Constructability: A Tool for Project Management - Brossura

Khan, Sharmin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0367606860 ISBN 13: 9780367606862

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 2020

Riassunto

This book focuses on Constructability, a project management tool and its effectiveness in promotion of sustainable development and architecture. Constructability concentrates on the optimum use of construction knowledge and experience in planning, engineering, procurement and field operations to achieve overall project objectives. Keeping in view the requirement of promotion of sustainable architectural practices, the book is aimed at establishing effective relationship between constructability and sustainability, including application of the project management systems and guidelines for sustainable development, in a systematic manner.

Key Features

• Focuses on relationship between constructability and sustainability in detail, with respect to their definitions and historical background.





• Summarizes formulation of recommendations and guidelines for various design and construction practices





• Provides an updated information database having overview of constructability studies and researches conducted so far





• Explores association of sustainable development to project management issues





• Includes relevant case studies

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull'autore

Sharmin Khan is a graduate in Architecture from AMU, Aligarh and post graduate in Construction Engineering and Management from IIT, Delhi. She has a teaching experience of fourteen years collectively, in three Indian universities including AMU, Aligarh. Her research areas of interest are Construction management, Sustainable architecture and History. Her interaction with students during last couple of years encouraged her to publish books on ancient Indian and Indo-Islamic architecture also. She worked on Constructability issues during her post-graduation programme, which inspired her to conduct her doctoral studies in the same area. She obtained a Ph. D in Architecture from AMU, Aligarh, which focussed on the study of design and construction practices of sustainable architecture in India based on the concept of constructability. Her research work is oriented towards the study and correlation of construction management issues with sustainable development. She has presented and published research papers to promote the practices of constructability in Indian construction industry.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Focusing on Constructability as a project management tool and its effectiveness, book develops a positive and strong relationship between constructability and sustainability, thus, promoting the application of the project management systems and guidelines for sustainable development, in a systematic manner.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0367606860
• ISBN 13: 9780367606862
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 140
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania