Research Catalog

Title

Location-based management for construction : planning, scheduling and control / Russell Kenley and Olli Seppänen.

Author

Kenley, Russell.

Publication

London ; New York : Spon Press, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Seppänen, Olli.

Description

xxx, 554 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

This is a practitioner's guide to a production system for construction management using flowline scheduling. Covering the entire process of presenting a management system - from design, through measurement, scheduling, and visualisation and control - its emphasis is on reducing cost and increasing quality.

Subjects

• Flowline
• Byggnadsteknik
• Production scheduling > Data processing
• Location-based services
• Building > Superintendence > Data processing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction -- The development of activity-based planning and scheduling systems -- The development of location-based planning and scheduling systems -- Approaches to planning control -- A new theory for location-based planning -- Location-based planning methods -- Using location-based planning methodologies -- A new theory for location-based control -- Location-based control methods -- Using location-based control methodologies -- Location-based management system (LBMS) -- Implementing LBMS -- Planning project types --Planning and control of linear projects -- Case study 1: Opus business park -- Case study 2: St. Joseph's NE tower addition -- Multiple case study components.

ISBN

• 9780415370509
• 0415370507
• 9780203030417
• 0203030419

LCCN

2009011124

OCLC

• ocn317118189
• 317118189
• SCSB-9243052

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library