ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the reader with a basic understanding of construction management topics. It introduces the reader to project delivery, beginning with the traditional design-bid-build (DBB) method and the more recent construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC), design-bid (DB), and integrated project delivery (IPD) methods. The book discusses a variety of safety tools and documentations involving workers' compensation insurance, drug and alcohol testing, hazardous material planning, and heavy-civil equipment management. It describes some of the activities which include value engineering, shop drawing review, and request for information (RFI) management. The book includes a detailed discussion of project close-out. Close-out is often the role of the project engineer and the foreman because the project manager (PM) and the superintendent have both moved off to another project.