Construction planning and scheduling

Overview: Construction Planning and Scheduling, Fourth Edition offers broad coverage of all major scheduling subjects. This comprehensive resource is designed for construction management, planning and scheduling. It follows a logical progression, introducing precedence diagramming early and following with chapters on activity durations, resource allocations, network schedules, and more. It reflects current trends in scheduling (short-interval scheduling, computer scheduling, linear scheduling etc.) and includes chapters on arrow diagramming and PERT. With an eye on application, it includes a unique discussion of contract provisions related to scheduling and incorporates a sample project throughout.

Introduction -- History of scheduling -- Planning and scheduling -- Bar charts: -- Shortcomings of bar charts -- Sports facility project -- Value of bar charts -- Scheduling networks -- Other scheduling approaches -- Work breakdown structure -- Reasons for planning and scheduling in construction -- Review questions -- Developing A Network Model: -- Steps in building a network model: -- Defining activities -- Ordering activities -- Drawing the network diagram -- Assigning durations to activities -- Assigning resources and costs -- Calculating early and late start/finish times -- Identify the critical path -- Scheduling activity start/finish times -- Final comments -- Review questions -- Precedence Diagrams: -- Precedence (activity-on-node) networks -- Activity relationships: -- Basics about precedence diagrams -- Calculations on a precedence network -- Independent float and interfering float -- Computations for different-activity relationships -- Final comments -- Review questions -- Determining Activity Durations: -- Estimating -- Types of estimates: -- Conceptual estimates -- Detailed estimates -- Conducting a detailed estimate -- Estimating durations -- Scheduling issues -- Fact…