Practical Construction Planning and Control Using Microsoft Project

An Illustrative Guide
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-79114-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 280 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 918 g

Practical Construction Planning and Control Using Microsoft Project serves as a practical guide, explaining how to implement the Critical Path Method (CPM) in construction projects using Microsoft Project, filling a clear gap in the academic literature. For working professionals, it provides an all-in-one guide to construction project management using Microsoft Project, which can be used for self-learning or training purposes. The book provides project managers with definitive reports covering every aspect of project management, including time, cost, resources, work, and cash flow, as well as custom-built dashboard reports for effective project management.

This textbook provides a brief description of the CPM phases of planning, scheduling, and control. Using a consistent example project throughout every chapter of the book, each CPM phase is explained using the relevant Microsoft Project commands and functionalities, accompanied by explanations and illustrations that describe the implementation. Furthermore, the chapters offer detailed descriptions and steps for generating common construction scheduling deliverables, including network diagrams, Gantt chart schedules, and cash flow reports.

Following an Introduction that lays out the essential concepts, the 13 chapters provide an implementation of Microsoft Project for planning, scheduling, resources, monitoring and control, time and cost updates, progress measurement using earned value analysis, and project reporting.

By successfully combining the details of CPM as a management technique with illustrated guidance on Microsoft Project, the book presents an ideal teaching tool for use in construction management, construction engineering, and project management degree programs, as well as for professionals eager to learn construction project scheduling using the widely available Microsoft Project software.

Zielgruppe

Professional Training and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abdel Aziz, Ahmed M.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Microsoft Programmierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Bauindustrie, Baugewerbe
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Project Planning

3. Project Scheduling

4. Planning and Scheduling Deliverables

5. Resources and Costs

6. Resources and Costs Deliverables

7. Resource Levelling and Allocation

8. Project Updating

9. Time Updating the Example Project

10. Auto Cost Updating the Example Project

11. Manual Cost Updating the Example Project

12. Earned Value Analysis

13. Working with Reports

Über Autor(innen)

Ahmed M. Abdel Aziz is a Construction Management Associate Professor at the University of Washington (UW). For the last 20 years at UW, he offered teaching and training on several topics, including project planning and control, cost estimating for commercial and heavy civil projects, computer applications in construction, project economics, modeling the life-cycle cost of capital projects, quantitative risk analysis, and construction project management. Aziz holds the UW award and the honor of being a P. D. Koon Endowed Professor of Construction Management. Aziz worked as Project Analyst and Project Controls Engineer for a heavy civil company in Canada. Through consulting, he provides training for companies and national professional associations on construction project management, project planning and control, cost estimating, and Primavera and Microsoft Project for construction scheduling. Aziz is also known for his research on using the alternative project delivery system – public-private partnerships (P3) for the development of public infrastructure. He published in leading academic journals in the USA, Canada, and the UK on performance measurement, time and cost prediction using statistical analysis, liquidated damages in heavy civil projects, successful delivery of P3, P3 force-majeure and change-in-law risks, payment mechanisms, and unsolicited proposals. Aziz holds a doctoral degree in civil engineering in the area of construction engineering and management. He is also Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineers.