Construction Project Planning and Scheduling

This book thoroughly covers the topic of the need and use of project planning, scheduling, and control in the construction industry. It approaches the subject—and its related terminology and techniques—from a conceptual viewpoint that reinforces learning with increasingly difficult levels of analytical problems. KEY TOPICS Chapter topics cover the development of work breakdown structures, precedence grids, precedence network node diagrams, analytical methods for network solutions, resource scheduling, leveling and allocation, and project-scheduling simulation with PERT application. For use in construction management and technology, and civil engineering.