Construction Project Management: An Integrated Approach

As increasing demands and higher expectations are placed on project managers a need has arisen for an innovative book to enable managers to take on the ever-changing challenges involved in overseeing whole works and dealing with the conflicting needs of the many people involved in a construction project. Based on the author's observations and extensive experience, this book offers the practitioner or the student reader a new approach to project management in construction and engineering, increasing efficiency and communication at all stages while reducing costs, time and risk. It considers integrated project management, emphasizing the importance of effectively handling external factors in order to best achieve an on-schedule, on-budget result and focuses on good negotiation with clients and skilled team leadership.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. Project Life Cycles and Success Peter Fewings 2. Building the Client Business Case Peter Fewings 3. Project Definition Peter Fewings 4. Strategic Issues Peter Fewings 5. Construction Performance and Planning Peter Fewings Appendix 5. Critical Path Method 6. Organisational Structure, Culture and Leadership Martyn Jones and Peter Fewings 7. Engineering the Psycho-Productive Environment Peter Fewings 8. Managing Risk and Value Tony Westcott and Peter Fewings 9. Design Management Peter Fewings 10. Project Safety, Health and Environment Peter Fewings Appendix 10. Guidelines to Minimum Practice Requirements 11. The PFI Model Peter Fewings 12. The Emergence and Implementation of Supply Chain Management in Construction Martyn Jones 13. Quality and Customer Care Peter Fewings 14. Project Close and Systems Improvement Peter Fewings; contr. by Martyn Jones 15. Towards a more integrated approach Peter Fewings

About the Author :
Peter Fewings is a senior lecturer in project, production and financial management at the University of the West of England, where he is programme leader of its BSc(Hons) Construction Management courses and has set up two project management masters courses. He has worked as a planner and a project manager on a wide range of construction projects and maintains close contacts with the industry. He has research interests in Health and Safety and PFI. He works closely at the University of the West of England with Martyn Jones and Tony Westcott who have contributed to this book.

Review :
'The complexity of the subject matter has at last been reinforced in an informative document with a large helping of common sense ... written in a comprehensive and well structured manner.' – Building Engineer