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Construction equipment management for engineers, estimators, and owners

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Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners is intended to be
a reference book for construction project managers, estimators, construction equipment fleet
managers, and professional engineers. The book also contains information relevant to both
the public and private sectors. It contains a great deal of ‘‘hands-on, how-to’’ information
about equipment management based on the authors’ personal construction experiences
throughout the world. It is written as a guide for individuals who need to estimate the cost
of equipment on a given project and do not have data at their fingertips because their routine
business does not involve a lot of equipment-related construction. The authors also hope that
their book will be useful to the public agency equipment manager whose need is to minimize
equipment costs rather than to maximize the profit earned by the equipment.

The book is useful to all parties in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries
as well as to project owners. The first chapter describes the evolution of construction
equipment and serves to set the stage for the following chapters that provide specific up-todate
information on the state of art in the area. The chapters on estimating equipment
ownership and operating costs and determining economic life and replacement policy will
be of great value to construction estimators. The chapters on determining the optimum mix of
equipment and estimating the equipment productivity show the estimator how to maximize
the profit of an equipment-intensive construction project. The chapter on scheduling demonstrates
how to convert a linear schedule into a precedence diagram for use in a project that has
a mandated scheduling methodology. This information has not been published before to the
best of our knowledge and demonstrates to the equipment manager how to ensure that a
production-driven, equipment-intensive project can be scheduled to achieve target production
rates and hence target equipment-related unit costs and profits.

The book also shows managers and engineers how to avoid making costly common
mistakes during project equipment selection. It contains a matrix that will help the novice
equipment manager select the proper piece of equipment based on the requirements of the
project. It is full of detailed examples of the types of calculations made to allow both public
and private equipment-owning organizations to determine an optimum equipment utilization
plan for any project regardless of their levels of experience. Finally, the equipment safety
chapter describes how to develop an Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) job safety analysis for an equipment-intensive project, thus making this onerous
and essential task easier for the equipment manager.

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Judul Seri

Civil and environmental engineering ; 21

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

London : Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., 2006

Deskripsi Fisik

TA213.G68 - 624.068’2--dc22

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8493-4037-3

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

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Subjek

TEKNIK SIPIL

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