PROJECT MANAGEMENT: THE MANAGERIAL PROCESS, 8TH
EDITION ACTUAL 2025/2026 COMPLETE NEWEST VERSION
Decision Making
Important to get good advice early in the project---initiation
phase
Progression
Projects build up slowly as workers and equipment are
brought to the project and mobilized. Early on only a few
activities may occur, but once mobilization is complete work
proceeds at a rapid pace until the end, when production slows
down and the last remaining items are wrapped up. S-curve
reflects this.
Line represents cash flow and project completion
Three curves: actual, expected, and initial
Engineering
Heavy or horizontal construction
Highway, railroad, bridges, utility, dams
,Industrial
Emphasis on production
Project requires a unique team to plan, design, construct and
maintain the project
By use
-Residential building construction
-Commercial and institutional construction
-Infrastructure and heavy construction
-Industrial construction
-Environmental construction
Categories of construction projects
By size: by ownership, by scope
,Residential construction
Includes single family houses and apartment building
complexes
Privately funded by individual owners or developers
Developers serve as surrogate owners and take charge,
making contractual agreements for design and constructors
and financing the sale of the completed structures
Designs performed by architects and engineers
Construction executed by builders who hire subcontractors for
the structural, mechanical, electrical and other specialty work
Industrial Projects
Involve large scale projects with a high degree of
technological complexity such as oil refineries, steel mills,
chemical processing plants and coal-fired or nuclear power
plants
Owners are deeply involved in development
Prefer to work with designers-builders such that the total time
for the completion of the project can be shortened
, Commercial Buildings
Schools, universities, medical clinics, hospitals, sports
stadiums, shopping centers, warehouses, offices, hotels
Privately funded, though some projects like schools,
courthouses and city offices are publicly funded
Owner may or may not be familiar with construction industry
practices but they're usually able to select competent
professional consultants and arrange the financing of the
constructed facilities themselves
Specialty architects and engineers engaged for designing a
specific building,
Builders/contractors my also be specialized only in that
building
Infrastructure and heavy construction
Include highways, mass transit systems, tunnels, bridges,
pipelines, drainage systems and sewage treatment plants
EDITION ACTUAL 2025/2026 COMPLETE NEWEST VERSION
Decision Making
Important to get good advice early in the project---initiation
phase
Progression
Projects build up slowly as workers and equipment are
brought to the project and mobilized. Early on only a few
activities may occur, but once mobilization is complete work
proceeds at a rapid pace until the end, when production slows
down and the last remaining items are wrapped up. S-curve
reflects this.
Line represents cash flow and project completion
Three curves: actual, expected, and initial
Engineering
Heavy or horizontal construction
Highway, railroad, bridges, utility, dams
,Industrial
Emphasis on production
Project requires a unique team to plan, design, construct and
maintain the project
By use
-Residential building construction
-Commercial and institutional construction
-Infrastructure and heavy construction
-Industrial construction
-Environmental construction
Categories of construction projects
By size: by ownership, by scope
,Residential construction
Includes single family houses and apartment building
complexes
Privately funded by individual owners or developers
Developers serve as surrogate owners and take charge,
making contractual agreements for design and constructors
and financing the sale of the completed structures
Designs performed by architects and engineers
Construction executed by builders who hire subcontractors for
the structural, mechanical, electrical and other specialty work
Industrial Projects
Involve large scale projects with a high degree of
technological complexity such as oil refineries, steel mills,
chemical processing plants and coal-fired or nuclear power
plants
Owners are deeply involved in development
Prefer to work with designers-builders such that the total time
for the completion of the project can be shortened
, Commercial Buildings
Schools, universities, medical clinics, hospitals, sports
stadiums, shopping centers, warehouses, offices, hotels
Privately funded, though some projects like schools,
courthouses and city offices are publicly funded
Owner may or may not be familiar with construction industry
practices but they're usually able to select competent
professional consultants and arrange the financing of the
constructed facilities themselves
Specialty architects and engineers engaged for designing a
specific building,
Builders/contractors my also be specialized only in that
building
Infrastructure and heavy construction
Include highways, mass transit systems, tunnels, bridges,
pipelines, drainage systems and sewage treatment plants
