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Construction and Management, 2nd Edition
- Authors: Daniel W. Halpin, Ronald W. Woodhead
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Pages: 444 pages
- Hardcover
- October 7, 1997
This textbook is written to help
students gain a perspective regarding the industry and some cross-cutting
understanding of the things to be mastered if they
wish to be successful as construction managers. A considerable amount of skill and knowledge is required to accomplish this task
successfully. The student must be aware of the resources-money,
machines, material, and men- that are basic to realizing a
construction project. These basic resources are often referred to as
the four M's of construction. They must be carefully and
professionally committed and managed within a construction
environment of contracts, through the communication of ideas and
under the changing impact of weather, unforeseen events, and varying
conditions.
The text material is built around a set
of chapters that introduce the nature of the four basic resources
(money, machines, material, and men) and the concepts for their
management. After initial chapters on the construction environment
and the traditional building process approach to project design and
construction, the student is introduced to the legal and management
structures within which the basic resources are managed. Finally,
chapters on Safety, Estimating, and Cost Control attempt to give the
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Planning and Analysis of Construction Operations
- Authors: Daniel W. Halpin, Leland S. Riggs
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Pages: 381 pages
- Hardcover
- March 3, 1992
The objective of this text is to
introduce concepts that form the basis for a scientific or
analytical approach to the subject area of design and evaluation of
productive processes as they are encountered in construction. The
time is ripe for a science of construction operations. This text
builds on techniques that were originally developed in the previous
book. The CYCLONE modeling system provides a quantitative way of
viewing, planning, analyzing, and controlling construction processes
and operations. This system provides a Framework in which operations
can be reduced to simple flowcharts that help in studying the
interaction of the resources required as well as the determination
of rates of production at the work site.
Supporting techniques such as queuing
theory and line-of-balance methods are presented to provide a
background to the student of quantitative modeling methods. The main
body of the book focuses on the use of simulation techniques to
model and evaluate repetitive construction operations. A wide
variety of examples from all areas of construction are presented to
demonstrate the power and simplicity of simulation in analyzing
production of complex construction operations. Methods of balancing
production rates among interfacing processes and optimally
allocating resources for maximum production are presented. |
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Financial and Cost Concepts for Construction Management
- Author: Daniel W. Halpin
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Pages: 415 pages
- Hardcover
- March 18, 1985
The objective of this text is to present
both company and project levels of revenue and expense management in
an introductory but integrated format to give the student a
coordinated overview of how data at both levels interact. In many
cases, managers have engineering or technology backgrounds that
provide excellent preparation for solving technical problems in the
field. However, their exposure to the financial context within which
engineering and construction occur (if covered at all) may be
limited to accounting courses oriented to non-construction
disciplines such as manufacturing.
These courses often emphasize the rudiments of bookkeeping
without providing the student with a good understanding of how
familiarity with accounting technique can aid the engineering
manager in the field. Such courses prepare the student to be a
bookkeeper rather than a manager.
The treatment of financial and cost
concepts in this text is oriented toward engineering and technology
students with no accounting background. The early chapters introduce
accounting and bookkeeping principles as they relate to
construction-oriented companies. The intent is not to prepare the
student to set up the books of a company or to actually perform
accounting functions. Rather, the objective is to provide future
managers an understanding of financial accounting processes and to
give them enough information to communicate at an informed level
with accountants and bookkeepers. Although most of the material is
presented within the context of a construction company, the
information discussed and the financial concepts developed are
equally applicable to a firm specializing in engineering design. |
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MicroCYCLONE Users Manual for Construction Operations, Version
2.5
- Author: Daniel W. Halpin
- Publisher: Learning Systems, Inc.
- Pages: 110 pages
- Soft cover
MicroCYCLONE is a microcomputer based
simulation program designed specifically for modeling and analyzing
site level processes which are cyclic in nature. In broader terms,
it can be used to model construction operations which involve the
interaction of tasks competing for resources. The identification of
resource units associated with a construction operation, the
elemental work tasks with their related durations, and the resource
unit flow routes through the work tasks are the basic rationale for
the modeling of construction operations.
MicroCYCLONE is based on classical
networking techniques. It used the concepts of CYCLONE (CYCLic
Operations NEwork) modeling. The CYCLONE approach provides a
graphical format in terms of which the process of interest can be
defined and solved using simulation techniques
MicroCYCLONE is a powerful tool for the
manager who is responsible for designing a construction process. By
changing initial conditions and resource specifications, different
system responses result so that the user can select that mix of
resources, work sequences, and technologies that best achieves
his/her objectives. In this way, the user can experiment with the
design of the construction operation and evaluate the economics and
productivities of competing construction methods.
This manual is intended to serve both
the new and the experienced MicroCYCLONE user. The new user will be
introduced to MicroCYCLONE through a simple network example.
Step-by-step instructions are provided so that the first time
user can run his/her first simulation. The experienced
user will find this manual to be a useful reference on all the
capabilities of MicroCYCLONE. | |