Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners
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Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners

  1. 504 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners

About this book

Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Construction Managers, Second Edition has been extensively rewritten to not only bring it up to date with the state of current practice, but also to serve as a textbook for university courses in construction engineering and management.

The authors advanced the previous edition's practical, hands-on approach and added material on the future of construction equipment fleet management, which they believe will require a new technology-based skillset to maximize the cost-effectiveness of construction equipment operations. As such, the book covers the latest construction equipment technologies.

Features:

  • Examines emergent technologies in the field, including automated machine guidance systems, intelligent compaction operations, and equipment-related civil integrated management tools.

  • Provides information on how to reduce an equipment fleet's environmental impact, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions through enhanced equipment management and optimization practices.

  • Discusses estimating equipment ownership, operating costs, economic life and optimal replacement timing.

  • Demonstrates how to maximize profit by determining the optimum equipment mix and estimating productivity.

  • Illustrates the use of production-based linear scheduling and stochastic simulations to maximize project cost and schedule certainty.

This new edition will serve as an essential textbook for students as well as a valuable reference for a wide range of professionals within the construction, architecture, and engineering industries.

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Yes, you can access Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Owners by Douglas D. Gransberg,Jorge A. Rueda,Jorge A. Rueda- Benavides in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Operations. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Author Biographies
  9. Chapter 1. The Fundamentals of Construction Equipment Management
  10. Chapter 2. Cost of Owning and Operating Construction Equipment
  11. Chapter 3. Equipment Life and Replacement Procedures
  12. Chapter 4. Earthmoving, Excavating, and Lifting Equipment Selection
  13. Chapter 5. Estimating Construction Equipment Productivity
  14. Chapter 6. Stochastic Methods for Estimating Productivity
  15. Chapter 7. Scheduling Equipment-Intensive Horizontal Construction Projects
  16. Chapter 8. The Buy, Lease, or Rent Decision
  17. Chapter 9. Sustainability in Equipment Fleet Management
  18. Chapter 10. Construction Equipment Automated Machine Guidance Systems
  19. Chapter 11. The Future of Construction Equipment Management
  20. Appendix A: Corps of Engineers Construction Equipment Ownership and Operating Expense Schedule
  21. Appendix B: Heavy Equipment Product Guides
  22. Appendix C: Estimating Equipment Costs Using Simulations and Stochastic Methods
  23. Index