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Control costs, pace construction, and fully utilize resources with Microsoft Project. An organized, well-planned schedule is a builder's best tool. Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft Project provides easy step-by-step instructions to help you master this powerful scheduling program. Get serious about developing a practical schedule before you begin your next building project, and reap the benefits!
Every chapter of Scheduling for Home Builders with Microsoft Project helps you learn and practice each new skill. The CD offers sample residential schedules. Learn how to:
- Create a realistic construction schedule.
- Document all changes to the schedule, and who made them.
- Assign and track resources and costs.
- Adjust time scales, milestones, and task links.
- Monitor and update the schedule.
- Print customized project reports.
- Communicate with trade contractors and home buyers.
From the Introduction
All home building projects entail coordinating the project plans and specifications, construction materials, craftspeople, construction equipment, and trade contractors to build the home. How you utilize these resources determines whether your project will run efficiently and progress in an organized fashion or end up in total disarray. By developing a schedule at the beginning of the project, you can better plan and arrange the tasks necessary to complete the project. An organized schedule is a builder's best tool for controlling the project parameters and costs of building a home.
Microsoft Project allows you to define tasks and view the interrelationships between them to develop a home construction project schedule. You can also use the software to define resources and their limits and costs to determine the cash flow for the project. A key feature of the software is its ability to sort the schedule by alternate sort criteria. For example, you can perform a sort by task responsibility that shows the craft foreperson or trade contractor who is responsible for the task completion.
The CD provided with this book includes sample schedules that you can use to practice the skills that are presented in each chapter. You must have Microsoft Project 2003 installed on your computer to access the files on the CD. There are two versions of Microsoft Project - standard and professional. The difference between the versions, besides price, is that the standard version is designed for a single user, whereas the professional version is designed to be used on a server and accessed by multiple users. The practice exercises in this book were created using Microsoft Office Project Standard 2003.
Contents
About the Authors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1: Introduction to Scheduling. Chapter 2: Creating the Microsoft Project Schedule. Chapter 3: Resources and Costs. Chapter 4: Monitoring and Updating Task Durations. Chapter 5: Updating Task Resources and Costs. Chapter 6: Reports. Index.
About the Authors
David Marchman is Professor of Construction Engineering Technology at the University of Southern Mississippi and associate director of the School of Construction. He teaches construction scheduling to students in the classroom and to home builders in the field through seminars and workshops.
Tulio Sulbaran PhD also teaches scheduling in the School of Construction at the University of Southern Mississippi. He shares his international expertise in residential architecture, engineering and construction as a scheduling and estimating consultant to residential construction companies. |
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