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History and Basic Concepts | |
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Bridges and History | |
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Historical Perspective | |
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Great Captains of Construction | |
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Panama Canal | |
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Other Historic Projects | |
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Construction versus Manufacturing Processes | |
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Project Format | |
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Project Development | |
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Construction Technology and Construction Management | |
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Construction Management Is Resource Driven | |
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Construction Industry | |
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Structure of the Construction Industry | |
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Differing Approaches to Industry Breakdown | |
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Management Levels of Construction | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Preparing the Bid Package | |
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Online Plan Rooms | |
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Project Concept and Need | |
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Establishing Need | |
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Formal Need Evaluation | |
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Conceptual Drawings and Estimates | |
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Preliminary and Detail Design | |
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Notice To Bidders | |
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Bid Package | |
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General Conditions | |
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Supplementary Conditions | |
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Technical Specifications | |
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Addenda | |
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The Estimate and the Decision to Bid | |
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Prequalification | |
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Subcontractor and Vendor Quotations/Contracts | |
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Bid Bond | |
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Performance and Payments Bonds | |
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Cost and Requirements for Bonds | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Issues During Construction Phase | |
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Project Rework Reduction | |
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Acceptance Period/Withdrawal | |
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Award of Contract/Notice to Proceed | |
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Contract Agreement | |
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Time Extensions | |
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Change Orders | |
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Changed Conditions | |
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Value Engineering | |
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Suspension, Delay, or Interruption | |
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Liquidated Damages | |
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Progress Payments and Retainage | |
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Progress Reporting | |
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Acceptance and Final Payment | |
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Summary | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Construction Contracts | |
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Web-Based Contracts | |
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Contract Environment | |
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Process of Purchasing Construction | |
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Major Construction Contract Types | |
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Competitively Bid Contracts | |
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Stipulated-Sum Contracts | |
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Unit-Price Contracts | |
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Negotiated Contracts | |
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Project Delivery Methods | |
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Design-Build Contracts | |
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Design-Build in a Consortium Format | |
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Construction Management (CM) Contracts | |
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Construction Management At-Risk | |
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Comparing Project Delivery Methods | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Legal Structure | |
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Joint Venturing | |
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Types of Organization | |
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Legal Structure | |
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Proprietorship | |
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Partnership | |
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Corporation | |
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Comparison of Legal Structures | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Impact of Taxes | |
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Introduction | |
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Why Taxes? | |
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Types of taxes | |
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Income Tax Systems | |
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Taxation of Businesses | |
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Business Deductions in General | |
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Taxable income: individuals | |
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Itemized deductions, standard deductions and personal exemptions | |
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The Tax Significance of Depreciation | |
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Marginal Tax Rates | |
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Tax credits | |
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Tax payroll Withholding | |
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Tax payment schedules | |
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Marginal, average and effective tax rates | |
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Net Operating Losses | |
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Summary | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Project Planning | |
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Building Information Modeling | |
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Introduction | |
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Developing the Work Breakdown Structure | |
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A Work Breakdown Example | |
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Work Packages for the Gas Station Project | |
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Determining Sequence of Work Packages | |
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Estimate Development and Cost Control Related to the WBS | |
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Role of Code of Accounts | |
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Summary | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Project Scheduling | |
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4D Modeling | |
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Introduction | |
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Estimating activity durations | |
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Bar charts | |
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Activity Precedence Diagrams | |
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Generalized relationships | |
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Overview of the CPM scheduling procedure | |
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Forward Pass (traditional relationships) | |
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Backward Pass (traditional relationships) | |
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Critical path | |
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Activity floats | |
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Scheduling the Small Garage project | |
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Generalized Relationship Scheduling Computations | |
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Working to Calendar Dates | |
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Summary | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Scheduling - PERT Networks and Linear Operations | |
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Lean Construction | |
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Introduction | |
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An Example PERT Network | |
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PERT Shortcomings | |
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Linear Construction Operations | |
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Production Curves | |
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Line-Of-Balance Concepts | |
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LOB Applied to Construction | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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The Mathematics of Money | |
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Using Life Cycle Cost to Assess Sustainable Construction Costs | |
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Introduction | |
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Interest in Action | |
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Time value of money | |
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Interest | |
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Simple and compound interest | |
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Nominal and effective rate | |
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Equivalence and MARR | |
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Discount Rate | |
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Importance of Equivalence | |
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Sunk Costs | |
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Cash flow diagrams | |
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Annuities | |
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Conditions for Annuity Calculations | |
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Calculating the Future Value of a Series of Payments | |
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Summary of equivalence formulas | |
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Worth Analysis Techniques: An Overview | |
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Present Worth Analysis | |
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Equivalent Annual Worth (EAW) | |
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Internal Rate of Return | |
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Limitations of the IRR method | |
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A Practical Example Using PW Analysis | |
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Comparison Using EAW | |
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Summing Up | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Project Cash Flow | |
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Scenario Testing | |
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Cash Flow Projection | |
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Cash Flow to the Contractor | |
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Overdraft Requirements | |
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Comparison of Payment Schemes | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Project Funding | |
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Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) | |
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Money, A Basic Resource | |
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Construction Financing Process | |
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Long-Term Pro Forma Example | |
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Mortgage Loan Commitment | |
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Construction Loan | |
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Owner Financing Using Bonds | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Equipment Ownership | |
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RFID Application in Construction | |
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General | |
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Equipment Owning and Operating Costs | |
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Depreciation of Equipment | |
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Straight-Line Method | |
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Declining Balance | |
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Production Method | |
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Depreciation Based On Current Law | |
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Depreciation Versus Amortization | |
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Interest, Insurance, and Tax (IIT) Costs | |
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Operating Costs | |
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Overhead and Markup | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Equipment Productivity | |
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Laser Based Machine Control | |
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Productivity Concepts | |
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Cycle Time and Power Requirements | |
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Power Available | |
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Usable Power | |
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Equipment Balance | |
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Random Work Task Durations | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Construction Labor | |
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Biometric Identification Recognition | |
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Labor Resource | |
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Short History of Labor Organizations | |
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Early Labor Legislation | |
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Norris-Laguardia Act | |
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Davis-Bacon Act | |
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National Labor Relations Act | |
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Fair Labor Standards Act | |
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Union Growth | |
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Labor Management Relations Act | |
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Other Labor Legislation | |
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Vertical Versus Horizontal Labor Organization Structure | |
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Jurisdictional Disputes | |
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Union Structure | |
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National Unions | |
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State Federations and City Centrals | |
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Union Locals | |
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Union Hiring Halls | |
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Secondary Boycotts | |
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Open-Shop and Double-Breasted Operations | |
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Labor Agreements | |
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Labor Costs | |
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Average Hourly Cost Calculation | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Estimating Process | |
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Estimating Using Hand-Held Devices | |
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Estimating Construction Costs | |
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Types of Estimates | |
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Detailed Estimate Preparation | |
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Definition of Cost Centers | |
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Quantity Takeoff | |
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Methods of Detailed Cost Determination | |
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Problems with Unit-Cost Method | |
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Resource Enumeration | |
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Work Package or Assembly-Based Estimating | |
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Summary | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Cost Control | |
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LEED Certification | |
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Cost Control as a Management Tool | |
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Project Cost Control Systems | |
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Cost Accounts | |
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Cost Coding Systems | |
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Project Cost Code Structure | |
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Cost Accounts for Integrated Project Management | |
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Earned Value Method | |
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Labor Cost Data Collection | |
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Charges for Indirect and Overhead Expense | |
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Project Indirect Costs | |
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Fixed Overhead | |
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Considerations in Establishing Fixed Overhead | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Materials Management | |
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Fiber Reinforced Polymer Rebar | |
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Material Management Process | |
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The Order | |
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Approval Process | |
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Fabrication and Delivery Process | |
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Installation Process | |
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Material Types | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |
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Safety | |
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Safety in Trenches | |
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Need for Safe Practice | |
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Humanitarian Concerns | |
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Economic Costs and Benefits | |
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Uninsured Accident Costs | |
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Federal Legislation And Regulation | |
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OSHA Requirements | |
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How the Law Is Applied | |
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Safety Record Keeping | |
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Safety Program | |
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Review Questions and Exercises | |