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Project Management for the Built Environment [electronic resource] : Study Notes / by Low Sui Pheng.

By: Pheng, Low Sui [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Management in the Built Environment: Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018Edition: 1st ed. 2018.Description: XII, 205 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789811069925.Subject(s): Construction industry—Management | Project management | Industrial Management | Construction Management | Project Management | Industrial ManagementAdditional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification: 690.06 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Introduction to project management -- Project life cycles, stakeholders and organizations -- Project management processes -- Project integration management -- Project scope management -- Project time management -- Project cost management -- Project quality management -- Project human resource management -- Project communications management -- Project risk management -- Project procurement management -- Project ethics and professional conduct.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: This book presents the fundamentals of project management as applied in the built environment and more specifically for the construction industry. It presents the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) using practical examples to show how various project management principles and concepts can be applied in practice. Providing study notes for students and aspiring project management professionals in the construction industry, each of the 13 chapters includes a set of comprehensive revision questions that allow readers to reflect on what they have learned.    The book offers an introduction to what project management is all about as well as the project life cycles, stakeholders and organizations involved. It explains the project management processes and how these processes are applied in integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk and procurement management. It concludes with ethics and professional conduct in the project management profession.
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Introduction to project management -- Project life cycles, stakeholders and organizations -- Project management processes -- Project integration management -- Project scope management -- Project time management -- Project cost management -- Project quality management -- Project human resource management -- Project communications management -- Project risk management -- Project procurement management -- Project ethics and professional conduct.

This book presents the fundamentals of project management as applied in the built environment and more specifically for the construction industry. It presents the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) using practical examples to show how various project management principles and concepts can be applied in practice. Providing study notes for students and aspiring project management professionals in the construction industry, each of the 13 chapters includes a set of comprehensive revision questions that allow readers to reflect on what they have learned.    The book offers an introduction to what project management is all about as well as the project life cycles, stakeholders and organizations involved. It explains the project management processes and how these processes are applied in integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resource, communications, risk and procurement management. It concludes with ethics and professional conduct in the project management profession.

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