Project Management for Engineering and Construction : A Life-cycle Approach

A completely updated guide to engineering and construction project management

This up-to-date guide presents highly effective strategies for managing engineering and construction projects from the initial conceptual stage, to design and construction, all the way to completion. Reorganized to mirror the chronology of a real-world job, Project Management for Engineering and Construction: A Life-Cycle Approach, Fourth Edition addresses all phases of the project lifecycle. You will get field-ready tactics to manage the scope, budget, and schedule of a construction project, starting at the very earliest steps of the process.

Coverage includes:

• Project initiation
• Preliminary development
• Work plan development
• Team selection and development
• Document control
• Early estimates
• Project budgeting
• Risk assessment and analysis
• Design proposals
• Project planning and scheduling
• Design coordination
• Construction phase
• Monitoring and reporting
• Project close out
• Project management skills

Garold D. Oberlender is professor emeritus in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where he served for 35 years as coordinator of the graduate program in construction engineering and project management. He is also a co-author of Estimating Construction Costs, Sixth Edition and Formwork for Concrete Structures, Fourth Edition.

Gary R. Spencer, Ph.D., PE, worked over 30 years in the engineering and construction industry on hydropower, pipelines, roads, buildings mines and process plants.  He is a former professor of construction management and construction engineering. He has taught courses in Planning, Scheduling and Control, Construction Estimating, Contract Administration and Resource Management.

Rose Mary Lewis, P.E., retired vice president of engineering and construction, started her engineering career with the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation.  She worked for the Iowa Department of Transportation and enjoyed an expansive career in the natural gas industry (NGI).  She has experience in managing information technology and communication system projects.