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A revised and updated practical guide for contractors, covering all aspects of managing a construction project. Tackling actual on-the-job situations, it goes through: estimating, including conceptual and order-of-magnitude estimates, and electronic data processing techniques; arbitration and mediation roles for claims and contract dispute resolution; safety on the jobsite, including setting up an effective safety program and the latest OSHA safety and health standards; and new trends such as partnering, design-build, and e-construction.

Sidney M. Levy for many years was senior vice president of a widely respected development and general contracting firm in Connecticut. Now the owner of his own construction consulting business in Baltimore, Maryland, he has worked in construction project management for more than 40 years. In this book, based on his experience, he shares the business and management tools that contractors and construction project managers need to succeed.