Project Management for the Built Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction to Project Management

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   Pages 1-14

3. Project Life Cycles, Stakeholders and Organizations

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   Pages 15-26

4. Project Management Processes

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   Pages 27-46

5. Project Integration Management

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   Pages 47-61

6. Project Scope Management

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   Pages 63-77

7. Project Time Management

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   Pages 79-96

8. Project Cost Management

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   Pages 97-112

9. Project Quality Management

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   Pages 113-125

10. Project Human Resource Management

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    Pages 127-142

11. Project Communications Management

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    Pages 143-157

12. Project Risk Management

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    Pages 159-176

13. Project Procurement Management

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    Pages 177-193

14. Project Ethics and Professional Conduct

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    Pages 195-201

15. Back Matter

    Pages 203-205

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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.

• Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Construction Project Management
• Project Life Cycles
• 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
• Engineering Economics

• Department of Building, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  Low Sui Pheng

Dr Low Sui Pheng is a professor of building at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, where he previously served as the head and vice dean. He teaches construction project management, a field in which he has extensively published, researched and consulted, both in Singapore and overseas. A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), he holds a DSc degree from the University of Birmingham, UK and a PhD from the University College London. He currently serves as the director of the Centre for Project Management and Construction Law at the National University of Singapore, Singapore.

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