Author: Thomas E. GlavinichAssociated General Contractors
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: delivery, documentation, risk, reduction, project, management, guide, building, construction, contractors
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-07
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0470056215
ISBN-13: 9780470056219

Written for contractors and endorsed by the Associated General Contractors of AmericaWritten specifically for contractors, this "how-to" book enables you to meet the challenges of green building construction. You’ll discover how constructing environmentally friendly, sustainable buildings influences project management, delivery, documentation, and risk. Moreover, the book guides you through these important considerations at all phases of a green construction project, including:Bidding and contractingManaging green design when the contractor works as a design builderSubcontractingProcurem

Author: Stephen Fishman J.D.
Publisher: NOLO
Keywords: contractors, independent, working
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-08-29
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 1413306578
ISBN-13: 9781413306576

Author: David Chappell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: contractors, building, letters, standard
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2008-04-11
List price: $104.99
ISBN-10: 1405177896
ISBN-13: 9781405177894

Whenever a contractor undertakes work using one of the standard building contracts, however small the job, writing a good many letters will be involved. Some will be formal notices it is necessary to give; others will be letters it is prudent to send. This book provides a set of over 300 standard letters for use with the standard forms of building contract and sub-contract and aims to cover all the common situations which contractors will encounter when involved in a contract. It has been substantially revised to take account of the 2005 suite of JCT contracts, together with changes in

Author: Jim Wild
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: contractors, services, building, management, site
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 1997-01-15
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0419204504
ISBN-13: 9780419204503

Managing building services contractors can prove to be a minefield. The most successful jobs will always be those where building site managers have first built teams focused on tackling issues that might cause adversarial attitudes later on and jeopardize the project. The author shows how a simple common management approach can improve site managers’ competency in overseeing building services contractos, sub traders and specialists, and maximize the effectiveness of time spent on building services. By providing an account of building services from the site management rather than the corp

Author: August Domel
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: contractors, calculations, engineering, basic
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0070180024
ISBN-13: 9780070180024

Save BIG BUCK$ on consulting engineering fees! Why pay expensive consulting engineers every time you’re faced with changes to residential and light construction plans? Now you can proceed on your own with complete confidence thanks to Basic Engineering Calculations for Contractors, by August DOmel--your one-stop, jargon-free guide to the properties, loads, stresses and tolerances of wood, steel and concrete members. The author’s done all the heavy number-crunching for you, so you get instant, ready-to-apply data on: support reactions; bending and shear stresses; deflections; dead a

Author: Michael Kitchens
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Keywords: contractors, building, management, project, estimating
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1996-02
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0784401489
ISBN-13: 9780784401484

This book provides guidelines to the day-to-day processes of construction estimating and project management. It is a useful overview for both beginners and seasoned professionals who seek a better understanding of the skills and abilities required of a good estimator and project manager. These include decision-making skills, knowledge of labor, equipment, contracting and subcontracting, financial considerations and cost control, jobsite safety, schedules, claims, delays, quality assurance, and more. This book also provides information on ethics, training, computers, and real-life experiences.

Author: Thomas C. Schleifer
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: guide, survival, contractors, construction
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1990-03-02
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0471513245
ISBN-13: 9780471513247

The turnover rate for companies in the construction industry is high. This book identifies the ten key elements of contractor failure and shows how to avoid them. Each element of failure is defined, illustrated by real examples, and ways are discussed to avoid or minimize the risks involved. The final chapter shows how to bring all these elements together to develop a positive and workable management strategy. This survival guide should prove invaluable to the 1.4 million individual construction-industry businesses in this country.