Product Description: Construction Calculations is a manual that provides end users with a comprehensive guide for many of the formulas, mathematical vectors and conversion factors that are commonly encountered during the design and construction stages of a construction project...read more

Product Description: Step-by-step advice on making every construction job profitable and successful Covering every aspect of the job, from writing initial contracts to complying with OSHA regulations, this trusted resource outlines the essential tenets of project management including estimating, purchasing, and administration of the contract...read more

Product Description: Design-build is widely recognized as the most profitable method of project delivery for non-residential construction. Design-Build Project Delivery offers real-world examples and advice from a wide variety of industry experts on every aspect of design-build project delivery...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive checklist and forms book will improve building contractors' on-site business management techniques and organizational skills. All forms and checklists will also be available in customizable Word and PDF format from a website...read more

Product Description: This work contains a CD-ROM with dozens of forms, sample letters, and checklists! This is your one-stop resource for effective construction site supervision. As a construction superintendent, you know your job involves more than simply riding herd over a work crew and a site full of equipment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: * A daily diary to track day-to-day construction project activities-allowable to be used in court if necessary * New edition includes helpful hints, charts, quick reference tables, key standards and regulations, and checklists

Product Description: All-in-one sourcebook guides you through every phase of residential construction Find all the data you need to make any residential construction project run smoothly, efficiently, and economically in Residential Construction Databook...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bring every substructure project in on time and under budget Get fast access to the information you need for estimating, specifying, budgeting, and doing actual installations on all kinds of underground construction equipment and systems -- all in one handy source...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A one-stop resource for residential or commercial construction projects, Construction Building Envelope and Interior Finishes Databook gives you instant access to hundreds of tables, specifications, charts, diagrams, and illustrations covering materials and components most frequently used on a typical job...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A one-stop, fast-access sourcebook, MEP Databook packs the ôuse it nowö mechanical, electrical and plumbing data you need to plan projects, estimate costs and materials, install systems, find product specs, comply with building codes, and solve on-site problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Subcontractor's business success kit. Ready to take your subcontracting business over the top? Just follow the step-by-step techniques and procedures in Subcontractor's Operations Manual, by Sidney M. Levy. Here's everything you need to make your company more productive and profitable, including rock-solid advice for bidding on jobs, negotiating with general contractors, drawing up airtight contracts, scheduling work, dealing with change orders and more. What's more, you get a CD-ROM packed with nearly 40 reproducible business letters and forms you can use as is or easily customize. You'll see how to ask a general contractor to interpret specs...how to request a work inspection by the architect or engineer...even how to respond to an order to accelerate the work schedule. This business-building resource gives you the know-how to: *Win the contracts you need and want*Achieve bondability*Negotiate favorable terms*Prepare and stick to schedules*Handle claims and disputes*Deal with difficult general contractors*Develop marketing and business plans*Assemble design-build teams*Write effective business communications*And much more.

Product Description: Stay on top of construction details and procedures with the help of this illustrated data handbook. It offers fast access to hundreds of tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations, covering all the components of construction utilized at a typical job site...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One thing that mature, developing, or undeveloped nations have in common in today's global economy is the necessity to construct, repair, refurbish, and modernize their infrastructure. More and more governments are turning to the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) process to accomplish this expensive and enormously challenging task--allowing private developers to design, finance, construct, and operate revenue-producing public projects, and then turn them over to the community at the end of an agreed payback period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A manual of inspection procedures for various components of a construction project. Focused on excavation, substructures, superstructures, paving, transportation equipment, and electrical work, the book is divided into two sections; one dealing with construction procedural matters and the other dealing with technical matters...read more

Product Description: Japan's six largest construction companies are consistently ranked at the top of the most successful construction firms in the world. This text looks at the business and technical secrets that put them there. Using case studies, Sidney Levy investigates the methods of Kajima Corporation, Takenaka, Obayashi Corporation, Kumagai Gumi, Tasiai Corporation and Shimizu and uncovers their winning formulas...read more