Location-Based Management for Construction

Location-Based Management for Construction: Planning, Scheduling and Control (Spon Research)

With extensive case studies for illustration, this is a practitioner’s guide to an entirely new production system for construction management using flowline scheduling.

Covering the entire process of presenting a comprehensive management system – from design, through measurement, scheduling, and visualization and control – its emphasis is on reducing cost and increasing quality.

Drawing its components together into a management system, the authors not only include theory and explanations of how and why it works, but also examine and present a suite of methods for successful project implementation.

Perfect as a how-to guide for researchers and advanced construction students to discover the simple application of the new techniques, and invaluable for acquiring the practical tools for planning and controlling projects.

Table of Contents

Section One: Introduction to planning and control
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The development of activity-based planning and scheduling systems
Chapter 3 The development of location-based planning and scheduling systems
Chapter 4 Approaches to planning control

Section Two: Location-based planning
Chapter 5 A new theory for location-based planning
Chapter 6 Location-based planning methods
Chapter 7 Using location-based planning methodologies

Section Three: Location-based control
Chapter 8 A new theory for location-based control
Chapter 9 Location-based control methods
Chapter 10 Using location-based control methodologies

Section Four: The location-based management system
Chapter 11 Location-based management system
Chapter 12 Implementing LBMS
Chapter 13 Planning project types
Chapter 14 Planning and control of linear projects

Section Five: Case studies
Chapter 15 Case study 1: Opus Business Park
Chapter 16 Case study 2: St Joseph’s NE Tower addition
Chapter 17 Multiple case study components