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Construction Methods and Management (7th Edition)

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If you are an excavation or foundation SUB this may be quite helpful, particularly for road building. I found much of the info on ability and capacities of equipment:loaders, cranes, scrapers; concrete and aggregate production, paving, interesting but not info I need as a CM PM to build buildings in cities. If you want to know how to plan the construction of tall buildings, foundation planning, scheduling, staging, etc. don't look to this book. "Construction Mgmt.", which touched lightly on my interest, starts on page 479 of a 550 page book. This book is simply inaccurately titled.

We used this book for our construction equipment and methods class along with the CAT performace manual, and together, I thought they complimented each other quite well. This book is great because it touches on the basics of earthwork and excavation and gets you ready for courses in estimating, scheduling and cost control. I enjoyed using this textbook because the questions make you analyze construction problems from many different angles and not just look from a "here's the problem, here's the answer" point-of-view. *All in all, I would have to say that this a very good and useful textbook.* -M.

This book is a basic introductory text to the construction industy, focusing on earth moving operations, water pumping operations, and finally on physical construction methods.

Unfortunately, a lot of the examples in this book contain numerical errors. For example, many of the examples contain references to data tables, and data from those tables is utilised for the analysis. Often, the examples use data entries that are obviously wrong, and thus invalidate the rest of the example, forcing the student to rework the example. This can be found throughout the book, but luckily the examples aren't too hard to rework.

For anyone interested in the construction industry, I don't recommend you buy this book. Getting out on site is the best learning experience. You should only buy this book if you need to (eg, for an undergraduate university subject) and then sell if off at the conclusion of the subject.

I purchased this book for my required class and I have worshiped this book. This book gives lots of technical information and example calculations on a wide range of construction tasks. The book offers many examples that are on the PE exam. The book is an excellent source of reference for construction managers, contractors and engineers. I have an earlier edition of this book but I feel that this edition has enhanced illustrations and better step by step calculation examples. I will keep this book forever and if you purchase it I guarantee you will do the same.

This book has plenty of knowledge in it, however when it comes to identifying step by step math estimating processes it is very lacking. Trying to use this textbook during homework assignments have made me extremely frustrated. It will omit steps, thinking you know them. This textbook definitely needs a section that is strictly for formulas and conversions, not just some either, but all the different formulas that may be encountered within the textbook including the review questions. Not everyone has access or in their possesion the references that are mentioned either. Not to mention to gain all those references, one may go broke just purchasing all of them. Also, the book is very hard to read. It jumps into case studies mid paragraph and doesn't exactly answer a question you're trying to get answered. The index is the worst. Most traditional indexes give a great idea where alot of items or subjects in their books, this one doesn't. You can look up one word, and yes it may have it in a section of the book, but it won't tell you all the sections it may come up in the book.

this book came quickly and it was in the condition i expected. pleasure doing business with you.