-world approach reflects the author's many years of practice in the field. The use of the computer as the primary scheduling tool is shown in the extensive coverage given to the major software packages.