No comments about Synchronizing Geometry: Landscape, Architecture & Construction / Ideographic Resources.

2 comments about Construction Contract Administration.

1. This book will function as an excellent cookbook on industrial construction contract administration. Contract language, field notices, change orders, scheduling, etc. are all covered in great detail with easy to follow fill in the blanks forms. This book is a "must have" for plant managers, plant purchasing agents, plant engineers, and construction company managers and supervisors. It is focused on the latest non-computer based communication systems and will work well in most industrial construction settings.

   While not directly geared to commercial, and highway and heavy construction, it has lessons presented that will clearly apply to these other construction situations. This book is well-worth the price.




2. This book was written as a useful guide and reference to help Owner and Contractor personnel, students, and others associated with privately awarded construction contracts to achieve the often elusive goal of completing their contracts successfully (safely, on time, within the budget, meeting design limits, and with no unresolved claims).

   The author has worked with Owners and Contractors over the past 50 years in offshore and domestic mining, process, refinery, smelter, petro-chemical, and environmental improvement, reclamation, and remediation facilities in the fields of engineering, operations, maintenance, design, estimating, construction, startup and shakedown, and claims resolution.

   Contents are presented in three parts. Part one addresses the identification, selection, production, and assembly of the many elements required to produce bid packages, qualify and select bidders, and award construction contracts. Part two reviews the requirements for a reasonable, fair, practical, logical, and orderly contract administration system based on the sample bid package included in appendix B. Part three presents four case studies of construction project contracts that have difficulties; hopefully readers may use them to recognize and correct potential problem areas in their own contracts before they become claims. Some of the latest advances in information technology that can be used for construction contract management applications are also identified and discussed in part three.

   Appendix A, Checklist for Processing from Start to Start-up, by Lester F. Engle, and first published in Mining Engineering magazine in May of 1966, presents an excellent checklist of items that must be considered or accomplished when preparing, writing, and awarding, contracts right through the construction, acceptance, and start-up phases.

   Charles S. Phillips, P.E.

No comments about Architect's Essentials of Winning Proposals (The Architect's Essentials of Professional Practice).

No comments about Office Development Handbook (Development Handbook series).

1 comments about Design Office Management Handbook.

1. Recognizing that architects and designers tend to be flow thinkers -- persons fully emersed in the specific challenge they are facing but somewhat cavalier about details that don't directly relate to solving the challenge at hand -- Fred Stitt set out to research and document a systematic way to approach the general details and day-to-day issues design offices face. His work on systems drafting was groundbreaking back in the 1980s, and more recently Stitt has turned his attention to ecological design.
   
   Here, Stitt provides a wonderful source of information and advice on how to approach the many issues that the owner/director/manager of a design office faces day to day. None of this stuff is taught in any architecture program I know of. In fact, most architects and design professionals have never taken a business course. Stitt provides thoughtful analysis of the particular problems design-minded folk face in running an office and managing clients, and provides a systematic way to approach those problems. An excellent resource!

1 comments about Engineering Project Management.

1. The book is by far the best project management book so far! It can be recommended to all students and professionals, and gives a broad view and deep insight into the difficult aspects of project management

No comments about Multifamily Housing Development Handbook (Development Handbook series).

1 comments about Architecture In Detail.

1. Architecture in detail is a collection of recent construction projects. This book have 180 pages in full color that explains the structure of each project with detailed drawings, and his own project planning, and a section.
   The book is very useful reference for an architecture student and for an architecture professional..
   I love this book!!

1 comments about Modeling Messages: The Architect and the Model.

1. As long as there have been architects, they have been using models to help design buildings, sell projects and instruct builders. "Modeling Messages" is a comprehensive study of the many facets architectural model making. Karen Moon starts by examing the history of the architectural model from the Renaissance to the early Twenty First Century. She moves on to such varied topics as the relationship between architect and model maker, architectural model as fine art and the changing role of high technology in the modeling process.
   
   If you are looking for a text book on how to build architectural models, this book is not for you. However, if you want to learn more about the model builder's craft and see some beautifully photographed models, this book is a must purchase. "Modeling Messages" is a high quality art book and it is one of those books that I will be reading for pleasure for many years to come. Highly recommended.

No comments about Remaking the Urban Waterfront.