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Construction operations manual of policies and procedures
Fully revised throughout, the new edition of this practical guide offers a wealth of proven strategies for effectively running a construction business, delivering high-quality projects on time and within budget, and maximizing profits?all gleaned from the authors' decades-long experience in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education LLC.,
c2014.
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| Edición: | 5th ed. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A. About the authors
- B. Preface
- C. Introduction
- D. What this manual will do for you
- 1. Section 1: company organization and quality assurance program
- Section description and use
- Company statement of operations
- Organizational structure and corporate staff functions
- Organization charts
- Jobsite structures?large and small projects
- Document generation, signing authorities, and communication
- Quality concept and quality policy
- Business development approach and project participation
- Marketing services and support
- 2. Section 2: company and project administration
- Section description
- Use of the operations manual
- Correspondence
- Files and file management
- Recovering a letter previously mailed
- Field labor time reporting
- Administrative time reporting
- Project administrative activity list
- Expenses and reimbursements
- 3. Section 3: general contracts
- Section description
- Contract structures, relationships, and the contracting parties
- Responsibilities of the contracting parties
- General principles of contracts as applied to construction
- Key principles of general contracts
- General contract bonds and insurance
- Shop drawing "approval"
- Equals and substitutions
- Responsibility to "coordinate": use and abuse
- The schedule of values
- Requisitions for payment and contract retainage
- Liquidated damages
- Guarantees and warranties
- 4. Section 4: project engineering
- Section description
- Trade contracts and subcontracts
- Project files
- Subcontractor summary and telephone log
- Subcontractor/supplier reference form
- Transmittal form letter procedure and use
- Subcontract and purchase order distribution procedure
- Subcontractor schedule of values
- Shop drawing and submittal management
- Submittal requirements and procedures
- Subcontractor delivery requirements
- Request for information
- Project meetings
- Preparing for project close-outs at project start-up
- Securing lien waivers
- Securing subvendor certified payroll reports
- Backcharges
- The punchlist: expediting final completion
- Securing subcontractor/supplier guarantees and warranties
- Subvendor performance evaluation
- Project close-out checklist
- Productivity
- 5. Section 5: site superintendence
- The site superintendent function?section description
- Responsibilities of the site superintendent
- Field organization
- Site utilization program
- Field office mobilization
- Jobsite administrative mobilization
- Jobsite mobilization checklist
- Subcontractor summary and jobsite phone log book
- Daily field report
- Equipment use release form
- Preconstruction survey
- Field engineering, layout, and survey control
- Excavations?special precautions
- Cutting structural elements
- Control of materials embedded in concrete
- Construction photographs
- Managing time and material
- Field purchases procedure
- Winter precautions
- As-built drawings
- The site superintendent as project leader
- Hot work permit
- Jobsite equipment use, operation, and maintenance
- Building commissioning and turnover to the owner
- 6. Section 6: safety and loss control
- Section description and company policy
- Safety and loss control responsibilities and employee participation
- Jobsite safety program
- Jobsite safety meetings
- Accident investigation, reporting, and records
- Osha's hazard communication standard and safety data sheets.
- 7. Section 7: design-build project administration
- Section description
- Creating the design-build team
- Consideration of a new business entity
- Creating the design-build team
- The bridging approach to design
- Extracting the owner's program
- Design-build projects in the public sector
- The evaluation process
- Safety issues
- Quality issues
- Comprehensive list of contract documents issued by the design-build institute of america
- 8. Section 8: the preparation and processing of change orders
- Section description
- Contract-related change order provisions
- Presentation of the pco or cor must be clear and concise
- Conditions that create change orders
- Types of change order requests
- Costs to be considered when assemblinga change order
- The construction change directive (CCD)
- Roadblocks to acceptance of change orders
- Protocol for change orders, premium costs, winter conditions
- 9. Section 9: construction disputes, claims and resolutions
- General
- When negotiations fail
- Some disputes occur in the bid proposal process
- Promissory estoppel
- Other contentious disputes
- The total cost approach
- Differing conditions
- Type i and type ii differing conditions
- Owner's obligation to disclose superior knowledge
- Delays and potential acceleration claims
- Acceleration: recognizing a delay but requiring the contractor to meet the initial contract schedule
- Claiming extended home office overhead
- Alternatives to litigation: mediation, arbitration, dispute resolution, fact finding
- A checklist of documents to be assembled when preparing to institute a claim
- 10. Section 10: progress schedules and funds analysis
- Managing schedules
- Schedule types and uses
- Schedule preparation and development
- Baseline schedule distribution and final confirmation
- The cash-flow projection
- Schedule updating considerations
- 11. Section 11: building information modeling
- Section description
- Why contractors value bim: the 3d approach
- How does bim impact the role of the project manager?
- Building information modeling: 3d, 4d, 5d
- The 5d aspect of bim
- 12. Section 12: green buildings and sustainability
- Introduction to green building and leed
- How does leed work?
- Public- and private-sector green buildings
- Costs and financial aspects of green buildings
- The learning curve for project managers and construction managers
- Sustainable construction
- Basic sustainable construction goalsfor site and building
- The national renewable energy laboratory (NREL): lessons learned.