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Business management in construction enterprise

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Salford University of Salford 2008Description: 248p. ill. 23cmISBN:
  • 8389780577
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 658.404 $2 18
Partial contents:
Construction organizations: types of construction organizations; organization design; classical organization design; modern organization theory -- Risk management: risk; taxonomy of risks; risk identification -- Value management -- Cost: introduction to newer techniques; genetic algorithms in construction, an introduction; an introduction to fuzzy logic; an introduction to chaos theory; an introduction to complexity theory; the origins and interactions of biomimicry concepts in innovation and change -- Decision making in construction: quantitative decision making, introduction -- Performance, productivity and benchmarking: performance measurement and productivity evaluation; benchmarking - value creation metrics
Marketing: marketing applied to construction industry -- Budgeting in enterprise management: the nature and objectives of budgeting; the business model of construction and assembly enterprises; assembly and construction company budget structure; the enterprise revenues and costs budget; the budget of revenues and expenses of an enterprise -- Construction budgeting: construction costs; the construction budget; cost control for a construction contract; organizational aspects of construction budgeting -- Budget of the contractor's plant and temporary facilities: cost of operation of the depot; the budgeting of the equipment and transport depot; monitoring of activity of the equipment and transport depot -- Control of activity of the enterprise: the nature and system of control of activity of an enterprise; profit and loss account of an enterprise; recording of the enterprise revenues and costs; report on activity of the enterprise
Summary: Detailed textbook on business management in construction enterprise provides readers with the framework with which to describe the business context of construction organisations, recognise the impact of construction organisations on the business performance of the industry and describe appropriate organisational structures within the context of business performance.Summary: One of seven titles in the Construction Managers' Library series, a set of manuals conveying all the information necessary to develop civil engineering skills in the field of construction management.
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Book London Books 658.404 EAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 30076034

Construction organizations: types of construction organizations; organization design; classical organization design; modern organization theory -- Risk management: risk; taxonomy of risks; risk identification -- Value management -- Cost: introduction to newer techniques; genetic algorithms in construction, an introduction; an introduction to fuzzy logic; an introduction to chaos theory; an introduction to complexity theory; the origins and interactions of biomimicry concepts in innovation and change -- Decision making in construction: quantitative decision making, introduction -- Performance, productivity and benchmarking: performance measurement and productivity evaluation; benchmarking - value creation metrics

Marketing: marketing applied to construction industry -- Budgeting in enterprise management: the nature and objectives of budgeting; the business model of construction and assembly enterprises; assembly and construction company budget structure; the enterprise revenues and costs budget; the budget of revenues and expenses of an enterprise -- Construction budgeting: construction costs; the construction budget; cost control for a construction contract; organizational aspects of construction budgeting -- Budget of the contractor's plant and temporary facilities: cost of operation of the depot; the budgeting of the equipment and transport depot; monitoring of activity of the equipment and transport depot -- Control of activity of the enterprise: the nature and system of control of activity of an enterprise; profit and loss account of an enterprise; recording of the enterprise revenues and costs; report on activity of the enterprise

Detailed textbook on business management in construction enterprise provides readers with the framework with which to describe the business context of construction organisations, recognise the impact of construction organisations on the business performance of the industry and describe appropriate organisational structures within the context of business performance.

One of seven titles in the Construction Managers' Library series, a set of manuals conveying all the information necessary to develop civil engineering skills in the field of construction management.

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