Overview
- Presents the key project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) concepts and principles, using industry practices to explain how these concepts and principles can be observed, experienced, and applied in real life
- Provides a step-by-step guide on how each of the PMBOK areas can be learned systematically from start to finish for use in the construction industry
- Includes comprehensive revision questions at the end of each chapter, which allow readers to reflect on what they have learned
Part of the book series: Management in the Built Environment (MABUEN)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Keywords
- 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
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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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Project Management for the Built Environment
Book Subtitle: Study Notes
Authors: Low Sui Pheng
Series Title: Management in the Built Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6992-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6991-8Published: 06 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4980-5Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6992-5Published: 27 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2522-0047
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0055
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 205
Topics: Construction Management, Project Management, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing