[PDF] Construction Equipment Management for Engineers Estimators and Owners

Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners by Douglas D. Gransberg, Calin M. Popescu, and Richard C. Ryan PDF Free Download

Authors of Construction Equipment Management for Engineers

Douglas D. Gransberg is the Sam Okay. Viersen, Jr. presidential professor of development science on the College of Oklahoma. He acquired each his B.S. and M.S. levels in Civil Engineering from Oregon State College and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the College of Colorado at Boulder.

He’s a registered skilled engineer in Oklahoma, Texas, and Oregon, a licensed price engineer, a delegated design-build skilled, and a chartered surveyor by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors within the U.Okay.

Earlier than transferring to academia in 1994, Professor Gransberg spent over 20 years within the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers.

He additionally owns lively development administration consulting follow, with many consumers from the general public sector, such because the Federal Freeway Administration, Naval Services Engineering Command, U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth, transit authorities in New York Metropolis and Washington, D.C., and the Montana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington State Departments of Transportation.

Professor Granberg has taught persevering with skilled training seminars throughout the nation within the space of design-build contracting, architect-engineer design contracting, and price engineering for the American Society of Civil Engineers for the previous 9 years.

He was appointed as an revolutionary contracting material professional for the Federal Freeway Administration’s Accelerated Expertise Switch Program in 2004. He has revealed greater than 60 journal articles and stories

Calin M. Popescu has a B.S. in engineering, an M.S. in engineering economics, and a Ph.D. in venture administration from the Construction Institute and Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania.

He’s a registered skilled engineer in Texas. Between 1958 and 1974, as a development/venture supervisor, he supervised quite a lot of giant development initiatives like accommodations, low-cost giant scale condominium buildings, energy crops, paper mills, and industrial complexes in Romania.

For 30 years ranging from 1974, he taught varied programs within the areas of development engineering and venture administration within the civil engineering division on the College of Texas at Austin. He has revealed extensively in refereed journals and convention proceedings and has authored/co-authored 8 books.

Dr. Popescu has made many shows at nationwide and worldwide skilled societies and taught many brief programs and seminars for the development trade.

Since 1982, he has been the proprietor and CEO of C&C Consultants, Inc., specializing in development disputes with nationwide and worldwide shoppers. He’s a founding member of the venture administration charters in Austin, Texas, and Bucharest, Romania

Richard C. Ryan is a professor of development science on the College of Oklahoma. He acquired his B.S. in constructing development and M.S. in development administration from Texas A&M College.

He’s a licensed skilled constructor and member of the American Institute of Constructors. Earlier than transferring to academia in 1990, Professor Ryan spent over 11 years as a accomplice in R&R Construction.

He continues to offer design session and constructing providers. He’s an lively program developer and teacher for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners’ Superintendent and Foremen Coaching packages. He has revealed over 30 journal articles and has contributed chapters to books.

Construction Equipment Management Contents

• Evolution of Heavy Construction Equipment
• Value of Proudly owning and Working Construction Equipment
• Equipment Life and Substitute Procedures
• Earthmoving, Excavating, and Lifting Equipment Choice
• Superior Strategies in Estimating and Optimizing Construction Equipment System Productiveness
• Stochastic Strategies for Estimating Productiveness
• Scheduling Equipment-Intensive Horizontal Construction Initiatives
• Scheduling Lifting Equipment for Vertical Construction
• The Purchase, Lease, or Hire Determination
• Construction Equipment Upkeep
• Construction Equipment Website Security
• Construction Equipment Safety
• Stock Procedures and Practices

Preface to Construction Equipment Management for Engineers

Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners is meant to be a reference e book for development venture managers, estimators, development gear fleet managers, and skilled engineers.

The e book additionally incorporates data related to each the general public and personal sectors. It incorporates a substantial amount of ‘‘hands-on, how-to’’ details about gear administration based mostly on the authors’ private development experiences all through the world.

It’s written as a information for people who have to estimate the price of gear on a given venture and shouldn’t have knowledge at their fingertips as a result of their routine enterprise doesn’t contain a whole lot of equipment-related development.

The authors additionally hope that their e book might be helpful to the general public company gear supervisor whose want is to reduce gear prices somewhat than to maximise the revenue earned by the gear.

The e book is helpful to all events within the structure, engineering, and development industries in addition to to venture homeowners.

The primary chapter describes the evolution of development gear and serves to set the stage for the next chapters that present particular up-to-date data on the state of artwork within the space.

The chapters on estimating gear possession and working prices and figuring out financial life and alternative coverage might be of nice worth to development estimators. The chapters on figuring out the optimum combine of apparatus and estimating the gear productiveness present the estimator the way to maximize the revenue of an equipment-intensive development venture.

The chapter on scheduling demonstrates the way to convert a linear schedule right into a priority diagram for use in a venture that has a mandated scheduling methodology.

This data has not been revealed earlier than to one of the best of our data and demonstrates to the gear supervisor how to make sure that a production-driven, equipment-intensive venture could be scheduled to attain goal manufacturing charges and therefore goal equipment-related unit prices and earnings.

The e book additionally reveals managers and engineers on the way to keep away from making pricey widespread errors throughout venture gear choice.

It incorporates a matrix that can assist the novice gear supervisor choose the right piece of apparatus based mostly on the necessities of the venture.

It is stuffed with detailed examples of the forms of calculations made to permit each public and personal equipment-owning organizations to find out an optimum gear utilization plan for any venture no matter their ranges of expertise.

Lastly, the gear security chapter describes the way to develop an Occupational Security and Well being Administration (OSHA) job security evaluation for an equipment-intensive venture, thus making this onerous and important activity simpler for the gear supervisor.

This e book is the brainchild of Dr. Calin Popescu of the College of Texas and flows from an early work undertaken to help his graduate civil engineering class in development gear administration.

Dr. Popescu’s focus was on gear used for heavy-civil initiatives. Professor Richard Ryan of the College of Oklahoma blended a lot of his work on managing development gear in constructing development for his development science undergraduate class on development gear into Dr. Popescu’s define to supply a reference that for the primary time treats each horizontal and vertical development initiatives.

Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners PDF

Author(s): Douglas D. Gransberg, Calin M. Popescu, Richard Ryan

Series: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Year: 2006

ISBN: 0-8493-4037-3

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