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Focuses on sustainability elements to manage quality in
construction projects. Details the application of sustainability
principles at different stages of the project. Discusses quality
tools applicable to managing sustainability in projects. Provides
concise and complete information on how to achieve and manage
sustainability at all stages of the project. Offers an overview of
quality management in projects
Dealing with such a multi-layered and fungible intangible as
quality during the design and construction process is difficult for
all parties involved. To the architect, quality means an appealing
and enduring design, but to the builder, it means understandable
documents that, when acted upon, lead to an enduring, well-made
structure. To the owner, it is the end result: a building that is
not only fit for the purpose, but a positive addition to its
surroundings. Reconciling these seemingly contrasting priorities
requires processes that are embedded not just at the project level,
but within the entire enterprise with designer, builder, and owner
committed to integrating quality into all their business processes.
Quality Tools for Managing Construction Projects not only details
the importance of developing a comprehensive management system, but
provides the tools and techniques required to do so. The book
examines the usage and applications of tools and techniques in
different phases of a construction project, focusing on plan
quality, quality assurance, and quality control. Following the
construction cycle, Dr. Rumane delineates the quality tools and
their application, ending with the implementation of quality
systems throughout the entire design and construction cycle. The
book demonstrates how these tools can help in planning, executing,
monitoring, and controlling a project-evolving project management
into a system that ensures project deliverables consistently meet
the defined scope on schedule and within budget. The author's
systems perspective recognizes and supports the ideal collaborative
approach that modern design and construction projects need. Dr.
Rumane then demonstrates that successful quality management is more
than a series of handoffs between teams who've completed tasks.
This book provides the tools and techniques, management principles,
procedures, concepts, and methods to ensure the successful
completion of an oil and gas project while also ensuring the proper
design, procurement, and construction for making the project most
qualitative, competitive, and economical for safer operational
optimized performance. It discusses quality during design, FEED,
detailed engineering, selection of project teams, procurement
procedure of EPC contract, managing quality during mobilization,
procurement, execution, planning, scheduling, monitoring, control,
quality, and testing to achieve the desired results for an oil and
gas project. This book provides all the related information to
professional practitioners, designers, consultants, contractors,
quality managers, project managers, construction managers, and
academics/instructors involved in oil and gas projects and related
industries. Features Provides information on the various quality
tools used to manage construction projects from inception to
handover Discusses the life cycle phases, developed on systems
engineering approach, and how it is divided into manageable
activity/element/components segments to manage and control the
project Includes a wide range of tools, techniques, principles, and
procedures used to address quality management Covers quality
management systems and development of quality management systems
manuals Discusses quality and risk management, and health, safety,
and environmental management during the design and construction
process
The first edition published in 2010. The response was encouraging
and many people appreciated a book that was dedicated to quality
management in construction projects. Since it published, ISO 9000:
2008 has been revised and ISO 9000: 2015 has published. The new
edition will focus on risk-based thinking which must be considered
from the beginning and throughout the project life cycle. There are
quality-related topics such as Customer Relationship, Supplier
Management, Risk Management, Quality Audits, Tools for Construction
Projects, and Quality Management that were not covered in the first
edition. Furthermore, some figures and tables needed to be updated
to make the book more comprehensive.
This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality
in a project from start to finish. The book shows how to identify
risks at different processes, phases, and stages and offers
directions on how to mitigate and reduce risks using analysis,
evaluation, and monitoring. Risk Management Applications Used to
Sustain Quality in Projects: A Practical Guide focuses on applying
risk management principles to manage quality in all project
management processes, stages, and phases. The book discusses the
potential risks that may occur at the different phases of the
project life cycle, their effects on projects, and how to prevent
them. It explores all the process elements and activities of risk
management and provides steps on how to make the project more
qualitative, competitive, and economical. Risk management processes
are discussed at each project management processes and project
lifecycle phase/stage to help the reader understand how various
risks can occur and how to mitigate and reduce them. The main
audience for this book is project management professionals, quality
managers, systems engineers, construction managers, and risk
management professionals as well as industrial engineers,
academics, and students.
The book is developed to provide significant information and
guidelines to construction and project management professionals
(owners, designers, consultants, construction managers, project
managers, supervisors, contractors, builders, developers, and many
others from the construction-related industry) involved in
construction projects (mainly civil construction projects,
commercial-A/E projects) and construction-related industries. It
covers the importance of construction management principles,
procedures, concepts, methods, and tools, and their applications to
various activities/components/subsystems of different phases of the
life cycle of a construction project. These applications will
improve the construction process in order to conveniently manage
the project and make the project most qualitative, competitive, and
economical. It also discuss the interaction and/or combination
among some of the activities/elements of management functions,
management processes, and their effective implementation and
applications that are essential throughout the life cycle of
project to conveniently manage the project. This handbook will:
Focus on the construction management system to manage construction
projects Include a number of figures and tables which will enhance
reader comprehension Provide all related topics/areas of
construction management Be of interest to all those involved in
construction management and project management Provide information
about Building Information Modeling (BIM), and ISO Certification in
Construction Industry Offer a chapter on Lean construction The
construction project life cycle phases and its
activities/elements/subsystems are comprehensively developed and
take into consideration Henri Fayol's Management Function concept
which was subsequently modified by Koontz and O'Don
The book is developed to provide significant information and
guidelines to construction and project management professionals
(owners, designers, consultants, construction managers, project
managers, supervisors, contractors, builders, developers, and many
others from the construction-related industry) involved in
construction projects (mainly civil construction projects,
commercial-A/E projects) and construction-related industries. It
covers the importance of construction management principles,
procedures, concepts, methods, and tools, and their applications to
various activities/components/subsystems of different phases of the
life cycle of a construction project. These applications will
improve the construction process in order to conveniently manage
the project and make the project most qualitative, competitive, and
economical. It also discuss the interaction and/or combination
among some of the activities/elements of management functions,
management processes, and their effective implementation and
applications that are essential throughout the life cycle of
project to conveniently manage the project. This handbook will:
Focus on the construction management system to manage construction
projects Include a number of figures and tables which will enhance
reader comprehension Provide all related topics/areas of
construction management Be of interest to all those involved in
construction management and project management Provide information
about Building Information Modeling (BIM), and ISO Certification in
Construction Industry Offer a chapter on Lean construction The
construction project life cycle phases and its
activities/elements/subsystems are comprehensively developed and
take into consideration Henri Fayol's Management Function concept
which was subsequently modified by Koontz and O'Donnel and
Management Processes Knowledge Areas described in PMBOK (R)
published by Project Management Institute (PMI). The information
available in the book will also prove valuable for
academics/instructors to provide construction management/project
management students with in-depth knowledge and guidelines followed
in the construction projects and familiarize them with construction
management practices.
The first edition published in 2010. The response was encouraging
and many people appreciated a book that was dedicated to quality
management in construction projects. Since it published, ISO 9000:
2008 has been revised and ISO 9000: 2015 has published. The new
edition will focus on risk-based thinking which must be considered
from the beginning and throughout the project life cycle. There are
quality-related topics such as Customer Relationship, Supplier
Management, Risk Management, Quality Audits, Tools for Construction
Projects, and Quality Management that were not covered in the first
edition. Furthermore, some figures and tables needed to be updated
to make the book more comprehensive.
Dealing with such a multi-layered and fungible intangible as
quality during the design and construction process is difficult for
all parties involved. To the architect, quality means an appealing
and enduring design, but to the builder, it means understandable
documents that, when acted upon, lead to an enduring, well-made
structure. To the owner, it is the end result: a building that is
not only fit for the purpose, but a positive addition to its
surroundings. Reconciling these seemingly contrasting priorities
requires processes that are embedded not just at the project level,
but within the entire enterprise with designer, builder, and owner
committed to integrating quality into all their business processes.
Quality Tools for Managing Construction Projects not only details
the importance of developing a comprehensive management system, but
provides the tools and techniques required to do so. The book
examines the usage and applications of tools and techniques in
different phases of a construction project, focusing on plan
quality, quality assurance, and quality control. Following the
construction cycle, Dr. Rumane delineates the quality tools and
their application, ending with the implementation of quality
systems throughout the entire design and construction cycle. The
book demonstrates how these tools can help in planning, executing,
monitoring, and controlling a project-evolving project management
into a system that ensures project deliverables consistently meet
the defined scope on schedule and within budget. The author's
systems perspective recognizes and supports the ideal collaborative
approach that modern design and construction projects need. Dr.
Rumane then demonstrates that successful quality management is more
than a series of handoffs between teams who've completed tasks.
This book provides construction professionals, designers,
contractors and quality auditors involved in construction projects
with the auditing skills and processes required to improve
construction quality and make their projects more competitive and
economical. The processes within the book focus on auditing
compliance to ISO, corporate quality management systems, project
specific quality management systems, contract management,
regulatory authorities' requirements, safety, and environmental
considerations. The book is divided into seven chapters and each
chapter is divided into numbered sections covering auditing-related
topics that have importance or relevance for understanding quality
auditing concepts for construction projects. No other book covers
construction quality auditing in such detail and with this level of
practical application. It is an essential guide for construction
and quality professionals, but also for students and academics
interested in learning about quality auditing in construction
projects.
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