Unit 1 The Owner's Perspective 1
Section 1 The Project Life Cycle 1
Section 2 Major Types of Construction 6
Section 3 Selection of Professional Services 11
Exercises 17
Unit 2 Organizing for Project Management 20
Section 1 What is Project Management? 20
Section 2 Professional Construction Management 23
Section 3 Leadership and Motivation for the Project Team 27
Exercises 29
Unit 3 Labor,Material and Equipment Utilization 31
Section 1 Factors Affecting Job-Site Productivity 31
Section 2 Material Procurement and Delivery 35
Section 3 Construction Equipment 39
Exercises 44
Unit 4 Economic Evaluation of Facility Investments 46
Section 1 Basic Concepts of Economic Evaluation 46
Section 2 Investment Profit Measures 49
Section 3 Methods of Economic Evaluation 53
Exercises 56
Unit 5 Bidding and Tendering of Construction Projects 59
Section 1 Bidding Procedure of Construction Projects 59
Section 2 How to Bid on Projects in Competitive Bidding 66
Exercises 70
Unit 6 Contract Management of Construction Projects 73
Section 1 Types of Agreements 73
Section 2 Changes in Contract 79
Section 3 Claims,Disputes,Arbitration and Mediation in Contract 83
Exercises 87
Unit 7 Legal Basis of International Projects 93
Section 1 Introduction of International Conditions of Contract 93
Section 2 Bonds and Insurance 103
Section 3 Construction Manager(CM)Contractors 109
Exercises 113
Unit 8 Construction Planning 117
Section 1 Basic Concepts in the Development of Construction Plans 117
Section 2 Defining Work Tasks 120
Section 3 Defining Precedence Relationships Among Activities 125
Exercises 128
Unit 9 Time Control for Construction Projects 130
Section 1 The Critical Path Method 130
Section 2 Activity Float and Schedules 133
Section 3 Presenting Project Schedules 136
Section 4 Scheduling with Uncertain Durations 141
Exercises 145
Unit 10 Quality Control and Safety During Construction 148
Section 1 Quality and Safety Concerns in Construction 148
Section 2 Total Quality Control 152
Section 3 Quality Control by Statistical Methods 156
Section 4 Safety 158
Exercises 164
Unit 11 Organization and Use of Project Information 167
Section 1 Computerized Organization and Use of Information 167
Section 2 Relational Model of Databases 171
Section 3 Information Transfer and Flow 178
Exercises 181
Unit 12 Model Interoperability in Building Information Modeling(BIM) 183
Section 1 Introduction about BIM 183
Section 2 Industry Foundation Classes(IFC) 187
Section 3 BIM Interoperability 191
Exercises 196
工程管理专业英语翻译 200
英文科技论文写作方法简介 222