Construction Project Administration
- Book Review,
by Edward R. Fisk
Book News, Inc.
Covers all information needed by design professionals, project managers, contract administrators, and resident engineers or inspectors, laying out steps for conducting on-site project administration. Contains chapters on areas including the project delivery system, resident inspection office responsibilities, documentation, construction laws and labor relations, meetings and negotiations, materials, claims and disputes, and project closeout. Includes chapter problems, sample forms, and b&w photos of building sites. Fisk is a construction consultant in Orange, CA, and teaches short courses for the University of California and the University of Washington. -- Copyright © 1999 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR All rights reserved Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Book Description
Drawing on the author's extensive experience in construction engineering, administration, and education, this reference addresses each of the principal contract administration duties in logical order—from the hands-on viewpoint of a resident engineer on a construction project. Takes a project team approach for improved job efficiency, outlining a construction team operation in which the administrator delegates to the greatest possible extent all those contract administration functions that can be more effectively done in the field. Updates all chapters to twenty-first century technology. Adds coverage on Electronic Project Administration. Revises coverage of construction scheduling, based on contributions from an acknowledged expert in that field. Explores the various relationships between parties involved in construction, offering guidance on what to say or do, and what not to say or do, to avoid the risk of claims. Provides filled-out examples of documentation forms recommended for construction administration. Includes the latest DOT and local standards specs and applications for city and county projects. Provides information to help managers promote on-the-job safety. Helps managers improve job efficiency with guide specs for specifying CPM. Ideal as a review for those preparing for certification exams, a reference for seasoned professionals, and a single-source primer for those new to construction.
Book Info
Covers all information needed by design professionals, project managers, contract administrators, and resident engineers or inspectors, laying out steps for conducting on-site project administration. Previous edition c2000.
Card catalog description
"The sixth edition of Construction Project Administration covers all the information that design professionals, project managers, contract administrators, and resident engineers or inspectors need to conduct effective on-site project administration, from the beginning of the project to its successful completion. By following this simple, logical approach, students and experienced project personnel can perform their jobs with confidence and reliability."--BOOK JACKET.
The publisher, Prentice-Hall Career & Technology
Unique in perspective, this text/reference addresses each of the principal contract administration duties -- in logical order -- from the hands-on viewpoint of a resident engineer on a construction project. It is ideal as a single-source primer for those new to construction, as a review for those preparing for certification exams, and as a reference for seasoned professionals.
From the Back Cover
Covering all the important business and legal aspects of construction management, this new edition of Construction Project Administration will prove an invaluable resource to owners, engineers, constructors, architects, and students. Some of the key features include: Coverage of computer application programs as a tool for project administration. Inclusion of a demonstration disk from Edgewater Industries to show computer applications. New charts, photos, and drawings to enhance the text discussion. Coverage of the new codes, regulations, and legal decisions to aid management decision-making. Added coverage of international business practice to reflect the globalization of the industry.
About the Author
Edward R. Fisk, PE, LS, is a construction consultant in Orange, California. He is a licensed civil and structural engineer, land surveyor, and licensed general contractor and holds licenses in 13 states where he has been involved on projects. Before becoming an independent consultant, he was president of Gleason, Peacock, & Fisk, Inc., of Brea, CA, construction consultants, vice president of Lawrance, Fisk, & McFarland, Inc., engineers, of Santa Barbara, CA, and vice president of Construction Services, for Wilsey & Ham, engineers. Prior to that he served as Corporate Director of Construction Management for J.M. Montgomery Engineers (now Montgomery-Watson), and VTN Consolidated, Inc., and was an Engineer and a Field Engineer for Bechtel Corp., Power Division. He has had extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. He is a Life Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and former chairman of its Construction Division, and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. He currently teaches short courses statewide for the University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies, and for the University of Washington, Engineering Professional Programs, Seattle. He also continues to lecture nationally and internationally for the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
The principal objective of this book is to provide those of us who are active in the construction industry with a single source of information that will help address the responsibilities and risks that we are likely to encounter. The book not only introduces students, design professionals, project managers, and owners to the special problems of construction, but also serves as a ready reference to experienced contract administrators and construction engineers as well. The first edition was addressed to students of construction management, on-site representatives, engineers, and inspectors to provide them with a ready source of information in preparing for the responsibilities they could expect to confront on modern construction projects. However, during the many seminars held by the author throughout the United States, Guam, Canada, Jamaica, and Mexico, and in the courses he teaches for the University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies; University of Washington, Seattle, Engineering Professional Programs; and the American Society of Civil Engineers, it became evident that the project managers, contract administrators, and other management personnel who worked with or exercised control over the on-site project representatives had special problems that also needed to be addressed if the project team concept was to be realized. Thus, the concept for the second edition was born: to bring together the office and field personnel and present them with a workable system for operating as an effective construction team. The third edition continued the concept of developing the project team approach, with the added consideration of claims avoidance methods to reduce claims losses. Each member of the project team needed to become intimately familiar with the principles of construction project administration. It was toward this end that the author strove to meet the particular needs of the project team in today's changing construction environment. A considerable amount of new material was added, and some of the chapters were reorganized for a more logical flow of information. Later editions provided the updating necessary to remain current with state-of-the-art techniques in construction and to add new material, including references to AIA, EJCDC, and FIDIC documents, so that the book can literally become a single source for most construction-phase activities. As a part of the continuing effort to stay abreast of the state of the art of the construction industry, and in recognition of the federal declaration to make the metric system (SI) the basic system of measurement in the United States and that federal agencies be required to use it exclusively, the fifth edition was updated to emphasize its-use and included supplementary information to assist civil and construction engineers in utilizing metric (SI) civil engineering units in construction. In addition, all of the original material was reviewed and updated, the subject of partnering was addressed, and the index was made more user friendly. The author is grateful to the many contributions made through the years since this book was first published. Contributors to previous editions included Julius (Jim) Calhoun, Esq., Asst. General Counsel for Montgomery-Watson in Pasadena, CA (ret.); Gary L. McFarland, PE, and Charles H. Lawrance, PE, President and Vice-President, respectively, of Lawrance, Fisk, & McFarland, Inc., of Santa Barbara, CA; Wendell Rigby, PE, former Senior Civil Engineer of the City of Thousand Oaks, CA; Harold Good, CPPO, Procurement Manager of the City of Palm Springs, CA; Albert Rodriguez, CPCU, ARM, President, Rodriguez Consulting Group, Inc., Jacksonville, FL; Robert Rubin, Esq., PE, of Postner & Rubin, Attorneys at Law, New York, NY; Joseph Litvin, Esq., PE, Attorney at Law, Dayton, OH; Arthur Schwartz, Esq., General Counsel for the National Society of Professional Engineers, Alexandria, VA; Robert Smith, Esq., PE, of Wickwire Gavin, PC of Madison, WI, General Counsel for the Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC); and the members of the EJCDC whose contributions to the tools of the contract administrator are without equal. The author extends his particular thanks and appreciation to Prof. David Bilbo, Texas A&M University; Prof. Randy Rapp, PE, CCE, of Southern Illinois University; and Prof. Wayne Reynolds, Eastern Kentucky University, for their careful, thorough review, corrections, and suggestions; to Donald Scarborough, President of Forward Associates, Ltd., of Novato, CA, for his valuable contributions to the updated chapters on CPM scheduling; to William W. Gurry, President of Wm. Gurry & Associates, Atlanta, GA, for his contributions on design-build contracts; and to the Associated General Contractors of America for their input on the concept of partnering. Special thanks and appreciation is offered to my daughter, Jacqueline, and to her son, John Stamp, PhD, who did most of the indexing for the sixth edition. Thanks also to my son, Edward, who provided all of the computer expertise, both editorially and in a support capacity, for the last three editions of this book.
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