Contractor's Job Book

Contractor's Job Book
Author: Writing Journal
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-03-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544287874

Keep Track of That Job. This logbook is a great way to keep track of jobs. It has space for client details, hours worked, material costs and much more, Can also be used for estimations, quotes, and staff management. Keep all this information in this handy logbook and you'll never scramble for information again. Makes a great gift for the carpenter, plumber, electrician, or handyman in your life.

The Client Role in Successful Construction Projects

The Client Role in Successful Construction Projects
Author: Jason Challender
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2019-05-08
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1351674188

The Client Role in Successful Construction Projects is a practical guide for clients on how to initiate, procure and manage construction projects and developments. This book is written from the perspective of the client initiating a construction project as part of a business venture and differs from most available construction literature which can externalise the client as a risk to be managed by the design team. The book provides a practical framework for new and novice clients undertaking construction, giving them a voice and enabling them to: Understand the challenges that they and the project are likely to face. Communicate and interact effectively with key stakeholders and professionals within the industry. Understand in straightforward terms where they can have a positive impact on the project. Put in place a client-side due diligence process. Reduce their institutional risk and the risk of project failure. Discover how their standard models are able to co-exist and even transfer to a common client-side procedure for managing a construction project. Written by clients, for clients, this book is highly recommended not only for clients, but for construction industry professionals who want to develop their own skills and enhance their working relationship with their clients. A supporting website for the book will be available, which will give practical examples of the points illustrated in the book and practical advice from specialists in the field.

Construction Incentivization

Construction Incentivization
Author: Sai On Cheung
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-05-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031289595

This book proposes ways to make construction project incentive schemes effective. In this book, construction incentivization is used as a collective term that includes all forms of incentive arrangements aiming to engender extra effort of the contracting parties for the improvement of project performance. This book addresses two questions: i) why so many construction incentive schemes are not delivering the desired outcome? and ii) what will make incentive works under different circumstances? This book contributes to the body of knowledge in construction incentivization by offering conceptualization, showcases and practice suggestions including guidelines for the planning of construction incentive schemes.

Construction Innovation

Construction Innovation
Author: Finn Orstavik
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1118655591

Construction innovation is an important but contested concept, both in industry practice and academic reflection and research. A fundamental reason for this is the nature of the construction industry itself: the industry and the value creation activities taking place there are multi-disciplinary, heterogeneous, distributed and often fragmented. This book takes a new approach to construction innovation, revealing different perspectives, set in a broader context. It coalesces multiple theoretical and practice-based views in order to stimulate reflection and to prepare the ground for further synthesis. By being clear, cogent and unambiguous on the most basic definitions, it can mobilise a plurality of perspectives on innovation to promote fresh thinking on how it can be studied, enabled, measured, and propagated across the industry. This book does not gloss over the real-life complexity of construction innovation. Instead, its authors look explicitly at the challenges that conceptual issues entail and by making their own position clear, they open up fresh intellectual space for reflection. Construction Innovation examines innovation from different positions and through different conceptual lenses to reveal the richness that the theoretical perspectives offer to our understanding of the way that the construction sector actors innovate at both project and organizational levels. The editors have brought together here leading scholars to deconstruct the concept of innovation and to discuss the merits of different perspectives, their commonalities and their diversity. The result is an invaluable sourcebook for those studying and leading innovation in the design, the building and the maintenance of our built environment.

Construction Review

Construction Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 832
Release: 1974
Genre: Construction industry
ISBN:

Issues for 1955 accompanied by supplement: Construction volume and costs, 1915-1954.