This text consists of four sections:

• The overview section introduces readers to the concepts of team play, bonding, value engineering, and partnering.
• The estimating section is developed in the context of a project's evolution, showing increasing detail as the project progresses, thereby feeding information to the construction manager to support sounder design and construction decisions. A new chapter has been added to this section. "Assemblies Estimating" shows the reader how to do accurate estimates at the schematic stage of design.
• The scheduling section covers several methods but focuses on the Critical Path Method. Activity definition, the creation of a logic diagram, calculation of activity durations, and network calculations are all explained.
• The project control section looks at how the integration of the schedule and the estimate forms the work plan that accurately projects resource usage.